Monsanto is facing lawsuits filed by some 4,000 people who believe themselves or loved ones have gotten cancer from the Monsanto-famous herbicide product RoundUp. Glyphosate is one of the main ingredients in RoundUp, and Monsanto has downplayed the possible role glyphosate has in causing cancer. New evidence is showing that not only has Monsanto down played glyphosate's harm affects, but the "independent" science they were using happened to not really be "independent."
One of the "independent" sources came from Academics Review, an organization founded by two scientists. Two scientists who have been captured by corporations. Tax records show that the Council for Biotechnology Information (CBI) is their primary funder. CBI is funded by large agrichemical corporations BASF, Bayer, DowDuPont, Monsanto, and Syngenta. Academics Review, and groups similar to themselves, would use each other's work to do their masters bidding.
On top of using groups like Academics Review, Monsanto has led a campaign attacking the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), threatening them in ways that they hope might cause those working at the agency to feel too intimidated from continuing their work. Furthermore, according to Bloomberg news, someone working inside the EPA was trying to prevent the agency from conducting a study on the possible harmful affects of RoundUp.
If Monsanto didn't think their product didn't cause cancer, they wouldn't need to use corporate slaves like Academic Review. If RoundUp was fine, they wouldn't be threating the IARC. Conservatives like to bitch about the so-called tyranny of the EPA, meanwhile corporations are poisoning us. This is what you get in a for-profit culture. This is what you get when science is beholden to capitalism.
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