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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>As evidence that you can’t believe everything you read on
the Internet, there has been quite a chatter on the beekeepers’ listserve
about the accuracy (or not) of this Fortune article. What Jerry Bromenshenk himself
had to say about it is pasted in below, followed by one from another beekeeper.
There are two posting from Jerry. I deleted one long paragraph from the first
one, but if anyone wants to read it all, you can see it at the Bee-L archives
at <a
href="http://community.lsoft.com/scripts/wa-LSOFTDONATIONS.exe?A2=BEE-L;a31c0d8a.1010">http://community.lsoft.com/scripts/wa-LSOFTDONATIONS.exe?A2=BEE-L;a31c0d8a.1010</a>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>Matthew<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>************************************************************<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>Date: Sat, 9 Oct 2010 00:51:54 EDT<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>From: BeeResearch@AOL.COM<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>Subject: Re: Paper on CCD<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>The Fortune reporter knows full well:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText> <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>(1) the onion seed pollination work was done for a large
U.S. company, there was no grant received from Bayer,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText> <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>(2) the acoustic recorder is better at pesticide
detection than pathogens<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>- the latter part of the development is an ongoing
research project still being funded by USDA. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText> <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>(3) we weren't asked by NYT to disclose our funding
sources, it wasn't brought up, and there was no need since this information is
required by PloS ONE before they will even review a paper. You can
find it on the PloS ONE site.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText> <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>(4) Bee Alert Technology, Inc. is a technology
transfer company that is legally recognized as an independent company in
the State of Montana, affiliated with the University of Montana. It
is MT State Board of Regents Approved and has been since the early
2000s. Intellectual property agreements are in place, stipulating issues
such as patents, IP rights, licensing, and if we ever make any money -
which seems a LONG way off, the University receives an established
royalty for research and education. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText> <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>The Fortune article presents an assortment of lies
and half-truths by a <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>reporter who left another magazine before it
folded. Unfortunately, this <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>article has spawned a copy by New Yorker Magazine that
added an even more inflammatory headline and chose to emphasize some of
Ms Eban's more outrageous claims of what she alleges I said. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText> <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>The NEW version of this fiction appears at:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>_http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2010/10/bee_mystery_unsolved_lead_inve.html_<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>(<a
href="http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2010/10/bee_mystery_unsolved_lead_inve.html">http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2010/10/bee_mystery_unsolved_lead_inve.html</a>)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>and it also encourages reader comment, as does
Fortune.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText> <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>The only good thing about all this is that it can still
generate a smile, courtesy of friends - such as the proposed title sent
to me “Fortune’s Misfortune – Smearing Scientists Is
Liable To Be Libel “.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText> <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>Thanks to all. Jerry<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText> <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText> <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>Date: Sat, 9 Oct 2010 17:39:01 EDT<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>From: BeeResearch@AOL.COM<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>Subject: Re: Paper on CCD<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>In a message dated 10/9/2010 8:37:02 A.M. Mountain
Daylight Time, <a href="mailto:plb6@CORNELL.EDU">plb6@CORNELL.EDU</a> writes:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>That should be the "New York" magazine.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText> <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>Thanks Peter -<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>Sorry, I was in a rage.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText> <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText> <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>The Fortune author was fed a concocted story, and she
refused to change the story she had already written. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText> <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>I did not receive a grant from BAYER, so the whole
premise of the article and its clone was false. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>Our study is based on data from the Premiere US ARMY lab
for this type of work. I have 17 co-authors. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText> <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>I WAS livid - never did I think that our results would be
so threatening that I'd be personally attacked in an attempt to discredit the
work of the Army, 4 universities, 3 companies, and 18 authors.<o:p></o:p></p>
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color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>Also, another beekeeper added the following:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>Date: Fri, 8 Oct 2010 20:43:30 -0700<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>From: randy oliver
<randy@RANDYOLIVER.COM><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>Subject: Re: Paper on CCD<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>> Re:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>> <a
href="http://money.cnn.com/2010/10/08/news/honey_bees_ny_times.fortune/index">http://money.cnn.com/2010/10/08/news/honey_bees_ny_times.fortune/index</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>Just how low can a reporter stoop? This story is
patently libelous.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>Just because a reporter has the clear agenda of blaming
imidacloprid for all bee problems, doesn't mean that she needs to fabricate
some conflict of interest nonsense about Jerry.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>If she had actually taken the time to read the article,
rather than just the headline, she might have understood that Jerry's paper was
not concerned with pesticides, other than one brief mention, in which it says:
"A survey of bee samples from across the USA revealed traces of pesticides
in many bee samples, but none were shown to correlate with CCD," referring
to Mullin, et<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>al.*<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>What they actually said was: "While exposure to many
of these neurotoxicants elicits acute and sublethal reductions in honey bee
fitness, the effects of these materials in combinations and their direct association
with CCD or declining bee health remains to be determined," so I do not
feel that Jerry misrepresented them.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>What apparently ticked off the Future
"journalist" was that she was afraid that Jerry's paper might divert
attention from her pet peeve--that Bayer's neonicotinoids must be killing
bees. If she had taken a moment to read the Mullin paper, she would have
found: "Our results do not support sufficient amounts and frequency in
pollen of imidacloprid (mean of 3.1 ppb in less than 3% of pollen samples) or
the less toxic neonicotinoids thiacloprid and acetamiprid to account for
impacts on bee health."<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>This was not Jerry that said this, but the team of
excellent pesticide researchers cited below.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>I've written to Fortune, suggesting that they publish a
retraction of the libelous claims. Feel free to do so yourselves: <a
href="mailto:letters@fortune.com">letters@fortune.com</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>Randy Oliver<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> pollinator-bounces+mdshepherd=xerces.org@lists.sonic.net
[mailto:pollinator-bounces+mdshepherd=xerces.org@lists.sonic.net] <b>On Behalf
Of </b>Ladadams@aol.com<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Monday, October 11, 2010 10:54 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> pollinator@nappc.org<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [Pollinator] Fwd: [beemonitoring] Fortune article on recent
honey bee CCD study<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif";
color:black'>http://money.cnn.com/2010/10/08/news/honey_bees_ny_times.fortune/index.htm</span><span
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:black'>From: hgh@ufl.edu<br>
To: beemonitoring@yahoogroups.com<br>
Sent: 10/11/2010 10:26:04 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time<br>
Subj: [beemonitoring] Fortune article on recent honey bee CCD study<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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color:black'>http://money.cnn.com/2010/10/08/news/honey_bees_ny_times.fortune/index.htm</span><span
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