you have lost sight of the most basic principal of beekeeping - that
you must abandon your own biases and assumptions, and base your beekeeping
upon observations, evidence, and tangible evidence/metrics rather than
assumptions or ancient dogma. 

Actually, while the first part is good (abandon your own biases and assumptions), the second is not. Science is not merely the collection of "observations and evidence." It is the understanding of the underlying principals. For that, we rely foremost upon the work of others to which we add our own mental processes. 

Just observing and collecting evidence can be done easily from any lawn chair, requires no knowledge and no skill. The great ones (Huber, von Frisch, Seeley, &c.) collect data, to be sure, but they interpret it using their minds and the minds of others; the collective intelligence of humankind. 

PLB

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