> As we have seen so often in the past, the researchers poisoned
> the bees in a lab instead of looking at the interaction of bees
> and neonicotinoids in a real life field situation.
>
> As Julian Little, spokesman for Bayer Cropscience has stated
> in the past: http://tinyurl.com/7n86thg "All studies looking at
> the interaction of bees and pesticides must be done in a full
> field situation"
Paul left off the next paragraph from the above by Professor Goulson (
Professor of Biological Sciences Scotland and has worked on over fifty
studies since 1993 which are listed at his website)
head of the study:
Goulson dismissed as "nonsense" Julian Little's suggestion that the doses
given to the bees were higher than in reality. Both Bayer & Defra suggested
other field studies had shown no harmful effects to bees. Goulson said:"if
they have done these studies ,where are they?They are not in the public
domain and therefore cannot be scrutinized. That raises the question of just
how good are they".
bob
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