Some scientist are foreseeing massive starvation in 4 years due to cell phones. Should they be banned?

Question

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. Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD) occurs when a hive's inhabitants suddenly disappear, leaving only queens, eggs and a few immature workers, like so many apian Mary Celestes.

Answer 1

No, because so far it's only a few scientists with limited data.

It's not like global warming, where there's a mountain of peer reviewed data, and 99+% of scientists think it's a proven fact.

Do you have a primary source for the Einstein quote?  I just see it asserted on the Net with no real basis, just random people quoting each other.

Answer 2

Undoubtedly, mankind will continue to have adverse effects on Mother Nature as we grow and develop technologies.  Now that we are aware of any effects we have on the bee population, I have no doubt that we will place them into breeding / captivity / farms and create more and more to be released into the wild.  I have concern when mankind does something and then sticks his head in the sand and says that we are not causing harm.  As long as we are aware, we can do something to make things better.

Answer 3

It's not "some scientists". ONE group did an experiment in which they placed cellphones in/near hives and claimed an effect on the learning capabilities of bees. They specifically denied any relationship between what they are researching and colony collapse disorder.

Answer 4

You're wrong, the theory's wrong, and the quote's wrong.

Answer 5

Has alien abduction been explored for the missing bees? None have never been found....

You do know that Einstein was the source of the 4 year comment and even that has a dubious history as an urban myth.

Answer 6

I think the bigger problem with disappearing bees has everything to do with "Bee Mites". In reality, whatever radiation emmited from the use of cell phones and their associated towers would harm us before the bees.

Here is more on the problematic bee mites -

http://www.ca.uky.edu/entomology/entfact...

http://www.biosci.ohio-state.edu/~acarol...