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Beware of Facebook science
This letter was so good we wanted to share it here, before it gets archived forever. It appeared in the Chronicle-Herald newspaper in Halifax, Nova Scotia on Oct. 23, 2012. Beware of Facebook science I...
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The Cohen report: how the lawyers reacted
We missed something in our last post. Given that the bulk of the $26 million in tax dollars spent on the Cohen commission went to lawyers (not for salmon farmers, though, who paid their own legal...
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Is Morton bringing ISA back to BC?
People like Morton know the easiest way to manipulate people is through fear of the unknown. But is she willing to make her own prophecies come true, and at what cost? Is Alexandra Morton bringing the...
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A New Year’s resolution: think for yourself when it comes to salmon questions
The usual suspects behind the most irrational and emotional protests against salmon farms have set up yet another website to scare people into giving them money. As usual, the information they provide...
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Boycott lazy reporting
We had to weigh in on the “Salmon Feedlot Boycott” thing one more time. It’s amusing how East Coast media has reported on this as if it were a Real Thing, not even bothering to check the claims and...
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Sea lice study adds to manufactured body of evidence
The following is a guest post by reader Bob Milne, who is writing in response to a study published in November 2012. Thanks Bob, for submitting this and for allowing us to share it, with a few silly...
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One of the greatest threats known to the living world
Today, Alexandra Morton wrote the following passage with all seriousness. … While the governments of British Columbia and Canada turn a blind-eye, I believe the Norwegian salmon feedlots operating in...
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Lazy media ignores context in farmed salmon stories
It’s the media’s job to provide context, but when it comes to reporting on farmed salmon, they fail miserably. The latest example comes from Eastern Canada. While Canadian media was busy vilifying...
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Calcitonin salmon isn’t a salmon fillet, mmmkay?
We hope this will be a pre-emptive strike on the inevitable flurry of nonsense from farmed salmon-haters out there who seize on anything (without reading it properly) to bash their favourite strawman....
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Periodic Table of Irrational Nonsense
We came across this while reading our favourite blogs and think it deserves to be shared here. Can you figure out where our favourite anti-salmon farming activists fit in? Click to view the table full...
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Step right up and spin the wheel of fish!
Wheel… of… FISH! Our favourite anti-salmon farming activist is now trying to suggest that the VHS virus, which has been killing wild fish for millions of years and which was observed long before salmon...
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Morbo says: VIRUS TESTING DOES NOT WORK THAT WAY
In the ridiculous apologetics activists and their supporters use to explain why they are right in claiming ISA virus is in BC, one particularly odious claim keeps popping up. This screed from Twyla...
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Why Kibenge’s lab lost its “reference” status
We made reference to this in our blog post yesterday, but today we realize we have never published this with any context. Here’s the full story. Earlier this year Dr. Fred Kibenge’s lab at the...
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Activist math, contaminants and the art of fear
We’ve been sitting on this one for a while because we wanted to see how far it would go. Apparently, our favourite scaremongerer is pretty serious about it so we figured it was time to expose this. In...
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Custom keyboards for anti-salmon aquaculture activists, coming soon!
We are going to be setting up an Etsy shop soon to sell these custom, hand-made keyboards that will make life a little bit easier for all those anti-aquaculture keyboard warriors out there. Here’s a...
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Activist Alexandra Morton lies on national TV
CBS’ famous 60 Minutes program recently aired several segments about salmon farming, and they were actually pretty fair. The show was a generally fair representation of salmon farming in BC. I...
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Activist Alexandra Morton makes her lie even bigger
It would appear I touched a nerve with this post last week. Annoyed by being caught in a lie, Alexandra Morton mobilized her followers to copy-paste this in the comments section: I don’t generally...
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No Fukushima radiation health risk from Canadian fish
A new study published this spring shows that there is no radioactive material from Fukushima in salmon and groundfish. None of the fish samples analysed in this study contained any detectable levels of...
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Morton attack on Grieg Seafood is unintentionally hilarious
Thanks for the laugh today, Alexandra Morton. Her latest blog post, written in the style of a mystery / spy story, contained this gem: We observed a smelly slick of fish oil seeping from the pens. A...
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New salmon aquaculture-bashing film looks like it’s gonna be a humdinger of a...
There are a lot of films we would like to see made. Like “Guardians of the Galaxy 2″, or “Ernest Goes to Hell” (RIP Jim Varney). On a more serious, latte-sipping intelligentsia-wanna-be note, there...
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