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Are Mobile Phones Wiping Out Bees?

Posted by Zonk on from the oh-i-hope-this-isn't-a-late-april-fools-joke dept.

Mz6 wrote with a link to an article on The Independent site about a most unusual scientific theory. "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."

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  1. Re:Netcraft confirms: The bees are dying by alienmole · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I'm really disturbed by the degree of originality in these "Netcraft confirms - X is dying" posts lately. I remember a time when these cut & paste jobs were just that: cut and paste the original comment with some minor changes of "BSD" for e.g. "bee". But this new breed of "X is dying" posts contain all sorts of relevant information, as though someone actually spent time and effort writing them. What is Slashdot coming to? If we're not careful, we'll soon start seeing original jokes, and then where will we be?