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> the anti-glyphosate crowd has completely failed for the last 40 years to provide any definitive proof that it causes cancer

Have they? https://www.reuters.com/article/us-monsanto-cancer-lawsuit-i...

“ A California jury on Friday found Monsanto liable in a lawsuit filed by a man who alleged the company’s glyphosate-based weed-killers, including Roundup, caused his cancer and ordered the company to pay $289 million in damages.”



Where is this case nowadays?


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I don’t find it funny. Monsanto had a huge team of high priced lawyers, and all the corrupt junk science they paid for, against this lone nobody and their case was so bad they /still/ lost.


That's still not scientific evidence though. The legal process operates on entirely different principles. A jury is not peer review, and the lawyers get to choose which facts to reveal and which might cause PR nightmares and are best left out.


They had expert witnesses, but for the sake of discussion here’s an example of peer review: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S13835...


Well, good! Next time, start with that! :D




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