Fish Farm trouble in BC.

[agentaqua]

If you wish to throw names out on another member birdie - is your choice and your perception.

 

[Birdsnest]

Why part of "blindly parroting" isn't slight of hand name calling agent?

 

[spopadyn]

Generally liked & agreed w your post, Shuswap.

BUT - I think this claim thrown out there by the script writers employed by the BCSFA - and subsequently blindly parroted by industry defenders and promoters - including some at DFO - is quite misleading - as it was intended to be.

More samples absolutely DO NOT cause an increase in reported infection rates.

More samples may be required to accurately find a low prevalence rate in the wild population. Less samples (e.g. in the upper watershed above Hope) might mean they did not take enough to fins a low prevalence rate in the samples above Hope - not the other way around.

Ya - I'd like to see the BCSFA try to publish that in a scientific journal, GLG....

Well, back at you AA. I would like to see a real science journal publish the false test results by AM and decide the new negative retests are to be ignored. On one post you talk science and scientific veracity, on the next post you "parrot " false conclusions from pseudoscientists that the authors themselves hadn't made! How do you rationalize your method of science when rejecting or reviewing studies that disagree with your beliefs(by the way this is still okay to do) but then use an entirely different standard for those that do agree with you? GLG, maybe you can help AA understand how we need to use the same standards for all data and if we are to draw conclusions, whatever they may be, our bias cannot influence the data selection process?

 

[agentaqua]

So -" squirrel" on the statistical power debate, spopadyn?

 

[spopadyn]

So -" squirrel" on the statistical power debate, spopadyn?

What are you talking about? Just asking you to treat everything the same. Seems like people who provide scientific info that you don't like are somehow ignorant of not of your standard. So, use the old "squirrel" bully tactic, but how about you give us some science and maybe answer a question or two instead of deflecting. Can we get those AM quotes on the bad government science please.

 

[agentaqua]

So - instead of acknowledging the points about sample size - you instead decide to shift the focus and attack on Alex - both typical, expected and disappointing.

 

[Admin]

We have tried to keep this and other FF threads open by offering up warnings to keep the arguments, personal attacks, trolling etc. out of posts, but alas it always seems to degenerate to the point where no one even knows what either side is trying to prove anymore. And here's some more old news for you...neither "side" is going to be convinced that they are wrong or that "their" science is wrong, so this debate is always going to end in the school yard tactics listed above. Say goodbye to this one and expect a much shorter leash on any other related threads in the future.