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Anthony Samel, a chemist researching glyphosate, has already practically proven this weaving is happening.

He is finding glyphosate in everything that has proteins in it. Especially things that contain gelatin, where gelatin is made out of animal collagen, and collagen is the most abundant protein in mammals.

For example gummy bears, protein powders, nutritional supplements, and even in vaccines (several vaccines contain gelatin). So we are eating it, getting injected with it, and it is integrating into our own proteins as well.

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You mean Anthony Samsel ? If so, he's known to have published shoddy research along with Seneff that makes wild claims about glyphosate being the cause of many ills like autism and celiac disease based on correlation and without much evidence

Steven Novella thoroughly debunks this: http://sciencebasedmedicine.org/glyphosate-the-new-bogeyman/

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You do understand that there is a vast financial interest in "debunking" scientific findings like this?

The first red flag that there are corporate interests behind any "debunking" effort is that an actually serious finding is not discussed openly, but various outlets immediately go for the discredit and debunk method.

That's corporate modus operandi 101 for burying inconvenient people and data.

You shouldn't try to generally debunk debunking, becaust it's a completely irrational thing to do. Just explain where a specific criticism fails.

Maybe instead of being cynical about people's motives you should try to go through what they are saying and see if it makes sense or not, or if the evidence its based upon is correct.

"The first red flag that there are corporate interests behind any "debunking" effort is that an actually serious finding is not discussed openly"

So which finding was not discussed properly in the link i posted?

Except Novella's critique is entirely reasonable...

Sometimes those writers have good points, sometimes they engage in propaganda campaigns to protect the medical guild's interests. For example, Hariett Hall is a regular defender science-free psychiatry. Psychiatric residents are trained to think that Wall Street's palliative patent medicines are useful, when the actual science has pointed at causes of many psychiatric disorders since the 1970's.

The anti-psychiatry movement is about to reach a tipping point, /methinks, and the science based medicine folks will have some crow to eat.

The results are fairly easy to find on Google, but I'm disappointed how hard it could be for someone without academic experience to find reasonable summary. This news is a perfect mix of Monsanto, GMO, vaccines, and animal products. The amount baseless speculation is insane...

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