“Therefore, it all boils down to mater of trust.”

Good point, Joe.  Here’s the thing, though, if I say I don’t use any 
treatments or manipulations, and that I am able to keep bees without having 
to go out and buy new packages to keep it all going, that is one thing.  It 
is understood that trust is the only alternative applicable to that kind of 
claim.  If, on the other hand, I say that what I am able to do proves that 
everyone can keep bees without any treatments or manipulations I am clearly 
putting something out there that I have no way of knowing unless I have 
much more than a few anecdotal examples and my own personal experience to 
go by.  In that case I would not only be fooling myself, I would be 
expecting everyone else to be fools too.  There is no reason to trust 
someone in as much as they are extending their claims beyond that which 
they can possibly know.  What I see going on here is that people are being 
called to task, not so much for offering their personal experience, but for 
in some cases dogmatically claiming more than that experience alone can 
support.  Still, it is not 100% proof that we should be expecting.  What we 
are really looking for is a preponderance of irrefutable evidence, and for 
some there is a need to be able to bet the farm on it.  

Steve Noble

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