I don't see any link btw pesticides and CCD based on this paper. Don't confuse CCD with pesticide effects, the author doesn't. Also, this may be a new way of trying to look at the data, but its not new research - its based on published reports. I am bothered by the selective use of papers - its a dangerous game for a stats person to preselect the data, decide which data is 'true'. Meta-Analysis is an approach used in epidemiology, medicine - when looking at hundreds of papers - this is a VERY small set of papers to be subjected to 'meta' analysis, and with small data sets, excluding any can have a large effect on the results. In a message dated 2/5/2011 3:44:56 P.M. Mountain Standard Time, [log in to unmask] writes: New research proves pesticide link to CCD (??) A META -ANALYSIS OF EXPERIMENT TESTING THE EFFECTS OF A NEONICOTINOID (IMIDACLOPRID) ON HONEY BEES *********************************************** The BEE-L mailing list is powered by L-Soft's renowned LISTSERV(R) list management software. For more information, go to: http://www.lsoft.com/LISTSERV-powered.html Guidelines for posting to BEE-L can be found at: http://honeybeeworld.com/bee-l/guidelines.htm