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This is not a very convincing connection. All they established is that glyphosate is hanging around in water wells longer than expected. There was no causal con
by mvdtnz 3y ago
This is not a very convincing connection. All they established is that glyphosate is hanging around in water wells longer than expected. There was no causal connection found, no dose-response, nothing. They didn't even test water sources in regions without the CKDu epidemic to falsify the hypothesis.
- hammock 3y ago>They didn't even test water sources in regions without the CKDu epidemic to falsify the hypothesis They did... "the researchers found significantly higher levels of the herbicide in 44% of wells within the affected areas versus just 8% of those outside it."
- mvdtnz 3y agoAh thank you, I missed that in my reading of the piece. I will need to dig into the study itself to see how significant the "higher readings" are and how closely they track CKDu, I won't have time for that until later today.
- gniv 3y agoThey had reason to suspect glyphosate due to previous studies. Ex: https://www.mdpi.com/1660-4601/18/6/3278 https://www.mdpi.com/1660-4601/18/6/3278