The “agenda” is always about “power” and “control”. And there can be little confusion about that. The greens want to wrestle power from the individuals, the industries, and the agencies that they feel have too much power. They have learned that to gain power they have to control a population’s belief system. They carefully select their targets, then conceive and spread doomsday stories to sway public opinion in their direction. Their alliance with the teacher’s unions and the secular educational establishment allows them access to developing minds from toddlers through college grads. Their alliance with a willing mainstream media spreads their message to all corners of the globe. Their affiliation with certain political groups provides them opportunities to gain control through legislation. Those who disagree with their message are labeled “deniers” to somehow equate their disagreements to the skewed beliefs of Holocaust deniers and exclude them from the table. This undeclared war has little to do with clean water and clean air, much less mercury laden fish, which is the topic at hand to which I will now return.

Is acute mercury poisoning a bad thing? Definitely. Do modern testing methods allow humans to detect trace amounts of mercury better than in years past? Yes. Are fish the only source by which humans can be exposed to mercury? No, CFL’s and the preservative thimerosal are potential sources for daily exposure. Are coal fired power plants the only source for mercury in fish? Not even maybe. It is common knowledge that oil and natural gas constantly seep through the ocean floor at its deeper points, and both sources inject mercury naturally into the waters. Will winning this two-front war on coal and commercial fishing free mankind from the potential of being exposed to mercury (a naturally occurring element)? Only a fool would believe it possible.

I will concede that more research is necessary. However, to accept the results of research from “scientists” who manipulate the data to conform to the agendas of those who fund them is pointless. Sadly, even science has become politicized and proselytized.

The “agenda” is always about “power” and “control”. And there can be little confusion about that. The greens want to wrestle power from the individuals, the industries, and the agencies that they feel have too much power. They have learned that to gain power they have to control a population’s belief system. They carefully select their targets, then conceive and spread doomsday stories to sway public opinion in their direction. Their alliance with the teacher’s unions and the secular educational establishment allows them access to developing minds from toddlers through college grads. Their alliance with a willing mainstream media spreads their message to all corners of the globe. Their affiliation with certain political groups provides them opportunities to gain control through legislation. Those who disagree with their message are labeled “deniers” to somehow equate their disagreements to the skewed beliefs of Holocaust deniers and exclude them from the table. This undeclared war has little to do with clean water and clean air, much less mercury laden fish, which is the topic at hand to which I will now return.

Is acute mercury poisoning a bad thing? Definitely. Do modern testing methods allow humans to detect trace amounts of mercury better than in years past? Yes. Are fish the only source by which humans can be exposed to mercury? No, CFL’s and the preservative thimerosal are potential sources for daily exposure. Are coal fired power plants the only source for mercury in fish? Not even maybe. It is common knowledge that oil and natural gas constantly seep through the ocean floor at its deeper points, and both sources inject mercury naturally into the waters. Will winning this two-front war on coal and commercial fishing free mankind from the potential of being exposed to mercury (a naturally occurring element)? Only a fool would believe it possible.

I will concede that more research is necessary. However, to accept the results of research from “scientists” who manipulate the data to conform to the agendas of those who fund them is pointless. Sadly, even science has become politicized and proselytized.