"Bee Mystery Unsolved? Lead Investigator Had Connections to Pesticide Maker"
http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2010/10/bee_mystery_unsolved_lead_inve.html
In the 1970’s the media was in a panic over the coming extinction of the honey bee.
In the 1980’s the media was in a panic over the coming extinction of the honey bee.
In the 1990’s the media was in a panic over the coming extinction of the honey bee.
In the 2000’s the media was in a panic over the coming extinction of the honey bee.
Age has it’s benefits, as I can remeber all of the panic.
Now, please excuse me while I go have some toast and honey. Which, by the way, is as cheap and plentiful as it was in the 70’s, 80’s, 90’s, and the 00’s.
BY GOTHAMCITYBEES on 10/09/2010 at 8:27am
We know this man well, and he has been smeared for doing excellent work.
Fortune magazine was fed a set of libel, or the reporter did a smear job with actual malice towards a very reclusive non-public figure. Dr. Bromenshenk has worked tirelessly on the problems of bees for decades, and has not, nor has he any prospect, of getting rich from his work. He is a man of good character, and he has never been employed by Bayer on any basis. The conspiracy theory about Bayer is naive - when all of agriculture is beset with an ever-growing invasive species problem, the shrill screaming about pesticides in the face of clear evidence of invasives in all the dying hives, when detectable levels of systemic pesticides are only found in about 10% of the hives seems to be part of an effort to protect the forces of globalization, who profit massively while spreading pests and diseases via the invasive species they import along with your cheaply-made consumer goods. So, what's killing the bees? WalMart, the G20, and your flat-screen TV.
NY Mag should interview and DEFEND Dr. Bromenshenk's reputation.
BY NOBELWONKINOBIE on 10/09/2010 at 12:10pm
Hmm, write first, ask questions, do research later, or not. I agree with GOTHAMCITYBEES' remarks to which I would add that the degree to which this article is a lazy journalist's attempt to sell controversy without investing any first hand effort in researching the subject matter, not only makes the author guilty of spreading potentially libelous misinformation, but it represents the worst kind of shoddy, tabloid journalism. The question of whether Dr. Bromenshenk's paper is good science or not is never even looked into, much less answered. Nor are the credibility and motives of the original character assassin, Katherine Eban, examined. If this is the kind of "journalism" typically accepted at New York magazine I guess I'll have to look elsewhere.
There is a fungal disease of grasshoppers. It makes them crawl to the highest thing they can find, usually a grass seed head that is about 6 inches taller than the surrounding ones. Then the grasshopper attaches itself and then dies. The fungal spores are best disseminated from this lofty perch and infect other grasshoppers.
The article says the culprit is a virus and a fungus. What are you saying?
At the end of the day, the data show what they show, and who funded their collection doesn't matter.
Buuuut that’s just CRAZY! I mean, pesticides are totally safe because people connected to them say so!
Reminds me of hearing Pat & Stu on Glenn Beck’s radio show earlier today laughing their asses off at someone suggesting Glenn might be suffering health consequences from aspartame. How can conservatives selectively turn their brains off like that? We all agree that the government is steeped in corruption & backroom deals and the global warming farce has shown us that scientific ‘evidence’ can be fabricated on a vast scale.
But somehow, when it comes to pesticides, oh, you’d have to be CRAZY to think there’s anything amiss!
Finally. For years they’ve been blaming it on cell phones
I wonder if there is a way to turn this to killing off the Africanized bees but save the native bee.
>>a virus and a fungus<<
So it was Barak and Moochelle all along? Go figure!
I expect to see some of this when the Won loses in 2012.