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The absurdity of this whole
September 10, 2007 by Anonymous, 2 years 8 weeks ago
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The absurdity of this whole thing is that there IS a cause and it is they way they are being treated.
Humans carry bacteria, viruses and a host of other "tag-alongs" without suffering ill effects - and this is not uncommon in the animal/insect/plant world. Why is attention being paid to these researchers and why is effort being expended to find a "cure" when we have no baseline for measuring it?
If it is somehow important to say "under extreme and constant hive stress, this virus will kill" then fine, but the root cause is still the stress. From what I have read, the organic bee community haven't experienced the same issues (http://www.gnn.tv/articles/3044/Colony_Collapse_and_Honeycomb_Size) so why are we not looking at the obvious? Is it so easy to find a strawman to knock down than to hold a mirror up to our industry?
Eric