Bayer hit with $332M judgement in Roundup cancer trial

Re:Bayer hit with $332M judgement in Roundup cancer trial by andrewjl on Friday November 03, 2023 @09:17PM (#38137114)

> I hope the settlement hits trillions. Burn the fuckers down.

Hoping on the sidelines gets you nowhere. Laws need to be changed to end the presumption in many jurisdictions that a lack of safety data equates to a benign substance.

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Re:Bayer hit with $332M judgement in Roundup cancer trial by dymk on Friday November 03, 2023 @10:02PM (#38137375)

Thanks for the insight, super helpful.

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Re:Bayer hit with $332M judgement in Roundup cancer trial by gruez on Saturday November 04, 2023 @01:05AM (#38138320)

But roundup has tons of safety data in favor of it?

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Re:Bayer hit with $332M judgement in Roundup cancer trial by monodeldiablo on Saturday November 04, 2023 @05:46PM (#38145490)

But it really doesn't. What it has is a lot of industry-funded "research" muddying the waters with ambiguous or misleading results.

When I worked at Monsanto, the mantra was that __the burden of proof was on those alleging harm__.

I don't know about you, but I expect a higher standard from the system that regulates the food I put in my body.

Broad spectrum pesticides are terribly complex to test and it should take years if not decades to properly prove them safe for agricultural use and human consumption.

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