quote from Allen Dick <[log in to unmask]>:
...that we must first disprove the most obvious explanation before moving on to 'create new gods'. I personally like this interpretation: "The explanation requiring the fewest assumptions is most likely to be correct."


Yes. "Occam's razor" favors the simplest explanation: beekeepers have created resistant bacteria by dosing colonies with oxytetracyclene for 30 years. I have met beekeepers with thousands of colonies who put antibiotics in sirup and in patties which were left year 'round. Whether an individual beekeeper created a resistant strain of AFB and it spread -- or it is being generated simultaneously by many, is a moot point, once it becomes widespread. What to do about it is much more important.

Peter Borst
Ithaca NY USA