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Date: Sun, 22 Jun 1997
From: Andy Nachbaur <andy.nachbaur@beenet.com>
Organization: WILD BEE'S BBS (209) 826-8107 LOS BANOS, CA
Subject: PLAGIARISM in USDA Bee Research
FYI* from a post to the sci.agriculture.beekeeping
news group.
PLAGIARISM or What?
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Check this out to get an idea of what I am saying:
http://www.ars.usda.gov/is/pr/1997/beecells0597.htm
or if you support PDF reading then try:
http://www.ars.usda.gov/is/AR/archive/may97/honey.pdf
In my humble opinion, IMHO...
If you go to this site you will find some very interesting information
on cell size and how it can and does effect the health of your
honeybees. This is good information and has been a long time
in coming, but..
The information in this news release attributed to Dr. Erickson,
the leader of the Tucson, Arizona ARS Bee Lab, and based on work
done by him and/or others at his lab. This information is now
being picked up by the farm press and news services and spread
as the GOSPEL according to the best of USDA Bee Research (BS)
science.
Nothing wrong with this or the information except for one little
small detail.
The information contained is not the work product of, or the
original idea of anyone connected to the USDA, ARS, or USDA Beekeeping
Research. You would never know it by reading the information
on this page or the so called NEWS stories now making the rounds
in the agricultural press based on the USDA ARS News releases
about Dr. Erickson and his work at the Bee Lab in Tucson.
Copying or using someone else's idea's and work is a violation
of federal and world copyright laws and is a crime. This includes
the duplication of the ideas and work of others no matter what
their personal station in life. We all know that we beekeepers
are not in the same class as some of our public servants, such
as the so called Beekeeping Scientist (BS). I am sure that this
USDA Research branch of ARS will defend themselves by saying
we did not write the PRESS release or some such lamer excuse,
but this won't wash as they do control the information in their
own press releases and web pages and the facts are they did not
even share the credit for the information contained in the press
release or on their web pages and that is clear to the public
or anyone who wants to read or visit them and/or read this official
government information.
You can be sure if this was information from the chemical industry
they would have been sure to have shared the credit..but then
we all know the close connection of the chemical industry to
the so called bee research industry in the ARS.
Who cares anyway?, well I am sure the beekeeper's involved who
have spent several generations working in their bees and first
noticed and brought it to the attention of those in the Beekeeping
Industry and Beekeeping Research at the USDA that the cell size
of our foundation is too large, and have themselves been using
smaller sized foundations for years, (something that could be
adjusted by the foundation manufactures in a few weeks), do care,
if only because so many in both the beekeeping industry and beekeeping
research have turned a deaf ear to their ideas and cries for
help in the past only now to read that the USDA Bee Research
under Dr. Erickson have discovered what they have known, worked
with, written about and talked about for years...thats the work
of those who PLAGIARIZE or steal from the writing and work of
others, IMHO..how easy it would have been to say because of work
and ideas from such and such beekeepers in our area we have been
able to duplicate and replicate work that they are doing or have
done in the past and found out using the best scientific mythology
that they were right all along, Thank You, Mr. and Mrs. Beekeeper.
On a cold day in Hell, maybe....!
ttul, the OLd Drone
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