Activist math, contaminants and the art of fear

January 31, 2014

Activist math, contaminants and the art of fear
 Salmon Farm Science, January 31

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 a poor attempt to scare people about food contamination, Alexandra Morton has created a graph that people might assume shows that farmed salmon is contaminated with PCBs.

Oooh, scary, right? Two things though...

To read the full blog at Salmon Farm Science, click here.