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Three articles shed a new light on the fish farm fuss. All three are published in The Financial Post, one of Canada's top newspapers.
- Packard's Push Against B.C. Salmon. This article looks at the $88 million dollar program funded by the David & Lucile Packard Foundation to prop up certain commercial fisheries, especially from Alaska, by swaying market share away from the competition, farmed fish. The "punching bag" is farmed salmon.
- David Suzuki's Fish Story. A look back at questionable studies about contaminants in farmed salmon and their worldwide media coverage that in hindsight, seems to me to have been part of a marketing campaign.
- The case of the missing sea lice. The story about the David Suzuki Foundation's lousy sea lice science and how the foundation quietly removed 16 press releases & web-pages about farmed salmon and salmon farming, on Feb. 3 & 4, 2010.
June 1st 2011, article Financial Post
Thank goodness you went after David Suzuki for appallingly sloppy science at best, and much worse at the worst.
The first rule in the practice of medicine is:
Primum non nocere (Do no harm).
It should be the first rule of all science. This Suzuki damnation of salmon farms, undoubtedly caused a lot of people to opt out of buying farm fish. Wouldn't it be interesting to do a study on just how much damage was done?
Now we have Germany admitting that it does not know whether the
e coli came from Spanish cucumbers in their recent outbreak!
Estimated damage to Spanish farmers $28,000,000 CAD per week (unconfirmed number)
All too many think scientists are without sin.
But, all too often they cannot resist the temptation of turning science into their own brand of scientology.
P.M.
Posted by: Peter Mullin | 06/01/2011 at 05:11 AM