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1. Dick Davies
   April 17th, 2007 at 2:11 am

   There’s a dollop of skepticism at : http://instapundit.com/archives2/004182.php

   Then again, Paul noticed the same thing is happening to bumblebees: http://www.breadedcod.com/2007/04/16/92/

   Poor bees. Why can’t wasps be disappearing?

2. CJ Casey
   April 17th, 2007 at 7:42 am

   Where did Einstein say that? I’ve seen it bandied about everywhere but not with a source. And even if he did, well, he was a theoretical physicist. I admire Alan Greenspan a lot, but I’m not really concerned about his opinions of apiary life, either.

3. Justin
   April 17th, 2007 at 4:59 pm

   Hmmm, I’d like to know more specifics on how the test was conducted. Was the cell phone on, for how long, was it receiving phone calls constantly or at all? Was this done in a lab, or outdoors in an uncontrolled area. Also, how close was the cell phone to the bees’ hives, could it have been the proximity to the hive, or maybe the color of the phone.

   The article goes on to mention about the increasing evidence that cell phones are harmful to humans, but all the articles and studies I’ve seen have discounted this.

   It’s clear there is a problem here, but the solution seems unclear. I’m more inclined to think it could be some pesticide that is widely used, than cell phone radiation… Then again, I’m not a bee expert.

4. Justin
   April 17th, 2007 at 5:22 pm

   I’m having trouble finding what scholarly journal if any this study was published in. Does anyone know how I can find the raw data for this study?

5. Justin
   April 17th, 2007 at 5:49 pm

   Ah, I don’t mean to keep spamming, but I found the link (in english too!)
   http://agbi.uni-landau.de/material_download/IAAS_2006.pdf

   It seems to me that the study is so small(I think they only used 8 bee hives, and I think he says some of them weren’t recorded correctly) that a new study should be done using realistic approaches. From what I understand, they took cordless phone base stations and pumped them to full blast and then put them right under or in the bee hive.

   Anyways this study smells a little fishy to me, but I think another larger scale study should be done.

6. Jason
   April 18th, 2007 at 1:46 pm

   CJ–

   Most internet “wisdom” is attributed to either Einstein (if it’s pseudoscience) or the Dalai Lama (if it’s pseudospritual).

   –Albert Einstein

7. James
   May 4th, 2007 at 3:58 pm

   Bees are dying because of a fungus, part of a normal ebb and flow of the crops. Not cell phones. Europe has the highest concentration of cellphone usage in the world and their bees are not dying off like ours are.

   Also, honeybees only make up for -one third- of pollination in the united states. We’re not going to be in much trouble if every honeybee were to die off tomorrow.

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