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One of the general principles of the SCP-verse is that it hates rules lawyers. If you try to get clever, things tend to react even worse. This is used in-universe as an explanation of why they "contain" rather than "destroy". One of my favorite examples, albeit a very old one now, is http://www.scpwiki.com/scp-145 .

Another really good example of that is SCP-1609: http://www.scpwiki.com/scp-1609

That Depends.

There may be classes of infovores and memetic cognitohazards which are not triggered by information so general that it does not assert the actual existence of any given entity.

As I recall, in one of the antimemetic stories they can (with some intentional effort) remember and describe what it isn’t: “It isn’t... round.”

I believe that was SCP-055

They aren't scientists doing research, they are cops keeping dangerous things in prison. Secure, contain, protect.