[Pollinator] Fwd: Fabricated Fortune magazine article - Jerry Bromenshenk's response

Tue Oct 12 14:03:50 PDT 2010

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 From: hgh at ufl.edu
To: Ladadams at aol.com
Sent: 10/12/2010 1:52:50 P.M.  Pacific Daylight Time
Subj: Fabricated Fortune magazine article - Jerry  Bromenshenk&apos;s 
response 

Dear Laurie, 
I saw today from the Pollinator listserve the link to the  Fortune magazine 
article that I had regrettably  forwarded to the  beemonitoring group. I 
learned shortly thereafter that it was a fabrication  and today forwarded the 
message below from Jerry Bromenshenk.  It would be good if you  could send 
this out ASAP. 
Thank  you, 
Glenn  Hall 

Subject: Fortune magazine article on  CCD is a fabrication

-----Forwarded Message----- 
>From: BeeResearch at AOL.COM 
>Sent: Oct 8, 2010 9:51 PM 
>To: BEE-L at COMMUNITY.LSOFT.COM 
>Subject: Re: [BEE-L] Paper on CCD 
>  
>The Fortune reporter knows full well: 
>  
>(1) the onion seed pollination work was done for a  large U.S.  company,  
>there was no grant received from  Bayer, 
>  
>(2) the acoustic recorder is better at pesticide  detection than   
>pathogens 
>- the latter part of the development is an ongoing  research  project  
>still being funded by USDA. 
>  
>(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. 
>  
>(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. 
>  
>This all came about because of  changes in  Federal Law ensuing from   
>the 1980  Bayh–Dole Act or University and Small  Business Patent  
Procedures Act. 
>This is _United States_ (_http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_ 
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States) ) 
>_legislation_ (_http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_ 
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law) )   dealing with   
>intellectual property arising from _federal   government-funded  
>research_ 
>(_http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Research_funding#Government-funded_resear_ 
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Research_funding#Government-funded_resear)  
>ch) . Adopted in _1980_ 
>(_http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1980_ (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1980) ) 
 , Bayh-Dole is codified in _35   
>U.S.C._ 
>(_http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Title_35_of_the_United_States_Code_ 
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Title_35_of_the_United_States_Code) )   _§  
>200_ 
>(_http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/35/200.html_ 
(http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/35/200.html) )  -212_[1]_ 
>(_http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayh–Dole_Act#endnote_35USC200212_ 
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayh–Dole_Act#endnote_35USC200212) )  , and 
implemented by 37 _C.F.R._  
>(_http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code_of_Federal_Regulations_ 
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code_of_Federal_Regulations) )    401_[2]_  
>(_http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayh–Dole_Act#endnote_37CFR401_ 
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayh–Dole_Act#endnote_37CFR401) )  . Among  
>other things, it gave U.S. universities, small   businesses and  
>non-profits _intellectual  property_   
>(_http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intellectual_property_ 
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intellectual_property) )   control of their  
>_inventions_ (_http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invention_ 
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invention) )   and other intellectual property that resulted from 
such  funding. 
>  
>The Fortune article presents an assortment of lies  and  half-truths by a  
>reporter who left another magazine before it  folded.   Unfortunately, 
this  
>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. 
>  
>The NEW version of this fiction appears  at: 
>_http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2010/10/bee_mystery_unsolved_lead_inve.ht 
>ml_ 
>(_http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2010/10/bee_mystery_unsolved_lead_inve.ht_ 
(http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2010/10/bee_mystery_unsolved_lead_inve.ht)  
>ml) and  it also encourages reader comment, as  does Fortune. 
>  
>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 “. 
>  
>Thanks to all.   Jerry 
>  
>  
>  
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