On 2008-01-31 04:33:54 -0800, Wilson > said:

> As to when did we first start knowing about mercury in our oceans, it
> takes about 30 years for almost any information that might mean a
> change in habits to fight its way up through the vested interests to
> where it becomes 'a noise on the streets.' It takes another 10 years
> after that for the noise to become 'a popular notion.'

Perhaps one of the ways it becomes news or noise is from newspaper
publications. Like the recent article in the NYTimes for instance. I
may indeed have been the last person in my state to know that there
were potentially harmful levels of mercury in MOST tuna, or conversely
that ther is not harmful levels of mercury in MOST tuna. I didn't know
either idea until the recent news reports--and rebutal of same--on this
story.

I don't claim to know which group is the liars and fabricators of "science".

So, again I'm not sure who the "we" is in "we all know" about mercury
in fish. That "we" doesn't include me. Now it does of course: I share
the non-knowledge of something involving mercury in our tuna, or not.
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