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Re:Pesticides Could Be Making People Fat by driverdan on Wednesday August 07, 2019 @03:15PM (#20637900)
It lost me at the opening sentence.

> It’s banned in several countries around the world, it’s a probable carcinogen, and it can cause severe kidney and liver damage, as well as birth defects, brain abnormalities, and mental illnesses.

This is terribly skewed, unscientific writing. Next time consult someone who knows about the science behind glyphosate before writing about it.

Re:Pesticides Could Be Making People Fat by rhacker on Wednesday August 07, 2019 @03:56PM (#20638259)
Re:Pesticides Could Be Making People Fat by refurb on Wednesday August 07, 2019 @04:22PM (#20638534)
Just because you can find a paper, doesn't mean it supports the fact quoted.

Your article on carcinogenic - However, given the heterogeneity between the studies included, the numerical risk estimates should be interpreted with caution.

Your article on liver disease - you left out the title "in patients with fatty liver disease"

Kidney disease - association, not causation

Birth defects - from the conclusions "In this paper, we propose that glyphosate's chelation of Mn..may explain the recent increase in incidence of multiple neurological diseases and other pathologies."

Hardly definitive conclusions.

Re:Pesticides Could Be Making People Fat by rhacker on Wednesday August 07, 2019 @05:49PM (#20639516)
I wouldn't suggest we have a conclusion either, but what is the acceptable risk, in your family, for example, would you eat glyphosate?
Re:Pesticides Could Be Making People Fat by refurb on Thursday August 08, 2019 @09:16AM (#20644189)
Based on glyphosate’s relative risk compared to other pesticides, disease causing bacteria or heavy metal contamination, it just doesn’t rank very high at all.
Re:Pesticides Could Be Making People Fat by asimpletune on Wednesday August 07, 2019 @03:21PM (#20637951)
I don’t know anything about this subject. What is the correct way to understand it?
Re:Pesticides Could Be Making People Fat by driverdan on Wednesday August 07, 2019 @03:47PM (#20638168)
Glyphosate is the safest and most effective herbicide to date. Countries banning it has nothing to do with the science behind it. The WHO classified it as a probable carcinogen based on a single flawed study. The rest of the claims are not backed by research.
Re:Pesticides Could Be Making People Fat by thatcat on Wednesday August 07, 2019 @10:45PM (#20641375)
So why are countries banning it then?
Re:Pesticides Could Be Making People Fat by krageon on Thursday August 08, 2019 @05:26AM (#20642970)
If it isn't because the science supports it, why is that important? Countries do weird things for the wrong reasons all the time. The Swedish government says the sale and consumption of MSG is "unwise" because it "might be bad", even though there is absolutely no scientific support for it. I'm sure you could find many, many examples of similar problems in practice and it does not take a whole lot of thinking to realise it might impact other areas as well.
Re:Pesticides Could Be Making People Fat by thatcat on Friday August 09, 2019 @09:45AM (#20654233)
I mean its not like science could ever be politically biased /s
Re:Pesticides Could Be Making People Fat by driverdan on Thursday August 08, 2019 @06:44PM (#20649643)
Politics.
Re:Pesticides Could Be Making People Fat by coldtea on Wednesday August 07, 2019 @03:26PM (#20637995)
Pretty much what the article says.
Re:Pesticides Could Be Making People Fat by pjc50 on Wednesday August 07, 2019 @03:55PM (#20638252)
Which of those statements are false?