I don't know about the science of it, either, but I know
that didn't come out of(PDF)
nowhere last month, which is a pretty good clue that he's full of shit. So not only does he fail to even acknowledge the scope of the criticisms, but then he spends a bunch of words trying to paint the detractors as a bunch of silly, uninformed dolts who just think bees are cute because they're stripey.
Those kind of things are big indicators of that corporate tactic of trying to slap some kind of 'skeptical' filter on their propaganda, to make readers feel smarter than the detractors. That's exactly what they did with those HFCS commercials and with that big trend for a while where anyone who had a problem with big chemical was just afraid of the sciencey sounding chemicals because they were all just stupid. And it looks like what they're doing here, too.