Hive mind: Talking with the man who may save Europe’s bees
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Dave Goulson.
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The ideas pollinated by Goulson and other neonicotinoid researchers recently bore fruit, in the form of a two-year partial ban on the pesticides by the European Union. Having recently released A Sting in the Tale, an autobiographical history of his own research, Goulson spoke with Grist about nature writing, the implications of the E.U. ban, and why farmers keep using pesticides despite the lack of evidence in their favor.
Q. You spend much of the book discussing how you became a researcher, and various adventures youve undergone in the name of science. Why write a work of half-memoir, half-biology in the first place?
A. In Britain, scientists are spectacularly poorly understood. People even our own students at university dont always know how science really happens, or what academic work actually looks like. So I tried to explain what I do.