The mercury-warning-signs-on-seafood crowd has pulled a David Hasselhoff.

They’ve been shopping their alarmist rhetoric in the U.S. for years now. Despite the fact that doctors, dietitians, independent researchers, the courts and even the Federal government have told themexplicitlythat the “issue has been over stated.” Over stated or not still they persist with their quasi science and shrill theater; an act where they pretend to be motivated by concerns over public health and not environmental health- despite the fact that groups devoted to saving oceans and protecting turtles are the main force behind the movement.

Never has their message been taken as seriously as they’d like and now that the FDA has weighted in with an extensive peer-reviewed tome on the matter it would appear they’re feeling a little marginalized. So, like pop-singing sensation David Hasselhoff they’ve decided to take their show to Europe– wait, you didn’t know Hasselhoff was a pop-singing sensation. Well, you’re not alone because, like the mercury in fish alarmists, his act didn’t play very well in the U.S. It was kind of thin, even a little embarrassing and wasn’t taken seriously… so he went to Europe.

As the warning-sign-crusaders head to the EU to make a case, their arguments remain thin, their distortions a little embarrassing and the current state of science still does not take them seriously.