> Getting a negative result published is essentially impossible. 

perhaps you did not notice my previous post: Oliver, R. (2024). A longitudinal field study of commercial honey bees shows that non-native probiotics do not rescue antibiotic treatment, and are generally not beneficial.  "www.nature.com/scientificreports"

> Here we show that non-native probiotics marketed as a beneficial medicine for honey bees have no effect on pathogen prevalence or the honey bee gut microbiome.

This is on par with research that has shown that multi-vitamins for humans are essentially a waste of money. 

> Eliseo Guallar of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, and colleagues: “reviews and guidelines that have appraised the role of vitamin and mineral supplements in primary or secondary prevention of chronic disease have consistently found null results or possible harms."

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