I do have a PhD, and it's in the field of medicine, and has nothing to do
with bee-keeping.  But I can assure I understand how the media
organizations might publish without consulting a scientist in the first
place.   It is quite possible and common practice that the scientist that
releases his research has no desire, nor incentive to communicate with
someone else who has no intention of really understanding his time and
effort he's put forth in researching a subject.

I feel it is a great disservice to blame a scientist when someone else
misreports his findings, or uses them for purposes other than the
scientists intentions.  A research scientist usually is paid by the grants
they receive and a great deal of effort goes into making sure the research
scientist do not have a conflict of interest when they publish their work.
It would be ludicrous to believe a research scientist would undermine their
authority on a subject by entertaining anything that remotely looks like a
conflict of interest.

It reveals your own ignorance when you assume the scientist is even aware
that a publication is misusing his research!

It happens all the time.  The media regularly misrepresents research to
make it understandable to the public.  The media needs to make it
entertaining and interesting.  There is no requirement that the reporter
even understands what he's writing about with regard to the scientific
matter he is covering.  Just reasonable to the public.

So please check your finger pointing and character besmirching activity
when you have no real evidence.

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