Peter is absolutely right. Its a hunch, same as the 'hunch' by the German
physicist who started the cell phone causes CCD media frenzy. The actual
paper was a mathematical projection, followed by an initial study that
failed to prove the hypothesis.
To progress, we need to form hypothesis, some may be just a hunch, some may
be based on inference from other studies and information, but just because
one can conceive something, doesn't make it so.
That's the jump that the media, the public, and sometimes beekeepers want
to make. Unfortunately, I also see researchers doing the same - and we're
supposed to have been trained to be objective.
Jerry
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