When It Comes To Neonics, Activists Understand PR Better Than Chemical Companies Do - We like to pretend that only corporations will engage in unethical conspiracies, but a group at the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), the world's first - and largest - global environmental organization, with over 1,000 employees in 45 offices and hundreds of partners in government and NGOs, were caught conspiring to manipulate journals, politicians and even other environmental groups to get neonicotinoids, which they are trying to promote as a cause of bee deaths that haven't even happened, banned.

Sadly, it worked, at least in Europe, but Europeans accept science even less than voodoo practitioners so perhaps that isn't surprising.