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Saturday, Nov 7, 2009
bud dingler
Published Letters: 2
As a beekeeper I am frusturated by the feedback from John and Jane Doe.
Does anyone read and try and understansd these kinds of articles? It does not sound like it when we get all of these ignorant questions and stupid ideas floated.
Like West Nile,.....duh...did you read the article at all? Its an interview of scientists not some one sitting on a bar stool postulating about the possible causes.
BTW that disengenuos claim that organic beekeepers are unaffected does not explain that the 1000 member mail list is mostly back yard ameturs and hobbysists. The fact is ALL smaller beekeepers who leave there hive staitionary year around are not beign affected not just the granola munching dope heads.
No mattter what credentials someone has that refutes the cell phone/microwave laughable theory we always have some basement scientist wearing a tin foil hat claiming that EMF's are the cause of a bee decline.
hate to drop the call on the cell phone theory but ahem the study was not even about cell phones!!!!!
http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/04/22/news/wireless23.php
"The bee story had an extra appeal for those people who use their cellphones rather tentatively because they think the privilege to speak on the move may be frying their brain cells one by one. So now, if the headlines are to be believed, we learn that our cellphone and those long calls from mom where she refuses every attempt to cut short the conversation not only are going to lead to our demise, they are killing millions of bees.
Good story for sure, except that the study in question had nothing to do with mobile phones and was actually investigating the influence of electromagnetic fields, especially those used by cordless phones that work on fixed-line networks, on the learning ability of bees. The small study, according to the researchers who carried it out too small for the results to be considered significant, found that the electromagnetic fields similar to those used by cordless phones may interrupt the innate ability of bees to find the way back to their hive.
Those searching for answers for the recent disappearance of millions of bees in the United States - what researchers are calling colony collapse disorder - jumped on the possible explanation though there was one particular, cellphones and cordless phones emit different types of radiation and what you learn studying one type is not necessarily significant to the other, according to the researchers.
"We cannot explain the CCD-phenomenon itself and want to keep from speculation in this case," Jochen Kuhn, a professor in the physics department at the University of Koblenz-Landau in Germany who co-authored the bee study, wrote in an e-mail message. "Our studies cannot indicate that electromagnetic radiation is a cause of CCD."
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