> The BIP survey has little value other than creating alarming headlines for a hungry media. Those headlines do have one profound value and that is priming the pump of the fountain of funding.
Exactly. And I recall that CCD, real or imagined, rescued bee research funding just in the nick of time.
Moreover the alarming headlines turned beekeepers form freaks and pariahs into heroes in the eyes of the public.
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