It bothers me when reporting on evolution seems to attribute it to some invisible hand shaping the way populations change, or in this article making it seem lik

It bothers me when reporting on evolution seems to attribute it to some invisible hand shaping the way populations change, or in this article making it seem like the cockroaches have made some conscious decision as a group to stop eating sweet things. "They switched their internal chemistry around so that glucose, a form of sugar that is a sweet come-hither to countless forms of life, tastes bitter." Either the author of this article doesn't really understand how evolution works or they are poor at explaining the mechanism behind it. I think one of the reasons people grapple with the idea of evolution is because mainstream reporting on it is poor and uses confusing language to deal with the concepts behind it. Of course science reporting is generally quite poor but with evolution being such a battleground in some places I think it behoves people writing about it to present it clearly and precisely.