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Katherine Eban in Common Dreams via Forbes/CNN …

For years Bayer Crop Science, a subsidiary of the German pharmaceutical giant Bayer AG, has tangled with regulators and fended off lawsuits from angry beekeepers who allege that the pesticides have disoriented and ultimately killed their bees.. A cheer must have gone up at Bayer on Thursday when a front-page New York Times article, under the headline “Scientists and Soldiers Solve a Bee Mystery,” described how a newly released study pinpoints a different cause for the die-off: “a fungus tag-teaming with a virus.” The study.. analyzed the proteins of afflicted bees using a new Army software system. The Bayer pesticides, however, go unmentioned. What the Times article did not explore — nor did the study disclose — was the relationship between the study’s lead author, Montana bee researcher Dr. Jerry Bromenshenk, and Bayer Crop Science

just speculation but for this to appear in Forbes there must be some sort of pollen-dependent oligarchic force behind the “Bayer vs Angry Beekeepers” battle cuz i suspect beekeepers don’t have that much mojo – mab .. read more