>  they view  our hypothesis of Nosema/virus as a
 > reasonable suspect for the cause of CCD  as  unlikely, and as such,
 > not worthy  of funding.

Finding the true cause too quickly would kill the Golden Goose of
emergency funding, especially if there turns out to be a simple way of
preventing it.

Bee research was being cut out of funding plans just a few years
ago and looking at layoffs and lab closures. CCD has provided a
cornucopia for the bee research community just in time. Coincidence?

CCD, along with an exaggerated importance attributed to the honey bee
justifies looking at everything everyone has ever wanted to research.

Proving a simple cause would restrict the research funding to work only
dealing with that cause.

Bureaucracies can be very blind to things they don't want to see and
have ways of punishing those who won't wear the blinders.

But we all knew that didn't we?

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