December 19, 2013
Junk science attack on processing plant gets its facts totally wrong
Salmon Farm Science, December 19, 2013
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 more than a few studies among them with spurious claims and questionable data — suggests that farmed salmon from Nootka Sound processed on Quadra Island are threatening wild salmon with sea lice and diseases coming out the processing plant’s effluent pipe.
But there are some serious flaws with this paper that suggest it should be retracted.
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