Recently the mega-bot syndicator MSN featured an article titled Health concerns surrounding this fish: What consumers need to know. It was a poorly sourced hit job on Tilapia apparently written by Zuzanna Sierzputowska. Also, known in the nutrition writers guild as… never heard of ya. 

The report appears to cite parts of a 16-year-old study that blossomed into a click bait campaign that once claimed the healthfulness of tilapia ranked up there with bacon, hamburgers, and doughnuts. Those exaggerated statements have been rebuked by the medical community as not only wrong but as potentially damaging to public health. 

The Washington Post even pondered; “Tilapia has a terrible reputation. Does it deserve it?” Its reporter concluding that consumers should, “give tilapia a chance.” 

We agree. And if you need more information about Tilapia try these resources: 

• Tilapia Nutrition + 9 Things You Need to Know About Tilapia 

• Tilapia: Eat Facts, Not Fiction 

• An Accurate Tilapia Tale 

Meanwhile, whatever human editors are even still employed at MSN need to get their fish together and stop circulating out of date, hyperbolic nonsense.