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RE: Birds, bees, mobile phones, and the apocalypse
by Decius at 5:44 pm EDT, Apr 15, 2007

Rattle wrote:

It seems like the plot of a particularly far-fetched horror film. But some scientists suggest that our love of the mobile phone could cause massive food shortages, as the world's harvests fail.

They are putting forward the theory that radiation given off by mobile phones and other hi-tech gadgets is a possible answer to one of the more bizarre mysteries ever to happen in the natural world - the abrupt disappearance of the bees that pollinate crops. Late last week, some bee-keepers claimed that the phenomenon - which started in the US, then spread to continental Europe - was beginning to hit Britain as well.

The theory is that radiation from mobile phones interferes with bees' navigation systems, preventing the famously homeloving species from finding their way back to their hives. Improbable as it may seem, there is now evidence to back this up.

I don't find this shocking.

For the record, I think this is bullshit. I googled around this story and there is a lot of dissent about this explanation. Its most likely a virus.

RE: Birds, bees, mobile phones, and the apocalypse


 
 
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