>
> >bees have been hyped so much, that now we see authors who have never had
> any experience with bees putting together papers on a topic outside their
> discipline as yet another angle on getting their names out, papers to check
> off.
>

I see this regularly these days.  I'm also a scientific advisor to some
research funding groups, and see this every year with proposals.  The
submitters often have no idea how to set up an experiment dealing with
bees, nor implications of their findings (this was painfully apparent at
the recent California State Beekeepers Convention).

-- 
Randy Oliver
Grass Valley, CA
www.ScientificBeekeeping.com

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