> Graciela Flores seems to have written a well balanced article. She > is to be commended when there is so much disingenuous material > published about the bee problem. And, it seemed to make no flaming > accusations either pro or con anything. Yet she concludes with this: “There are obvious parallels with the tobacco industry,” said Goulson. “For 50 years they insisted that smoking wasn’t harmful to human health, even when the scientific evidence piled up..." I remember that when my daughter was in grade school, she was taught to read articles with an eye to bias and slant. I found that interesting, as most people cannot detect bias that seems really obvious to the trained eye. *********************************************** 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