>I loved Seeley's book, Honey Bee Democracy. <
 
Words Count - I did Not Say I objected to the book, I said the TITLE was anthropomorphic.   But this makes my point, people take words out of context.
 
Dr Seeley's book though is not where the Natural and Treatment Free folks are finding his supposed support for not monitoring or managing their bees, nor their idea that Dr. Seeley endorses their ideas.  That's coming from hearing and taking his recent talks and then taking the presentations out of context, 2nd and 3rd hand repetition.
 
Unfortunately, as academics, we have a balancing act when addressing non-technical audiences.  I've had the same problem - but if and when I discover that my words are being misinterpreted, I go back and change the presentations to be very clear about what I mean.  As Peter pointed out - the audiences are missing the monitoring, management requirements of his 'natural beekeeping' talks.  They come to hear him reinforce their notions that the problem with bees is our management, the answer is treatment free, natural, unmanaged bees.
 
My approach  when I find people misinterpreting my talks is corrective action.  
 
I change the talk to address the issue up front.  I start with a clarification at the beginning of the talk.   I mean this .......; I don't mean this.....    People generally remember the first few minutes of a talk and maybe the Title.   They may remember the last few minutes, if they're not asleep.

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