Monsanto ordered to pay 2B dollars to couple with cancer

Re:Monsanto ordered to pay 2B dollars to couple with cancer by wyxuan on Tuesday May 14, 2019 @10:49AM (#19910053)

That's not true. There have been many studies indicating a possible link between Roundup and cancer, which is why it was listed as"possible carcinogen"and even banned in France. Besides, Monsanto even tried to make studies that showed no link between the two. Science does matter

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Re:Monsanto ordered to pay 2B dollars to couple with cancer by bluGill on Tuesday May 14, 2019 @10:59AM (#19910154)

Science does matter. The evidence is roundup doesn't cause cancer. When something is studied a lot you will find outliers that show the wrong result.

Monsanto was evil (they don't exist anymore, though bayer may well be worse) doesn't mean that they are wrong.

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Re:Monsanto ordered to pay 2B dollars to couple with cancer by loudtieblahblah on Tuesday May 14, 2019 @11:39AM (#19910554)

i wish i could dump a gallon of roundup on everyone who's so cocksure. Honestly.

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Re:Monsanto ordered to pay 2B dollars to couple with cancer by bluGill on Tuesday May 14, 2019 @11:53AM (#19910671)

Just don't get it in my eyes or down my lungs. It is safer than the vinegar I have in my kitchen...

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Re:Monsanto ordered to pay 2B dollars to couple with cancer by loudtieblahblah on Tuesday May 14, 2019 @03:13PM (#19912859)

Those Monsanto checks keeping your heat on or something?

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Re:Monsanto ordered to pay 2B dollars to couple with cancer by legohead on Tuesday May 14, 2019 @11:04AM (#19910204)

there's a big difference between "possible" and "probable"

radio waves are classified as possible carcinogens.

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Re:Monsanto ordered to pay 2B dollars to couple with cancer by legitster on Tuesday May 14, 2019 @11:01AM (#19910179)

It's on the list of "possible carcinogens" along with coffee, red meat, and 'very hot beverages'.

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Re:Monsanto ordered to pay 2B dollars to couple with cancer by Mvandenbergh on Tuesday May 14, 2019 @11:28AM (#19910452)

Preserved meat is IARC category 1, "carcinogenic" Red meat is IARC category 2a "probably carcinogenic" as is "very hot beverages above 65C" Coffee is IARC 3 "Not classifiable as to its carcinogenicity to humans"

Glyphosate is 2a, "probably carcinogenic".

Note that the IARC categories are not very useful by themselves because they are only non-quantitative assessments of whether the evidence supports carcinogenicity, they are not assessments of how carcinogenic a substance actually is.

Certainly there is no evidence that glyphosate is some horrific, world ending super toxin. Some studies have found that there is an elevated cancer risk with extensive occupational exposure, other studies have not found that.

If I was going to do a cancer risk audit of my own life, reducing or eliminating the use of glyphosate from my own garden would not be on the top 50 things I would do.

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