"Don Foreman" wrote in message
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On Sat, 14 May 2011 09:54:38 -0700, Gunner Asch
wrote:

http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2011/...s-study-finds/

Interesting and VERY distressing if true.

We cannot afford to lose the bees....

"Dr. Daniel Favre, a former biologist with the Swiss Federal Institute
of Technology in Lausanne, Switzerland, carefully placed a mobile
phone underneath a beehive and then monitored the reaction of the
workers."

"This study shows that the presence of an active mobile phone disturbs
bees -- and has a dramatic effect," Favre told the Daily Mail.

If Dr. Favre carefully placed a glowing crucible of molten steel under
the hive and found that this disturbed the worker bees, would this
prove that steel production is damaging the bee population?

It seems evident why Dr. Favre is a *former* biologist with etc etc.

No only does the experiment sound a little less than rigorous, the
journalism (if you can call it that) of the sensationlist press is also at
fault Here is a article about how this story was spread and distorted and
how each "news" organization cribbed from the other:
http://cleantechnica.com/2011/05/12/...e-meme-spread/

With reporting this bad, it is really hard to know if the research was any
good or not and what it actually proved.