Aaron writes
<_http://www.ufodigest.com/article/wind-farms-may-be-responsible-mass-honeybee-disappearance_
(http://www.ufodigest.com/article/wind-farms-may-be-responsible-mass-honeybee-disappearance) Mystery solved!>
Great post.
It illustrates the faulty logic we've been seeing. 1) Take a map of wind
farms, 2) take our 2007 map of CCD, 3) dismiss all losses in the SE 1/4 of
US as weather related, 4) ignore the fact that both bees and wind farms
tend to be common to rural areas, and finally, 5) average everything over
state-wide scale, rather than specific locations of affected beeyards and wind
farms, and 6) you get an apparent correlation.
People need to review the difference btw inductive and deductive
reasoning, force fitting of facts to fit a hypothesis. This is a great example of
how not to do science, almost as good as the Harvard study.
(I should note that we averaged over states on our map so people couldn't
pick out the affected beekeepers - which could be detrimental to their
beekeeping operations - sale of bees, sale of product, rental of hives, etc.
We still got complaints from queen breeding states.)
Also, I've been in most of those states, seen wind farms - they weren't
near any of the CCD yards we visited. I have been surprised at how many wind
farms I've seen in corn fields in Illinois, Indiana, Nebraska. Don't know
about MO, Bob?
Jerry
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