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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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Alexandra Morton’s Furunculosis Fable
Alexandra Morton is a great storyteller. Whenever she tells her stories about salmon farming, she likes to use examples from her experience as semi-factual parables to illustrate her latest...
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A scientific look at the conspiracy-minded
Why do people believe the most ridiculous conspiracy theories? You know, theories like “it’s too hard for the government to manage wild salmon so they are letting salmon farms kill off wild fish...
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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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We are anonymous to fend off the wack jobs
Regularly, people like to come here and trash talk us for maintaining an anonymous blog. They ignore all the facts we present here — which are complete with links to back up everything we say — and...
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Bullies fear they’ll be ignored
Now this is an interesting turn of events. Dr. Craig Orr, who has made a career out of being a scientific gun-for-hire and media go-to guy for negative quotes about salmon farming, is complaining that...
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Alexandra Morton rewrites her own history
It seems Alexandra Morton, embarrassed by a particularly stupid comment she made back in February, has deleted the post from her blog and is now pretending she never said it. Morton is technically...
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Science? I don’t need no stinking science!
This was too precious not to share. Our friend over at Salmon Confidential Exposed brought it to our attention. Hopefully this person doesn’t make all her life decisions based on what she “just knows.”...
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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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Someone’s lying: an infographic, and putting it to a vote
Every time someone disagrees with Alexandra Morton, she adds them to her conspiracy theory. She honestly believes that BC salmon farmers have so much political influence that they have managed to...
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Standing up for science… which supports your opinion
This morning across Canada, the “Standing Up For Science” rallies are taking place. The rallies are organized by a group called “Evidence for Democracy,” an unnamed, faceless, self-described...
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Junk science attack on processing plant gets its facts totally wrong
Just because a study is peer-reviewed doesn’t necessarily mean it’s good science. Here’s a perfect example. A new paper published by John Volpe, Michael Price and Alexandra Morton — who have published...
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Seafood Watch flip-flop on farmed salmon clearly based on politics, not science
The Seafood Watch guide, holy grail of seafood guides, appears to be operating on some pretty sketchy double standards. The newly-revised guide was published this week, and it raises some big red...
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Yes, the CFIA CAN detect ISA virus HPR0
One of the favourite claims in Alexandra Morton and friends’ narrative about the ISA virus in farmed salmon is that the CFIA can’t detect it. Another one of their favourite claims is that the strain of...
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We’re back, baby, plus a thought about Neil Degrasse Tyson
After a nice two month summer vacay, we are ready to resume regular postings. We’ve got a gem from our favourite activist we can’t resist, and will be publishing it later today. But first, we want to...
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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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Lazy reporting, mean girls and plankton blooms
Linda Aylesworth of Global News took activist Alexandra Morton’s bait and ran a segment on TV about her recent attack on Grieg Seafood. Unfortunately, Aylesworth didn’t make any effort to fact-check...
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