Tag: bees
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The Birds, Bees, Fish, and Liars
by Kathleen Marquardt, American Policy Center, ©2022 (Jun. 9, 2022) — Tom Renz just published an article, “Bees Are Officially Fish Per a Court… Seriously”[1], that explains so much. Similar explanations have been written in the past, but today, instead of a scattering of examples, we are so inundated with Newspeak that we must be…
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Correct or Cancel Mom’s Grocery Bag Misinformation
by Paul Driessen, CFACT, ©2022 (Apr. 27, 2022) — I don’t deliberately avoid organic foods or markets, but I don’t seek them out either. Claims that organic food tastes better or is more nutritious are not supported by evidence and certainly don’t justify the far higher prices. Mostly, I’m put off by assertions that organic…
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Ban Neonics – Hurt Farmers and Bees
“WRONGHEADED AND COUNTERPRODUCTIVE” by Paul Driessen, ©2020 (Jul. 12, 2020) — Organic pesticides, and other organic chemicals, are more dangerous to bees … and people The honeybees, bumblebees and other little pollinators swarming over my flowers remind me what important roles they play – and how some misguided folks could inadvertently hurt them. Montgomery County,…
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Bill to Reinstate Obama Pesticide Ban Ignores Science
HOUSE LEGISLATION TO BAN NEONICOTINOIDS IN WILDLIFE REFUGES WOULD HURT BEES AND WILDLIFE by Paul Driessen, ©2019 (Jul. 20, 2019) — The battle over neonicotinoid pesticides rages on. In response to one of many collusive sue-and-settle lawsuits between environmentalist groups and Obama environmental officials, in 2014 the Department of the Interior’s Fish & Wildlife Service…
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Advancing Scientific Integrity on Bees
PUTTING A BEEHIVE AT THE VP’s RESIDENCE COULD SPUR PEOPLE’S UNDERSTANDING OF BEE PROBLEMS by Paul Driessen, ©2017 (Jun. 18, 2017) — Second Lady Karen Pence and Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue recently teamed up to install a honeybee hive on the grounds of the Vice President’s residence at the Naval Observatory in Washington, DC.…
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A Bee in Their Bonnet
ANTI-PESTICIDE ACTIVISTS FALSELY BLAME NEW PESTICIDES FOR BEE COLONY PROBLEMS by Paul Driessen, ©2013 (May 19, 2013) — Chemophobic anti-pesticide groups are at it again. This time they’re attacking a widely used and safe new insecticide, but their assertions and real agendas are nothing new. Radical environmentalism rose to ascendancy on opposition to pesticides, specifically DDT.…