> any worthwhile information cannot be effectively acted upon because some things just take too long and quite often are way too expensive.

Are you saying therefore to act upon information that is lacking worth? Do something, even if it's wrong? (Heard that before)

> do people really give all their children a dose of antibiotic when one gets a mild infection?

The answer here is yes. Probably the same people who eschew vaccines, but whatever. 

> Tom Campbell, MD, a family physician from Rochester, N.Y., says that patients often plead for antibiotics for garden-variety cold symptoms, saying everything from "The last time it helped me completely" to "I have to go to my daughter's wedding" and "There's this terrible green guck coming out of my nose."

Not just that but I know plenty of people who run to the doctor or even the ER when they find a tick on them. The first thing the physicians do now is give them antibiotics, regardless if they have an infection or not.  So, yes, antibiotics are still handed out. Fact is, honey bees are now classed as livestock and veterinarians are now involved. I hope this means that beekeepers will take a more scientific approach, instead of relying on doing what they overhear when listening to the big boys at the conventions.

PLB

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