Bye Bye Honey Bees – You Were Good While You Lasted

Filed in National by on April 23, 2007

I can’t wait for Ryan S’s post on how the vanishing of the Honey Bee is a liberal myth.

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  1. anon says:
    April 23, 2007 at 1:23 pm

    Wait… there’s a message on the tree stump out in my back yard… it says: “So long, and thanks for all the pollen!”

  2. donviti says:
    April 23, 2007 at 1:25 pm

    Did Noah bring over the Honey bees?

    how does god feel about all of this? Was it his plan to have all the species go extinct?

    Can we get a quote from him Jason?

  3. Duffy says:
    April 23, 2007 at 2:20 pm

    I’ll pick up that gauntlet. Like most other enviro-hysteria, this one doesn’t stand up to scrutiny either.

    Here and here and here and logical fallacy noted here

  4. G Rex says:
    April 23, 2007 at 2:50 pm

    I dunno, Duffy, I saw this story on Fox News, so it must be true. As it turns out, the bees all moved to New York and other states that have better welfare benefits. Also, bee abortion rates have skyrocketed in recent years. In related news, Reverend Sharpton is protesting the unequal treatment of so-called “Africanized” honeybees, and is demanding reparations from the honey industry. It turns out “killer bees” was derogatory.

  5. Tyler Nixon says:
    April 23, 2007 at 2:57 pm

    They need to dig up the Belushi SNL bee performances and show the world that bees are people too.

    The bees must live!!

    Come on everybody….a-buzz-buzz….buzz-buzz….well, sting me, baby!

  6. donviti says:
    April 23, 2007 at 2:58 pm

    g rex,

    i heard that Sharpton was more upset that the hip hop community labeled them “killer african bees”

  7. Tyler Nixon says:
    April 23, 2007 at 3:00 pm

    http://caughtinthexfire.mu.nu/archives/snl_bee.jpg

  8. liberalgeek says:
    April 23, 2007 at 3:02 pm

    Duffy,

    I like all slashdot links, but that is not a logical fallacy. I don’t subscribe to the whole cell phones are killing bees theory, but the logical fallacy is that a higher population density has a resultant higher power output on these cell towers.

    For all I know, in the US, we are less population dense, so we need to put out more power to reach further distances. I don’t know, but I suspect that the relationship is not as simple as the /. poster indicated.

    Also, your first link is 404.

  9. Nancy Willing says:
    April 23, 2007 at 4:25 pm

    There is some healthy speculation that the electronic/whatever rays from cell phones is being sent out to take the heat off of the first theories that pointed to trace pesticide and micro-chemicals, perhaps, like DuPont’s c-8.

    What we do know, folks, is that there is no question that there is a crisis.
    Up to 60% of the bees have died in a mid-west -findings of a a published study).

  10. Duffy says:
    April 24, 2007 at 11:43 am

    Liberalgeek,

    Good point about power output but I believe the Slashdot user was pointing more toward ubiquity than power. There are great bit swaths of this country that are not covered by cell towers and i’d wager we’re seeing similar rates of change in those areas as well.

  11. Einstein says:
    April 25, 2007 at 12:42 am

    Albert Einstein speculated that “If the bee disappeared off the surface of the globe, then man would only have four years of life left.”

    At this rate we would have until about 2012.

    http://www.heyokamagazine.com/HEYOKA.7.BEES.htm

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