Home Depot Looks to Limit [Neonic] Pesticides to Help Honeybees
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/home-depot-looks-to-limit-pesticides-to-help-honeybees/
or http://tinyurl.com/p3grmg5

Excerpt: "Scientists, consumer groups, beekeepers and others say bee 
deaths are linked to the neonic pesticides."

IMHO this article reaffirms my belief that the academic community
is ultimately responsible for empowering the Anti-Neonic dot org groups
via supporting their "guilty until proven innocent" ideology against 
neonics.

Likewise in this recent anti-neonics BBC article 
http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-27980344
a spokesman for the The European Crop Protection Association
told the reporter:

"We respect the scientists who have produced this [neonics are
causing widespread impacts] research, but it appears that they are
part of a movement that brings together some academics and NGOs 
whose only objective is to restrict or ban the use of neonicotinoid 
technology regardless of what the evidence may show".

Paul Cherubini
El Dorado, Calif.

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