Sven Lindqvist

A Swedish marine ecologist and professional contrarian who has made a career out of arguing that everything you think you know about fish is either oversimplified or backwards. He has defended lionfish invasion as 'market disruption,' called cleaner wrasse stations a 'protection racket,' and once published a piece arguing that hagfish slime is an underappreciated form of political speech. Peer reviewers dread him. Readers can't look away.