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Does anyone have any links to the various relevant studies mentioned in this article? I'm disinclined to take the word of a popsci rag on anything.

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It's a Reuters article republished on Scientific American. http://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-cancer-iarc-exclusi...

It doesn't appear that they have released information on the actual studies at this time.

So it doesn't seem to be about the actual research documents:

had been approached by interested parties, including lawyers representing Monsanto [..] and asked to release private emails as well as draft scientific documents

Here's the link to the WHO report: http://monographs.iarc.fr/ENG/Monographs/vol112/index.php

Thanks for the link. From the summary of findings on page 78: "Glyphosate is probably carcinogenic to humans (Group 2A)."

From page 22 of the preamble: the category Group 2A "is used when there is limited evidence of carcinogenicity in humans and sufficient evidence of carcinogenicity in experimental animals".

http://monographs.iarc.fr/ENG/Monographs/vol112/mono112-F06....

Also :

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_IARC_Group_2A_carcinog...

Something may also be classified as 2A when "Exceptionally, an agent may be classified in this group solely on the basis of limited evidence of carcinogenicity in humans." Which I think Glyphosate falls into.

Thanks very much!

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