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If what you say is true, we would know almost nothing about pharmacology and modern medicine wouldn't exist. There are basic scientific and statistical methods
by smt88 11mo ago
If what you say is true, we would know almost nothing about pharmacology and modern medicine wouldn't exist.
There are basic scientific and statistical methods to avoid this.
- pfdietz 11mo agoThere are, but there are also strong incentives for what amounts to fraud, on both sides. Glyphosate has become both highly politicized -- it's used as an argument against GMOs -- and subject to concerted and lucrative legal attack. At the same time, the patent is expired, so the motivation to continue to defend it has waned. If anything, herbicide producers would now benefit if a cheap, public domain chemical were illegitimately banned in favor of more expensive chemicals still under patent protection. Even when supposedly honest scientists publish, it's often wrong. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Why_Most_Published_Research_Findings_Are_False https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Why_Most_Published_Research_Fi...
- earlyreturns 11mo agoThis was and probably still is true about tobacco. Personally, I choose to not smoke.
- pfdietz 11mo agoThe evidence against tobacco was overwhelming.
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- cbolton 11mo ago> the patent is expired, so the motivation to continue to defend it has waned. If anything, herbicide producers would now benefit if a cheap, public domain chemical were illegitimately banned in favor of more expensive chemicals still under patent protection That doesn't square with the fact that Monsanto thought it worthwhile to commit scientific fraud to push the narrative that glyphosate is safe, in a scientific paper published the same year that the patent expired.
- pfdietz 11mo agoThey had patents on Roundup Ready seeds. Those patents have also now expired.