You spend all that time and money on a PhD in entomology, youβve got to justify it somehow. How else are you gonna get that grant money to fund your entire career?
Headlines are meant to get attention and this one does that. What you're saying is absolutely true though. There's an incredible amount of weird and horrifying stuff that happens in the animal kingdom. Humans included...
Man, you gotta be careful with these things. The NIST is liable to see that and declare the βsingle cicada piss streamβ as the new unit of measurement to replace the already rather Victorian βinHgβ.