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Cell phones kill bumblebees.....?
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. |