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A comment on Amazon.com's Conditions of Use – Disputes now resolved by the courts. Parent comment

Re:Amazon.com's Conditions of Use – Disputes now resolved by... by bluGill on Tuesday July 20, 2021 @09:32AM (#27893461)
They ruled in one case that roundup caused a particular person's cancer. Even though medically 80% of cases of that type of cancer do not have an environmental cause (ie random mutation is responsible for 80% of cases).
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Re:Amazon.com's Conditions of Use – Disputes now resolved by... by josefx on Tuesday July 20, 2021 @10:50AM (#27894443)
So every fifth case has an environmental cause and Monsanto got caught pants down actively interfering with the legally required process^1 that was used to certify their weed killers as not being a environmental hazard, including being a cause for cancer.

^1 The results of independent studies are supposed to act as basis for government approval.

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