Randy writes:  “Imidicloprid is currently being tried in the court of
scientific inquiry.  The jury has not yet been given enough evidence to rule
either way.”   

Yes, but why is it that a trial is occurring at all at this stage of the
game.  That is what I can’t understand.  This stuff has been out there in
widespread use for a while now and the question of its safety is still
unresolved.  Why wasn’t it resolved before it was ever put into widespread
use?  The cart seems to have been put before the horse as usual.  Yes there
are those who will never accept any level of scientific proof and there are
those who will prejudge, but having a trial to establish a pesticide’s
safety after it has been widely put into use seems kind of ass backward. 
This happens a lot though.  I think that’s because the best and often the
cheapest way to find out if something is safe is to put it out there and
wait to see what problems result from it.  With imidacloprid this scheme
would seem to be ideal because it is so hard to know what is actually
killing bees and therefor hard to pin blame on imidacloprid.

Steve Noble  

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