Dec 11, 2021 05:15 AM
https://www.science20.com/content/glypho...are_people
INTRO: A jury in San Bernardino can't believe that Donnetta Stephens’ cancer was caused because she used Roundup.
In a post-COVID-19 world, even California, the most anti-science state in the union, which once tried to ban Happy Meals and Golf and claimed the science was on their side, with "may cause cancer" labels on 165,000 products, including the buildings the products are sold in, is no longer willing to accept that plants are people. The Bayer company has won another glyphosate case, even with a jury that can be swayed using emotion.
Glyphosate, the active ingredient in Roundup, has a chemical that only acts in plants. Plants are not people. That did not stop the "endocrine disruption" community, trial-lawyer-funded epidemiologists inside France's International Agency for Research on Cancer, and then astroturf groups like US Right To Know and their handlers at Organic Consumers Association from claiming that some magical "chemical cocktail" created by repeated use might be possible to harm humans.
Unless you fall into a vat of it and can't get out, it is not possible... (MORE)
INTRO: A jury in San Bernardino can't believe that Donnetta Stephens’ cancer was caused because she used Roundup.
In a post-COVID-19 world, even California, the most anti-science state in the union, which once tried to ban Happy Meals and Golf and claimed the science was on their side, with "may cause cancer" labels on 165,000 products, including the buildings the products are sold in, is no longer willing to accept that plants are people. The Bayer company has won another glyphosate case, even with a jury that can be swayed using emotion.
Glyphosate, the active ingredient in Roundup, has a chemical that only acts in plants. Plants are not people. That did not stop the "endocrine disruption" community, trial-lawyer-funded epidemiologists inside France's International Agency for Research on Cancer, and then astroturf groups like US Right To Know and their handlers at Organic Consumers Association from claiming that some magical "chemical cocktail" created by repeated use might be possible to harm humans.
Unless you fall into a vat of it and can't get out, it is not possible... (MORE)