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Re:Influential study on glyphosate safety retracted 25 years... by Aurornis on Friday December 05, 2025 @03:07PM (#46166576)
> Trust the science.

I haven't kept up with research. Do you have any actual science showing that glyphosate is a carcinogen?

Retraction of a paper doesn't automatically mean the opposite is true. It doesn't make Dr. Oz's methods right.

Using the retraction of a paper to elevate a known pseudoscience pusher who constantly makes claims without scientific basis is intellectually dishonest. It's a common tactic among pseudoscience and alternative medicine peddlers who think that any loss for the other side is validation for their beliefs.

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Re:Influential study on glyphosate safety retracted 25 years... by CGMthrowaway on Friday December 05, 2025 @04:08PM (#46167343)
Non-Hodgkin lymphoma odds ratio 1.41-1.45 (AKA 41-45% higher relative risk): https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31342895/

NHL odds ratio 2.26: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/18623080/

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/12937207/

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8082925/

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Re:Influential study on glyphosate safety retracted 25 years... by LorenPechtel on Saturday December 06, 2025 @05:36PM (#46177208)
Am I missing something about the last one?

Sample size: 867 cases. 2.2% exposed. Rounds to being 19 of those were exposed. How can they compute odds ratios like that with such a small sample?

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