I get eaten by the worms… and weird fishes…

As you say in your first sentence, language is by consensus. And, the long-standing consensus among ichthyologists is to use exactly this terminology, and you’ll find it consistently across the scientific literature for generations now.

Sugar is worse.

And if you make enough spelling errors, your post essentially encrypts itself! :D

Even if it’s just an apocryphal story, it’s at least a crazy-interesting concept that I hadn’t even considered before.

This seems to bounce around the internet with no real legit source to back it up, and when it was posted to a certain website starting with R, there were comments from professionals indicating most of it was complete bullshit.

“Lead Safe Mama” is not a legit scientific source. Come on guys, this isn’t facebook, we can do better than this kind of low effort fear mongering.