The Desperate Human Fad of Seeing Fads Everywhere

In the last week, a few articles have made the rounds, trying to whip up intrigue and a bit of fun around a supremely thin anecdote in marine biology circles.

And I get it, I do.

You can tell how desperate we are for a pleasant diversion when you read stories like this latest, which claims that orcas have rebooted a “fad” from four decades ago, of wearing…