Fire Retardants and Killer Whales....

WARNING - BLATANT JUNK SCIENCE ALERT...

Apparently, there are industrial fire retardants poisoning killer whales off the coast of British Columbia.

Shall we count the "Junk Science" indicators here folks?

- referring to 'detectable limits' of chemicals, without specific reference to data.
- no comment from a neutral government or regulatory official
- comment from not one but two activists (note - they did a good job at referencing the point that Peter Ross works for DFO - but he's categorized as an 'activist' here since he wrote the report in question)
- vague references to clean up plans without specific dates or organizations

And my two personal, albeit very subjective favourites -
a) it comes from the CBC, which is hardly a bastion of fair and balanced journalism, and
b) it's a story about those cute killer whales! Where's Keiko when you need him?

Oh yeah - that's right. Keiko finally died and they secretly buried his body so they could continue making money off his corpse in a few years. How could I forget...