For years environmentalists have been raising alarms about the “bee-pocalypse”-a supposed catastrophic decline in honeybee populations-and calling for an immediate ban of a new class of state-of-the-art “systemic” pesticides called neonicotinoids (“neonics” for short) which they blamed for the die-offs.
The media were all over the story, endlessly replaying the environmentalist meme that without bees to pollinate our crops, “one-third of every bite of food we eat” would disappear. Banning neonics and saving bees was tantamount to saving the world from starvation.
The real mystery in science is discovering which of the scientific truisms are fraudulent. The percentage is likely to be staggeringly high. The catastrophe of getting people to eat more carbs and less fat, has led to an epidemic of obesity and Diabetes Mellitus. Red meat is essential for good health, especially for pre-menopausal women. HRT (estrogen for women)has flipped flop as advice so many times in the past 30 years that I can no longer track it, nor care about it, anymore. We have gone from rigidly strict blood sugar control to a back pedaling to a much softer target. That’s just a brief snapshot. When I was in family practice, I used to couch my advice with the phrase ” This is a current recommendation, that could easily be contradicting in a few years”.
They banned DDT becuase of Racheal Carsons lies and junk science they ended logging in south america becuase of the lies from the greens they have written the Kyoto Treaty becuase of Junk Science and listed polarbears becuase of the lies from biologists and the greenfreaks the entire enviromental movment consists of nothing but lies and junk science
Well, in that case, obviously they will have to be banned or the damned bees will take over the world.
Just like global warming. Follow the money and the bad science.
We have reached a point where I think it only fair to ask a few volunteer journalists and scientists to leap from their buildings or broadcast towers. Considering recent events, they owe it to us to prove that they haven’t been bullsh*tting about gravity all along too.
First priority of the new US administration in 2017 should be a moratorium on all new regulation until these dictatorial agencies governed by fraudulent claims are severely limited by statute as to the harm they can do.
What ever became of the africa killer bees that we were hearing so much about in the 1970’s? made a few bad movies like THE SWARM and stuff but so far othing no killer bees no reports of big swarms of bumbley bees bees attacking anyone then what happened to Raidon Gas as well?
“Just like global warming. Follow the money abd the bad science.”
Indeed. As a matter of fact, the stories about bee die-offs are kind of linked to global warming, as long as we’re talking about the lack of it. We have had two winters in a row that have been longer and colder than the preceeding 20 years. The bee keepers who left enough food over – winter fir their bees have not experienced die-offs.
Well said @ 11:01.
The comments to Henry Miller’s article indicate some have swallowed the junk science.
and I, for one, welcome our new insect overlords….
Not as long as theres birds around to keep thier numbers in check
hey uninformed ..mabe pull your head out of your ass and read some real scientific work instead of some tabloid preschool reader hillbilly text
I am not biochemist or agriculure in animal feeds but I know animals feeds affect taste of meat such as beef. I suspect hormone gaven tto beef can harmful to animals and human who eat that kind of beef in hhigh risk such as cancer, kidney, high blood pressure and even eyes and increase weight. I knew owner of beef company and one beef sausage who extermlyy over weightt. Compare canada beef vs newzealand austttrralia for sure canada grain fed beef is the bestt flavor. If they cut hormone can better milk or meat prevent desease. More taste need to done. Chicken with colour black feather with no additivee has more taste better than white chicken. Fowel chicken only good for soap.
We feed all your feathered friends SP, winter and summer.
Lots of bees round here too. 🙂
Had a dashed Hallmark moment when a small raptor showed up this past winter and took a nut-thatcher from a group of them that was feeding, but she’s got to eat too.
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If you read tge comments in the Forbes article, you will realize it was written by an ignoramus who misuses facts to back his thesis. Neonics use results in a decline in native and farmed bees and that information exists and is reputable. An increase in the number of hives does not mean an increase in the number of bees, and if yoy don’t know this, don’t write an article about it.
Like this Greenpeace idiots claiming that the Sonar used by the U.S. Navy was messing up with the dolphins and whales sonar and cuasing them to ground theselves they sued by a judge dismissed their stupid lawsuit STUPID GREENPEACE STUPID TREE HUGGERS AND SITTERS GO AWAY GREENPEACE