Read GLP’s Jon Entine’s Reddit Science ‘Ask Me Anything’ on pesticides and the ‘bee-pocalypse’

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On December 13, Jon Entine, GLP director, held a Reddit Science “Ask Me Anything” entitled Pesticides, Bees and Pollinator Health. You can read the transcript here.

Science AMA Series: I’m Jon Entine, Executive Director of the Genetic Literacy Project, here to discuss the exaggerated claims that we are facing a Bee-apocalypse caused by pesticides, AMA! from science

 

For background on the bee health controversy, read GLP’s Beepocalypse Myth Handbook: Dissecting claims of pollinator collapse here.

For more information on the bee controversy, we have compiled a list of archived GLP articles and resources here.

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