Whale Meat, Mercury and Activist Science

Another case of a fake "crisis" based on bad science. Mercury Update: It’s (Still) The Whale Meat, Stupid... From ConsumerFreedom.com Mar 19, 2007 News flash: The global panic about mercury in fish can be traced back to a single scientific study whose participants got nearly all their dietary mercury from eating whale meat -- not fish. Hard to believe? Don't take our word for it. In this month's Environmental Health Perspectives journal, the author of that infamous study (fear-of-fish monger Philippe Grandjean) says so himself. FULL STORY... (By the way, cicadas seem to have safe levels of mercury.)