New research on colony collapse disorder

[Stromnessbees]

Doris you need to get real. That is pure fantasy.
...
Seriously Doris, the world is not the cess pool of intrigue that you imagine. Not the bee part of it anyway.

I'm not alone with my opinion:

The president of the Association of Commercial Beekeepers of Germany, Walter Haefeker, has written an article with the title 'Betrayed and Sold Off' about the great bee monitoring study, which was supposed to clear up the mystery about the bee die-offs.

http://www.imkerdemo.de/hintergrundi...nenmonitoring/

Walter Haefeker, EPBA

Verraten und verkauft - das deutsche Bienenmonitoring!


Von Walter Haefeker, Präsident der Vereinigung der Europäischen Berufsimker

I recommend that you google translate it and read it, to get the picture of what's been going on.


I'll give you time to read this and will try to get back to the discussion later.

[Jon]

Birds of a feather flock together and so do conspiracy theorists.
There are a lot of them about but the majority grow out of it.
I am well aware that multinationals have a lobbying budget.
The US system in particular lends itself to special interest groups and corporations.
But I really do not think we have paid 'shills' on the bee forums.
As they say in Belfast, - catch yourself on.

What would be the collective noun for a conference of conspiracy theorists.

A school of whales
A paranoia of conspiracy theorists.

[Trog]

and listened in amazement as Andrew Abrahams and yourself argued about which one of you lived on the bleakest island.

For bleakest island with a beekeeper on it, Tiree might get my vote. Without? Anything west of the Long Isle!

[gavin]

You can pick any internet forum you like, look for the 'hot' threads and see these strategies applied, and you'll know which topics the spin doctors are spinning you a yarn on.

Have fun!

Any internet forum? Do you *still* believe that this one has people contributing who are anything other than individual beekeepers here to talk beekeeping?

[Jon]

For bleakest island with a beekeeper on it, Tiree might get my vote. Without? Anything west of the Long Isle!

Anyone got a colony on Rockall?
All you need is a bee race which can forage on guano.
No chemical fertilizer needed there.

[Stromnessbees]

Just while I remember it: there's another technique that is used along with the other ones:

Whenever a genuine poster uncovers something very inconvenient and threatening to the team, they will call in people from the spare benches to create a flurry of activity on the forum, in order to burry the offending post and to get it off top position.
These spare forces are usually less well trained and keep to simpler lines of arguing or to alltogether unrelated topics.

[gavin]

LOL! You really are a hoot Doris.

Edit:

3. Informal One that is hilariously funny

Not:

interj. Scots
Used to express annoyance or objection.

PPS One 'r' in bury, just in case you are going to copy your hypothesis elsewhere.

[Stromnessbees]

Any internet forum? Do you *still* believe that this one has people contributing who are anything other than individual beekeepers here to talk beekeeping?

No, Gavin, I just want to raise awareness and I want you to run the forum with all this in mind, so that we can have meaningfull discussions here.

[gavin]

Well, that's progress I suppose.

[Jon]

This conspiracy theory stuff is not meaningful, it is abject nonsense which has the redeeming feature of inducing great hilarity.
I don't know how you get through the day with a head full of this stuff.
Orkney must be crawling with guys who look like extras from Men in Black.
Look out! They are coming for you.