Bees are cute, fuzzy, and they pollinate crops, which means more food for us. So it’s no small wonder that the mass media hysteria surrounding the ‘beepocalypse’ has gained huge traction. It really doesn’t matter that there was no scientific evidence backing the claims being made. It didn’t matter that claims of the honeybee’s demise were premature, and that the honeybee’s disappearance would not, in fact, turn the whole Earth into a starving dust bowl. It sounded good on TV and for most people, that’s where their desire to know things begins and ends.
Reality is something else entirely. I’ve been shouting into the wind about this for coming on five years now, and I have no doubt that this article, like the others I’ve written, read, and contemplated writing, will do nothing to stem the tsunami of deliberate misinformation and ignorance. But I have to try. Because just like the anti-vaxxers, the pro-bee movement is not what it seems on the surface. When there is a concerted effort to whip up mass hysteria, and to ignore the evidence, it’s not just for the publicity.
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