Yes, but this isn't "science reporting". It's a single site, the Scottish Sunday Post, that reported on a single pre-print paper with a small data set from a si

Yes, but this isn't "science reporting". It's a single site, the Scottish Sunday Post, that reported on a single pre-print paper with a small data set from a single research group on a boat doing some sampling and analysis in the Caribbean. "Science reporting" is not analogous to "the police" since the police are a single entity. Let's leave aside, as we know from recent tragedies, that we know the police lie in the media frequently. But by the same standard, this is a problem of the general public confusing random publications in a Scottish newspaper as science reporting. Let me know when this happens in Nature. I don't think the science desks at the BBC or the NYTimes would have even published this, either. Those are the science media. Calling this science reporting is a category error.