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Lie-SA, feelings and rubbish samples
This is one of the sockeye samples Rick Routledge and Alexandra Morton submitted for ISA virus testing. It’s a miracle this freezer-burnt rubbish was even testable, it’s barely useable as bait. Another...
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Salmon Confidential’s biggest fib
The 20-35 minute segment of the film reinforces earlier messages designed to dupe people who aren’t familiar with technical scientific testing procedures. Which is pretty much everyone. It also...
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The Character Assassination of Simon Jones
EDITOR’S NOTE: This segment of the film is from an earlier version and does not appear in the latest version. Immediately after telling the biggest lie in the whole film, Salmon Confidential devolves...
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Filmmakers unwittingly disprove their own hypothesis
The next segment of the film begins with a Dr. Gary Marty (D.V.M., Ph.D., Diplomate, A.C.V.P.) stating that he is confident Infectious Salmon Anemia (ISA) virus is not present in BC. In some sort of...
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Deformities, more Lie-SA and ‘European viruses’
Here we get to what appears to be intended as the “turning point” of the film, where the plucky protagonists decide to “do something about it.” However, like the protagonist in the film “Memento,” the...
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Dead fish in the parking lot
In this section of the film (around the 53-minute mark) we witness a folksy Alexandra Morton cutting samples up on the ground of a parking lot outside a grocery store. Sampling in a parking lot grease...
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Who am I?
Most of the comments here lately are by people who complain this blog is anonymous. In response I have updated the “About” page. I expect this response will disappoint some people who are looking for a...
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The final 15, and the film’s second biggest fib
The final 15 minutes of the film are the most painful because they play fast and loose with the facts, while playing on people’s emotions, while ending with a veiled appeal for donations. It’s like the...
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Something fishy about ‘Salmon Confidential:’ another perspective
A great article showed up in my Google Alerts today, in which the author picks apart many of the film’s errors which I did not have time to address here. It’s well worth a read and provides another...
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Science blogger’s take on the film, my blog and Dr. Gary Marty
Stephen Bocking at Trent University blogs about environmental science, and recently did a post about the Salmon Confidential film. He followed up with some great information from Dr. Gary Marty about...
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