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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. Zonk - The wall-in-shithouse-journalist by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    Go away, dude. Your kind of storytelling does add nothing to the world of news. You are the wheel that makes fart noises on the Slashdot wagon. We don't want to read the yellow press BS you believe is interesting.

    We are too intelligent for your kind of "journalism". Stop insulting us. Please!

  2. Re:Reasons to believe this is bogus by WgT2 · · Score: 1, Troll

    Great insight.

    That reminds me of how polar bears are the misleading poster child for global warming as well: instead of dying at sea because there's not enough ice, they and their progeny are taking the artic by storm.