Bayer stock plunges after jury awards man $289M in Roundup cancer trial
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"Overall, our review did not find support in the epidemiologic literature for a causal association between glyphosate and non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma or multiple myeloma."
I'm a natural products scientist and I have looked as closely as I can and I really don't find much reliable data supporting the assertion that glyphosate causes cancer. I avoided using it for quite some time, but I do use it now. I have to live by logic and not hysteria. Many pesticides are bad and dangerous, but glyphosate is as close to a magic bullet that only kills plants that I can find.
I'm far from an expert, but this being in the news has piqued my interest as well, and I haven't seen much that confirms it either:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5705608/
People hate Monsanto, and populism is rife, so the decision wasn't shocking. Amazing that Monsanto managed to sell to Bayer with these lawsuits on the horizon.
There are plenty of reasons to support hating Monsanto. I do as well. Generic versions of Roundup are available from generic type suppliers now and that is where I buy mine.
Of course, trials like this aren't about proving the substance causes harm in a scientific way.
It is so hard for adults to admit they are wrong. Even harder if someone has been advocating for their own side at length. To change opinions, they need to have some acceptable exit strategy (e.g. "company A doesn't make vaccines with dangerous component X anymore, vaccines are safe now thank goodness!").
Vaccines are a gamble. They're hard to make, and when they do, they fail in unexpected ways.
But that's mainly because the immune system is hard to understand, not because adjuvants cause autism.