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> Truly, the triumph of politics over the scientific "evidence-based"
> approach.
> Would anyone ever seriously consider going back to the old pesticides?
Perhaps this response to the Congress's letter is a bit of an
overreaction. Science is seldom unchanging. Evidence changes. Over the
years we have found that what was thought to be fact was an aberration.
For that reason, I find no problem is asking the EPA reconsider their
decision on the use of insecticides - especially Neonics. That is what the
President and Congress have asked the EPA to do.
I have enough of a background in science to be able to read the studies
and evaluate them. The evidence to me is ambivalent. I do think that the
studies that speak to the prophylactic use of Neonics should cause us to
stop and consider our system. It may be a triumph of commercialism over
good sense. The Fish and Wildlife Service did that and changed their
guidelines for the use of Neonics.
I am old enough to remember my father loading DDT into a hand sprayer and
spraying it around the back door. It kept the bugs out, he said. The
devastating negative effects were too subtle. I don't know if employing
Neonics will play out like DDT, but I have no problem with keeping our eyes
open. I, for one, am glad the Congress wrote this letter. That comes from
a guy who often does not like what congress does.
To answer the question, I would not suggest we go back to old pesticides,
but I also don't consider it an either/or situation.
My bees are having a hard time. I vote for keeping our minds open.
Larry Krengel
Marengo, Illinois
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