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A comment on WHO Cancer Agency Asked Experts to Withhold Weed-Killer Documents. Parent comment

Re:WHO Cancer Agency Asked Experts to Withhold Weed-Killer D... by finid on Wednesday October 26, 2016 @03:05PM (#12799429)
How then did they conclude that it's "probably carcinogenic"?

Based on what we know about these things, I actually believe that it is, but lets see how they reached that conclusion. Show us the data.

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Re:WHO Cancer Agency Asked Experts to Withhold Weed-Killer D... by tptacek on Wednesday October 26, 2016 @04:16PM (#12800044)
You believe glyphosate is probably carcinogenic? Why?
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Re:WHO Cancer Agency Asked Experts to Withhold Weed-Killer D... by Retric on Thursday October 27, 2016 @12:48AM (#12802987)
They published the studies they looked at:

http://monographs.iarc.fr/ENG/Monographs/vol112/mono112-09.p...

I would not say it's a clear yes, but there is some evidence for a cancer link across a range of studies.

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Re:WHO Cancer Agency Asked Experts to Withhold Weed-Killer D... by Andys on Wednesday October 26, 2016 @08:52PM (#12802083)
There is also the question of whether they're talking about a direct carcinogenic effect on the personnel applying the Round Up product, versus antibiotic effect on consumers of food containing Round Up residue.
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Re:WHO Cancer Agency Asked Experts to Withhold Weed-Killer D... by jack9 on Wednesday October 26, 2016 @08:47PM (#12802063)
Because every study I've seen uses and SOLELY RELIES on Monsanto supplied data and is usually run by a Monsanto agent (current employ, previous employ, or political friend of Monsanto), although there was one study from Germany that did not have a Monsanto agent and came up with "probably not carcinogenic". You do not get data on how Roundup affects a population, excepting through Monsanto's blessing.
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