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Paul Stamets has a possible solution to help the bees. https://fungi.com/blogs/articles/bee-friendly-research-update-3 https://fungi.com/blogs/articles/bee-fri

Paul Stamets has a possible solution to help the bees. https://fungi.com/blogs/articles/bee-friendly-research-update-3 https://fungi.com/blogs/articles/bee-friendly-research-updat... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_lqIUlON1s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_lqIUlON1s https://beemushroomed.com/ https://beemushroomed.com/ To truly save bees (native and cultivated) we need more variety of crops in range of hives to provide longer periods of food availability. Commercial pollinators have "fixed" the monoculture blossom desert problem by trucking bees in to areas that have a crop that needs pollinating.

JPKab 7y ago
I really like Paul Stamets, but he suffers from classic hammer syndrome. If I told him I had a broken leg, he'd tell me about a fungi that mends bones. That being said, skeptics on his fungal research for treatments of numerous diseases should remind themselves that penicillin comes from a fungus, and there's some very legitimate science around psilocybin based cures. His thoughts on anti-viral fungi helping save bee populations seem very valid, but I'd like to see more peer reviewed research.
- tastyfreeze 7y ago
  Isn't that what we are all expected to do? Apply our expertise and experience to the world to make it a better place. This man is obsessed with fungi. Can't blame him for trying to find novel uses for his obsession. But he isn't going to hand you a bag of mushrooms if there isn't data to back up the claim it will heal your bones. He may suffer from hammer syndrome but he backs up his claims with experimental data. His bee research is fairly new. His research into human medicinal mushrooms has been reinforced by multiple studies around the world.
- RosanaAnaDana 7y ago
  Like I hate writing people off due to tangential issues, but when the dude comes in wearing a mushroom for a hat and that we could all just use mushrooms for hats...

JPKab 7y ago

I really like Paul Stamets, but he suffers from classic hammer syndrome. If I told him I had a broken leg, he'd tell me about a fungi that mends bones. That being said, skeptics on his fungal research for treatments of numerous diseases should remind themselves that penicillin comes from a fungus, and there's some very legitimate science around psilocybin based cures. His thoughts on anti-viral fungi helping save bee populations seem very valid, but I'd like to see more peer reviewed research.

tastyfreeze 7y ago
Isn't that what we are all expected to do? Apply our expertise and experience to the world to make it a better place. This man is obsessed with fungi. Can't blame him for trying to find novel uses for his obsession. But he isn't going to hand you a bag of mushrooms if there isn't data to back up the claim it will heal your bones. He may suffer from hammer syndrome but he backs up his claims with experimental data. His bee research is fairly new. His research into human medicinal mushrooms has been reinforced by multiple studies around the world.
RosanaAnaDana 7y ago
Like I hate writing people off due to tangential issues, but when the dude comes in wearing a mushroom for a hat and that we could all just use mushrooms for hats...