Randy already noted the lack of actual impact in the field and another
posted noted that canola is a treated crop.

Medhat can answer this best, but his data with colonies all around those
fields show that if nosema and Varroa are kept in check (which is what a
good beekeeper should be trying to accomplish) then you are back to normal
losses.

So we have a fairly large test going on right now and the results do not
match the concern of those trying to link ppt with mass bee die-offs. If the
link was there then they do not match actual field conditions.

Again, there is a large gap between what is shown in a lab and what
eventually is found in the field. You can kill just about any virus and
pathogen in a petri dish.

Plus, as Jerry noted, the lab experiment can be the problem.

Chris Reeve wrote this on the internet's most viewed weather blog - Watts up
with that?

> And this gets to the very problem which you guys are facing: How can we
> force people like particle physicists, quantum physicists, cosmologists and
> climate scientists to listen to the objections and research of outsiders?
> Currently, there exists no check-and-balances to the current top-down
> approach. Our scientific institutions have become authoritarian. The
> research exists to protect the ideology, instead of serving mankind. We’ve
> made a real good mess of things!
>
> But these are no accidents. These are all natural ramifications of what it
> means to be human. This is just human psychology. Left unrestrained by
> philosophy of science, science starts to take on the imprint of our personal
> preferences and prejudices — and our scientists come to imagine that their
> purpose is to prove that which they were taught in college.
>
It is an admonition to all scientists.

Bill Truesdell
Bath, Maine

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