Two years after BP's Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, fishermen are finding deformed fish and mutant shrimp in their seafood catch:
Previously on Neatorama: Deepwater Horizon Oil Rig: The First 36 HoursAlong with collapsing fisheries, signs of malignant impact on the regional ecosystem are ominous: horribly mutated shrimp, fish with oozing sores, underdeveloped blue crabs lacking claws, eyeless crabs and shrimp - and interviewees' fingers point towards BP's oil pollution disaster as being the cause.
Tracy Kuhns and her husband Mike Roberts, commercial fishers from Barataria, Louisiana, are finding eyeless shrimp.
"At the height of the last white shrimp season, in September, one of our friends caught 400 pounds of these," Kuhns told Al Jazeera while showing a sample of the eyeless shrimp.
According to Kuhns, at least 50 per cent of the shrimp caught in that period in Barataria Bay, a popular shrimping area that was heavily impacted by BP's oil and dispersants, were eyeless. Kuhns added: "Disturbingly, not only do the shrimp lack eyes, they even lack eye sockets."
These people are obviously buzzing off their own confirmation bias. Stop harshing their mellow.
All news sources have a bias. If you don't recognize a particular bias, it just means you haven't discovered it yet. We also tend not to see a bias when a viewpoint is expressed that matches our own.
Do I think Al Jazeera is participating in a global conspiracy? Not that I know of. Do I think Al Jazeera would choose to air stories critical of Western oil production? I can see that. This is the first story I've noticed at Neatorama credited to Al Jazeera, and what's it about? Hmmm....
I see lots of stories from the Daily Mail or whatever it's called, and that source is questioned all the time (for good reason, I might add).
If you don't think it's sensible to consider the source of your news, don't sneer at those who do.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=_VVyPiV5xdY
One of the most unbiased news networks I've ever seen.