Absence of evidence is not the evidence of absence.

Just because claims are undocumented does not mean they have no value, or are false.  

Many things that seem self-evident are very hard to prove and many 'proofs' depend on assumptions. 

Moreover, what has been discovered is a tiny portion of what exists.

How often have we found that the 'consensus' was wrong, and only continued to be regarded as as 'fact' because people acepted it, defended it, and stopped looking.

AFAIK, no one has proven that bees are not intelligent, cannot learn, etc.  All that has been shown is that we cannot convince ourselves of it according the rules of science. 

Science is a blunt instrument, and sometimes successful for putting men on the moon, but lacking in other fields.

For bees, and human behaviour in fact, it's predictive ability is limited to describing the norm, but it is helpless for describing the extraordinary things every observant long-time beekeeper has seen.

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