> In the CBS piece the reporter said that researchers have 
> spent 10 billion dollars researchers the AHB since the 
> Brazil release.

> Does the list think the figure is accurate?

Here's a quick and easy way to do a sanity check -
just compare the orders of magnitude of the numbers.

1) The USDA Bee Labs get about $11 million per year combined.

2) Universities spend, in total an amount roughly equal to
   the USDA total.

3) $10 billion is 909 times $11 million.

So, one can conclude $10 billion is waaay to high
a number.  No one would spend "a thousand years"
worth of funding on any one problem.

And if you think that you can stop AHB cold, let's
hear your idea in detail. 

And why the cynical assumption of self-interest swaying
scientific priorities? Maybe "researchers declined
your solution" for just cause rather than out of some
ulterior motive. 

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