BeeGate: How Green Campaigners Subverted Science, by David Zaruk.

Almost ten years ago, when there were indications of stresses on honeybee populations (known as colony collapse disorder …), different activists were jockeying for the right to claim this crisis for their campaigns.

Climate activists wanted to show bees were suffering because of warmer weather; biodiversity campaigners saw land-use issues as the source for the crisis; anti-GMO stalwarts wanted us to know there was something unknown in the pollen; anti-EMF fear-mongers wanted to highlight the confusion bees suffered due to our love of mobile technology.

Nobody mentioned the main causes (cold winters and Varroa mite) … seriously, who would donate to that??? …

Watching this crisis unfold, the Risk-Monger saw an enormous amount of unethical, unscientific and unacceptable behaviour from the save-the-bees groups.

This is the story of BeeGate — how activist scientists and seasoned campaigners used Age of Stupid tactics to trick policymakers, seduce the media and terrify the public — litigious liars and lamentable fear-mongers have caused incomprehensible damage to the public trust in dialogue, science and policy. Winning might be everything to these activists, but destroying food security and trust in policy and science hardly merits such hypocrisy!