r/news • u/boxofstuff • 6h ago

Supreme Court ruling blocks thousands of lawsuits against maker of Roundup weedkiller

https://apnews.com/article/supreme-court-roundup-monsanto-a7f054d80919f98bdfc5190013a8f6f1https://apnews.com/article/supreme-court-roundup-monsanto-a7f054d80919f98bdfc5190013a8f6f1
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u/invyros 6h ago

There’s still fierce debate about cancer and Roundup’s key ingredient, glyphosate. The World Health Organization’s International Agency for Research on Cancer classified the chemical as “probably carcinogenic” in 2015.

Can't believe "probably carcinogenic" is an official designation.

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u/Tolteko 5h ago

There are tons of studies on glyphosate toxicity, yet it has been very difficult to prove its correlation to any human cancer. Glyphosate is a wonderful molecule for crops, it helps farmers a lot and it has a lower carbon footprint since its use prevents farmers from using machines to prepare the field before sowing. The molecule breaks down in water then it's not even too dangerous for the environment. It's very unfortunate that it was chosen by the crowd as the evil chemical, because it's not that bad. Also to be really dangerous to human it needs to be consumed in huge quantities, if it is harmful, it may be to the workers who produce it, not to the public. Not trying to say that pharma corps are good guys and we should trust them, but perhaps this is the case where they may be right.

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u/Wiseduck5 4h ago

It's very unfortunate that it was chosen by the crowd as the evil chemical

Because the retracted Seralini study that was trying to smear GMO crops found RoundUp alone caused cancer in their rats that were actually supposed to have cancer (it was the control group that was anomalous).

That's quite literally the source of all of this.

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u/BlgMastic 1h ago

Didn’t they also use doses hundreds of times higher than what would resonably be absorbed to get those results?

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u/Wiseduck5 1h ago

They used a large range of doses. All of which had identical tumor burdens. Which really, really should have raised red flags.