News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on Monsanto Weedkiller Is ‘Probably Carcinogenic,’ WHO Says. Parent comment

Re:Monsanto Weedkiller Is ‘Probably Carcinogenic,’ WHO Says by kbutler on Saturday March 28, 2015 @11:33AM (#9281764)
We know that sunshine is carcinogenic.

Is a farm worker more likely to contract cancer from the 8 hours/day exposure to sunshine, or to glyphosate?

I personally have no idea, but I think it would be an interesting measure.

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Monsanto Weedkiller Is ‘Probably Carcinogenic,’ WHO Says by kbutler on Saturday March 28, 2015 @02:40PM (#9282308)
I can't edit my post above, but here is the International Agency for Research on Cancer list of "known" carcinogens (group 1, including "solar radiation") and "probable" carcinogens (group 2A, including glyphosate).

http://monographs.iarc.fr/ENG/Classification/Classifications...

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Monsanto Weedkiller Is ‘Probably Carcinogenic,’ WHO Says by jp555 on Sunday March 29, 2015 @09:05AM (#9284675)
Difficult to test. What if some workers are chronicly sleep deprived and that contribution was the tipping point for some of them, but not all sleep deprived workers? What if some workers are chronicly anxious, causing sustained elevated stress hormones that combined with other factors put them over the tipping point? So many possible confounding variables
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Monsanto Weedkiller Is ‘Probably Carcinogenic,’ WHO Says by dragonwriter on Saturday March 28, 2015 @04:28PM (#9282643)
Er, why? The choice isn't between sunlight and no glyphosphate and glyphosphate and no sunshine, so there is no real reason to compare them except to make irrelevant propaganda points.
[ Parent | on HN ]