Rosemary Mason claims leading journal 'nature' is in the pocket of Syngenta!
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All that Cressey has done is to demonstrate that Nature is no longer a journal of high scientific integrity, but a mouthpiece for the agrochemical industry.
Unhappiness regarding Nature's failure to accept her paper with Tennekes succinctly expressed in a 13 page letter.
Sometimes hard to get all your thoughts into just a few words.
http://moraybeedinosaurs.co.uk/neoni...f%20Nature.pdf
Rosemary Mason claims leading journal 'nature' is in the pocket of Syngenta!
I'm sorry, who is Rosemary Mason?
Rosemary Mason claims leading journal 'nature' is in the pocket of Syngenta!
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Jon
A disgruntled eco campaigner (non beekeeper) who visited Orkney earlier in the year who then claimed that varroa was a symptom rather than a cause of bee health problems and the varroa only caused a problem because the colony was weakened by neonicotinoids.
Hmmm, heard that one before, can't think where though ;)
Rosemary Mason claims leading journal 'nature' is in the pocket of Syngenta!
Actually this narrative worries me a lot.
If I could give one piece of advice only to a new beekeeper it would be 'keep on top of varroa' so to see it now being co-opted as a benign entity except when bees are already suffering from exposure to a particular pesticide class worries me enormously.
I don't intend to trivialise or diminish any of the other issues in and around beekeeping but I continue to believe that in isolation varroa continues to pose the biggest challenge to UK Beekeepers.