Honeybees and cellphones II

Well it's a wonder the interest that my post about cellphone effects on honeybees generated. I find it a mystery and continue to scratch my head. The sample size is still extremely small, but it makes me wonder about what's going on out there.
I confess, I started this blog in hopes of getting some buyers for my books - that was rather foolish - not as a science blog. But as a scientist I can't help but comment occasionally on things scientific and pseudoscientific. The pseudoscientific prickles me more, no doubt.
Anyway, I encountered another study claiming to show the negative effects of cellphone usage on honeybee fitness. Unlike the previous study, this one has not appeared in countless blog posts, for reasons not immediately apparent.
Also unlike the previous study, this one actually DID show negative effects on hive function and reproduction.
Unfortunately, it really doesn't mean very much.
Firstly, in scientific experiments we like to have replication - repeated executions of the same experiment at the same time under the same conditions - to account for random deviations from a result reflecting a real phenomenon - this one only had 2.
Piss-poor.
We like to have statistical tests of significance as well - does it really mean anything, or is it just chance? - something that's hard to do with N = 2 replications. This was not done, of course.
But other than that there wasn't anything too horrible about the science in this study...except that it is IRRELEVANT!
Cellphones are not found inside honeybee hives! However well designed a study might be, if it replicates nothing resembling reality it is not likely to be of much use.
It doesn't help that that the researchers appear to have already reached a conclusion prior to collecting any data by repeatedly referring to 'electrosmog' in their introduction.

As before, read it yourself:

media.withtank.com/a49823b5aa.pdf