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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 (#20667919)
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...

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Re:Insect 'apocalypse' in U.S. driven by 50x increase in tox... by aldoushuxley001 on Sunday August 11, 2019 @11:49AM (#20668653)
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...

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