Presidential hopeful Mike Huckabee might just be the perfect candidate. With a preference for myth over truth and a willingness to publicly parade his ignorance, he’ll fit right in at the White House. The myth that science has ‘proven’ that bumblebees can’t fly is entirely without foundation. The origins of the myth are obscure - it may have originated at a dinner party in Germany in the 1930s when an aerodynamicist, chatting to a biologist, made some very quick calculations on the back of a napkin, using calculations based on a grossly simplified set of conditions and (probably joking) said something to the effect that, by his calculations, bumblebees were unable to fly. There are other versions of the origins of this fairytale, some going back further. All are equally fallacious. However the myth started, that’s all it is. Not only is science perfectly capable of proving that they can fly, it has the knowledge to show precisely how they fly, and in very great detail.