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Saturday, April 26, 2003Anyway, it’s quite possible that the PCB level in whale meat was a confounding variable, but the authors of the Faroe Island study say that they controlled for that somehow and still found a decline in intellectual measurements. I’m sure the “control” involved stasticulating, but I didn’t mention it because it would have made the article a lot longer than it needed to be. Besides, there are a whole lot of other differences between whale and fish that can't be controlled for. Whale is fatter, for example. Whale is a mammal. Whales live longer, and is at the top of the ocean food chain, thus accumulating higher levels of all toxins than fish. And, according to this report, accumulate them they do: A 1998 study by the International Whaling Commission determined levels of contamination among some marine mammals are so high that the animals would be classified as hazardous waste sites if they were on land. If that doesn’t ruin your appetite for whale, I don’t know what will. posted by Sydney on 4/26/2003 07:50:00 AM 0 comments 0 Comments: |
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