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A key paper on its safety from 2000 was retracted: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46161125 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46161125 Like the tobacco
by keane 5mo ago
A key paper on its safety from 2000 was retracted: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46161125 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46161125
Like the tobacco industry before them, a Monsanto employee proposed producing a scientific paper with outside scientists: “by us doing the writing and they would just edit & sign their names so to speak” — see https://retractionwatch.com/2025/12/04/glyphosate-safety-article-retracted-elsevier-monsanto-ghostwriting/ https://retractionwatch.com/2025/12/04/glyphosate-safety-art...
- tptacek 5mo agoThere isn't one single study that glyphosate safety is based on. It's an intensively studied substance.
- keane 5mo agoI didn’t claim there was only one study. The concern is the corporate culture introducing biases into studies. In the tobacco industry, this was a pattern.
- tptacek 5mo agoThere was overwhelming evidence, some of it preceding modern human health science, that smoking was damaging.
- pfdietz 5mo agoIndeed. It's rare in environmental medicine to see an effect as strong as that from smoking. The straw the tobacco industry clung to for a while (it was debunked) was that people who had cancer smoked to sooth their lungs (or, that cancer caused smoking, not vice versa.)