[giardini]

It's happening b/c

- so many people don't understand statistics or science and

- some beekeepers in Germany wrote a paper. Here's one of the original papers: https://www.farmlandbirds.net/sites/default/files/Orbrioch%2...

The 75% decline number appears to be from two data points from a 220-acre plot.

- People panic, post it here and everywhere else, presuming that:

- proper scientific methodology was used and

- what applies to a 220-acre plot in the German hinterlands must apply to the whole world.