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Finally, the Supreme Court Does Something Right

In a 7-2 decision today, the court ruled that Bayer cannot be sued over

state-level claims that the company failed to warn of cancer risks from

its weedkiller Roundup and its original active ingredient glyphosate.

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This ruling effectively blocks thousands of pending and future failureto-

warn lawsuits against Bayer across the country.

Glyphosate is absolutely essential for saving fish and wildlife from alien,

invasive plants. That’s why The Nature Conservancy depends on it more

than any of the other 18 herbicides it uses for restoring fish and wildlife

habitat.

As the court noted, EPA has found that glyphosate has NO link to any

kind of cancer.

In fact, every scientific authority on earth that has done ORIGINAL

research on glyphosate has corroborated EPA’s finding. (And, no, the

International Agency for Research on Cancer did not do original

research. It cherry-picked existing studies, then fudged the results,

placing glyphosate on its speculative list of “probable carcinogens”

right up there with tea, coffee, cocoa, hot toddies and red meat).

Safety of herbicides is determined by scientists, not vulturine lawyers or

chemophobic, lay-populated California juries.

If anyone wishes to learn the truth about glyphosate, I direct them to

my Slate piece at:

https://slate.com/technology/2019/10/glyphosate-does-not-causecancer-

saves-native-plants.html 

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