DUE DILIGENCE:
My wife and I happen
to use one to three gallons
of RoundUp every year
at home, for our
one acre yard.
We would stop using
RoundUp if we thought
the vegetation killer
was not safe.
We have never invested
in Bayer, or any other
chemical company.
SUMMARY:
Glyphosate is the
most popular herbicide
in the world -- important
for modern agriculture.
Before the
"IARC study",
there had
already been
3,300 studies,
over four decades,
proving glyphosate
was safe.
Only IARC
said glyphosate
causes cancer.
IARC employed Italy’s
Ramazzini Institute,
to work on their study
-- Ramazzini
had falsely claimed
in the past,
that cell phones and
artificial sweeteners,
cause cancer.
Evidence
is accumulating
that Ramazzini
worked with
anti-chemical
pressure groups,
and trial lawyers.
HISTORY:
On September 12, 2016,
the Obama EPA ssued
the first version of their
'glyphosate is safe' report.
On December 18, 2017,
the United States
Environmental Protection
Agency (EPA) issued
a revised paper titled
“Revised Glyphosate
Issue Paper:
Evaluation of
Carcinogenic
Potential”
as part of its latest findings
on glyphosate, the main
active ingredient in the world’s
most used, and safe, weed killer,
Monsanto’s Roundup.
The reaction of
the American press
to the 2017 EPA report
was almost complete silence,
as you would expect while
Donald Trump was president !
THE EPA's NEW
GLYPHOSATE
ASSESSMENT
The EPA’s new assessment
looked at 167 epidemiological,
animal carcinogenicity, and
geno-toxicity studies.
The agency excluded
39 of those studies
over concerns about quality.
The IARC relied on
fewer than half
as many such studies.
The international agency IARC
also failed to exclude research
focused on non-mammalian species,
such as worms and reptiles.
The EPA’s glyphosate judgment
is an interim finding, that follows
similar judgments by regulators
from the European Union, Australia,
Japan, Canada and other developed
countries.
A 2017 longitudinal study published
in the Journal of the National Cancer
Institute tracked cancer incidence
among nearly 45,000 licensed pesticide
applicators who used Roundup.
The study found glyphosate was NOT
statistically significantly associated
with cancer at any site.
The EPA also looked for possible hazards
to those who ate crops exposed to glyphosate,
based on conservative assumptions about
the levels of glyphosate residue on the crops
and drinking water and concluded there is
no risk to human health.
COUPLE WINS $2 BILLION
IN ROUNDUP LAWSUIT
Recently, a California jury
awarded $2.055 billion
to a couple claiming
Monsanto's (Bayer AG)
Roundup weed killer
caused their cancer.
The smarmy California judge
refused to allow the jury
to see contradictory evidence.
The Alameda County Superior
Court judge denied a request by
Bayer to inform the jury that the
US Environmental Protection Agency
concluded last month that Roundup’s
active ingredient, glyphosate,
is non-carcinogenic
( no risk to public health,
when used as directed ).
If glyphosate is safe,
then it isn’t
responsible for
the non-Hodgkin
lymphoma of Alva
and Alberta Pilliod.
That huge verdict follows
two other cases
awarding $158 million
against Roundup.
Monsanto / Bayer
now faces lawsuits
from 13,400 plaintiffs
with similar claims.
INTERNATIONAL
AGENCY
FOR RESEARCH
ON CANCER
( IARC )
The plaintiff lawyers
relied heavily on the
World Health Organization’s
International Agency
for Research on Cancer
which claimed glyphosate
is ‘probably carcinogenic.’
In 2017, Reuters
reported the IARC
had ignored and omitted
evidence that glyphosate
was non-carcinogenic.
IARC is a leftist science fraud
organization that finds
almost every chemical tested
to be 'probably carcinogenic'.
The IARC does not
look at actual risks
to consumers, but at
theoretical considerations.
( Reminds me of
climate science fraud,
using computer models,
that consistently make
wrong climate predictions ! )
IARC does not consider how
the assessed substances
are handled, or look at
actual exposure to them
in everyday life.
This explains why the IARC
has classified sausages and
sawdust as “carcinogens”
( category 1A ).
The IARC has issued
cancer risk warnings
for more than
1,000 products
and activities, including
hot beverages, aloe, red meat
and working the night shift.
French International Agency
for Research on Cancer (IARC)
received over $48 million
from America’s National
Institutes of Health (NIH),
as of a few years ago.
They have "tested"
over 900 chemicals,
and 899 were claimed
to be carcinogenic!
Complete nonsense !
The IARC has now
"tested" glyphosate,
the active ingredient
in RoundUp herbicide.
IARC colluded with
anti-chemical activists
and class action lawyers.
IARC manipulated
scientific reports.
IARC deliberately withheld
other studies concluding
glyphosate was safe.
IARC panelists inserted
new statistical analyses,
that reversed the study’s
original finding, which said
glyphosate was safe.
NIH Cancer Research
Institute scientist
Aaron Blair conducted
a years-long study,
that found glyphosate
was safe, but kept
his study secret,
until after the
IARC published
their glyphosate "study",
so IARC would not
have to mention
his “unpublished” study
in their report.
DR. CHRISTOPHER PORTIER
The 2014 advisory group
that decided IARC
would review glyphosate
was led by activist statistician
Dr. Christopher Portier.
Shortly after serving
on the advisory group,
Portier signed up
with trial lawyers,
to work on their
glyphosate law suits.
Christopher Portier
began accepting pay
from Lundy, Lundy,
Soileau & South,
a firm known for
its cancer class-action
lawsuits.
Mr. Portier now appears
as a witness for plaintiffs
in the Roundup litigation.
He is making a lot of money !
IARC rulings are used
by predatory lawyers,
to sue glyphosate
manufacturers.
IARC reviewers
told US congressmen,
asking questions
about their science,
to come to France,
if they wanted answers!
Congress authorizes
taxpayer funding,
for IARC, but apparently
congressmen have no right
to question their work ?
Big companies
don’t deserve
to be looted,
especially based
on science fraud.