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If this effect is real, can you link to animal studies conclusively demonstrating it? Because obviously we've been feeding a lot of rats a lot of glyphosate.

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Well there's https://www.cornucopia.org/2017/01/glyphosate-harmful-rats-l... but I suppose fatty liver disease is not as serious as cancer...Wash your vegetables before eating.

EDIT: I think it's prudent to wash vegetables to clean off any herbicides and other chemicals even if they are "known" to be harmless.

You can't wash off chemicals that are absorbed by the plant systemically, like glysophate.

Note how the press release on this study, from Kings College London, done in 2017, calls it "the first to show a causative link between consumption of Roundup at a real-world environmental dose and a serious disease condition."

Sure, only around 15 years too late.

http://people.csail.mit.edu/seneff/ITX_2013_06_04_Seneff.pdf

Regarding that Senneff cite:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9281240

Two ad hominems.

Here's a possibility. The scientific social networks consist of people who's research is paid for by the same corporations/government agencies with inherent conflicts of interest.

Yes. Every credentialed scientist in the field is bought and paid for by Monsanto. Only the computer scientists can be trusted. That sounds about right for HN logic.

> Yes. Every credentialed scientist in the field is bought and paid for by Monsanto.

I only raised a real possibility that is not factored in the two bullet points. Conflict of Interest. We assume that scientists are somehow immune & should not be questioned, particularly when there is evidence contracting their conclusions.

Nothing to do with HN logic. From what it looks like, you are far more of the HN maven than I am...

> I think it's prudent to wash vegetables to clean off any herbicides and other chemicals even if they are "known" to be harmless.

you're gonna have a real hard time getting all the chemicals off your veggies using dihydrogen monoxide, what with its high boiling point. i suggest using formaldehyde instead.

High boiling point of water is irrelevant for solubility of veggie chemicals. What matters is hydrophilic/hydrophobic qualities. My suggestion would be to start with water, GI through methanol, acetonitrile, chloroform and end up with a good fatty oil, maybe olive oil. Remember to rinse if the oil with soap as the final step.

Or maybe get some veggies that don't have the chemicals on them in the first place?

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