Paper published in 2000 found glyphosate was not harmful, while internal emails later revealed company’s influence
25 years of letting Monsanto peddle something they had misrepresented by forging scientific proof. It’s retracted now, but the damage is done. It’s also going to be exceedingly hard to get anything to change with them being well entrenched and wealthy. They will do exactly what big tabaco did for years. They’ll try to discredit, blow off, and litigate until their hands are tied. That won’t start with this administration, that’s for sure. Meanwhile we have less and less insect culture and no alarm bells ringing.
Yeah. Biden would never have let any of that fly. He hated big evil corporations.
The journal Regulatory Toxicology and Pharmacology has formally retracted a sweeping scientific paper published in 2000 that became a key defense for Monsanto’s claim that Roundup herbicide and its active ingredient glyphosate don’t cause cancer.
Whew. In 2025 that headline could have gone either direction.
Also, wow:
But over the last decade, internal company documents, that came to light in litigation brought by plaintiffs in the US suffering from cancer, revealed Monsanto’s influence on the paper. The documents included an email from a company official discussing the research paper and praising the “hard work” of several Monsanto scientists as part of a strategy Monsanto called “Freedom to Operate” (FTO).
It turns out the real conspiracies are literally always right wing.