Phony Health Experts Continue Seafood Smear Campaign
(5/13/08) In another example of activist opportunism this Mother’s Day, Oceana commemorated the occasion by spreading paranoia about mercury levels in fish. In a special press release on Friday, the group’s...
TV Talking Heads Rarely Major In Math. Or Science.
(4/25/08) Bostonians who watch WBZ-TV News saw something last night that’s all too common in our national discussion about trace levels of mercury in tuna: a television reporter who can’t grasp...
Time to Eat More Fish
(4/10/08) When food cops and activists aren’t making us feel guilty about our food choices, they’re working hard to scare us away from foods they don’t want us to eat—including some...
Newsweek Smells Fishy
(4/8/08) Newsweek senior editor and science blogger Sharon Begley just can’t get enough of the politics of personal destruction and the food scare. Her hit piece on political operative Mark Penn...
Environmental Groups Join Nationwide Canned Tuna Promotion
(4/1/08) Acknowledging that they have unfairly targeted affordable fish in their campaigns, environmental wizards at Oceana, Greenpeace, and the Environmental Working Group announced their support this morning for a nationwide initiative...
Powerful New Salvo In The Fish Wars
(3/26/08) This just in from Harvard University: In an ongoing study of 341 mother-child pairs, women who ate the most fish during their pregnancies had children with the highest cognitive development...