Please excuse my absence from the lengthy exchange about bee
"language."  For the past few months I have been involved in a very
complicated bee research project and have not had time to respond.
Within a few days I expect to fashion a response to the numerous
postings on the subject.

    If I read the news coverage correctly, it appears that the bee
language controversy has much in parallel with the subject of a
television program that airs tonight at 8 p.m. on the History
Channel, "Mavericks, Miracles, and Medicine."

    The documentary film maker, Jeffrey Tuchman, "focuses on those who
helped advance medicine and sometimes paid a price for the
innovation" according the account.  That is, many major advances in
science and medicine are accomplished by those who go against the
"consensus" of the community (those who adhere to dogma).

    As Mark Twain wrote (In "Dr. Loeb's Incedible Discovery"):
"Whatever new thing a Consensus [bets against], bet your money on
that very card and do not be afraid."

                                                        Adrian
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