I think the best summation was Christina's statement of May 29, 2013:
>
> "In my opinion, they are being misleading when they say that the binding is
> fully reversible.  In the lab, yes.  In nature???  Not likely, given that
> the displacement kinetics are completely unnatural.  Those metabolites
> aren't going to be found in a normal synapse, and there isn't anything else
> except ACh in there to compete with [Imidacloprid]."


"In my opinion"  and "not likely" are not science. Plus there was a lot
more discussion on this, much of it counter to the opinion.

What I love about the statement is that it is counter (Lab vs "nature") to
the arguments presented by the writer that used Lab results to prove that
Imid was a problem while some of us were showing that it did not seem to be
with canola (nature).

Those were the good old days.

Bill Truesdell
Bath, Maine

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