https://www.biv.com/article/2017/2/dfo-study-links-virus-heart-disease-farmed-fish/
PSF was sharing this on their Facebook page, but of course it's all just propaganda perpetrated by a "very rich and powerful" woman in Sointula with an agenda so it must be completely false and unfounded. The attacks on this woman are absurd. It's shows how she alone is a powerhouse and has put this issue at the forefront.
Attacks? So when she says something that isn't true and it's clearly pointed out as not being true then that is considered an attack? Sounds like how Trump surrogates behave when Trump's alternative facts are reported. The things that Morton said in my previous post are not true. It's not a hard exercise to go to the study to see where she deviates from the actual findings.
Have you read the study? What I'm quickly finding out is that many fish farm opponents have not read the study because when I read their posts their analysis does match up. If you feel that I have been unfair to her with her take on this study then feel free to show me how she come to those conclusions on PRV. Show me how the study has determined conclusively how PRV causes HSMI? Do you know the difference between speculation or hypothesis and fact?
She alone is a powerhouse? The real powerhouse are those UBC and Carlton grad students and DFO scientists that are conducting real science on this - not taking pictures off of a sailboat and blogging about her interactions, interpretations and speculation. If you had read the study you would have seen that going by clinical signs or increased mortality are not reliable indicators of an outbreak. So, Morton's observations on her sail boat trip last year were not reliable indicators of a disease outbreak or indicative of a specific disease. There's a little more to it and as the authors pointed out at the end it can be easily missed. Read page 25. This study had the luxury of following this one particular farm closely, gathering larger sample sizes (fish at various stages of condition) and were able to pick this up because the sampling was much more intensive over a long period of time. In addition, the technology to screen for these viruses is so much more advanced now then it was 10 years ago. Scientists like Miller can test many more fish samples over many different pathogens at one time.
The powerhouse is also those DFO technicians and biologists that collaborate with university academics to get this work done - working in all weather conditions and late at night. In reality, Morton is an outsider to this real science. She may get her name on the odd report lately to make it appear she is involved, but she is no where involved with the Strategic Fish Health Initiative or any of the current NSERC research being conducted by UBC and Carlton.....and that is a good thing.
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