Re:Insect 'apocalypse' in U.S. driven by 50x increase in tox...
by mhkool on Sunday August 11, 2019 @08:33AM
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I base my opinion on three court cases in the USA where evidence was borught to court that Monsanto knew many years ago about the cancer causing risks. on what do you base "this is simply a lie" ?
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Re:Insect 'apocalypse' in U.S. driven by 50x increase in tox...
by pfdietz on Sunday August 11, 2019 @08:43AM
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Court cases are not good ways to determine science. In a particularly egregious case in the 1980s, for example, a jury returned a verdict for a defendant in which it was claimed that a head injury in a car accident led to lung cancer.
Scientifically, there is no good evidence that Roundup causes cancer.
https://www.snopes.com/news/2018/08/17/cancer-juries-scienti...
Re:Insect 'apocalypse' in U.S. driven by 50x increase in tox...
by aldoushuxley001 on Sunday August 11, 2019 @11:49AM
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Please don’t cite snopes, it’s the worst possible citation you can give.
Here’s a better citation: IARC (the World Health Organization’s cancer research division) conducted a review with 20 international experts of all the publicly available research on glyphosate and found that it does indeed likely cause cancer: https://www.iarc.fr/featured-news/media-centre-iarc-news-gly...
Re:Insect 'apocalypse' in U.S. driven by 50x increase in tox...
by dekhn on Sunday August 11, 2019 @09:45AM
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court cases like that don't mean anything, they're super biased by what lawyers make up as a narrative.
Re:Insect 'apocalypse' in U.S. driven by 50x increase in tox...
by lonelappde on Sunday August 11, 2019 @09:30AM
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Whether roundup is safe or not is not clear to me, but the decision of 12 unwilling laymen with no access to independent research tools is certainly not credible.