Don't be scared of the vampire squid

I didn’t call the squid vegetarian. I made a joke about their diets being more like vegetarian Buddhists than blood sucking demons. But I didn’t call the squid vegetarian. In fact, I was intentionally avoiding doing that. I agree that the joke was misleading, so I cut it here. But you seem more upset about the fact that there was a joke, which, well, this is a different type of writing, for a different audience, than what the scientific community does. A joke doesn’t equal bad reporting.

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