Posted on 04/01/2019 11:13:49 AM PDT by JeepersFreepers
The vagaries of American tort law were on display in San Francisco last week as six jurors decided that Bayer AG is liable for $80.3 million in damages for allegedly causing a Sonoma mans non-Hodgkin lymphoma. The scientific consensus is that Bayers Roundup herbicide is safe, but the company is now open for looting as it faces lawsuits from some 11,200 similar plaintiffs.
Yet theres overwhelming evidence that glyphosate, the active ingredient in Roundup, is unlikely to have caused Mr. Hardemans illness. His lawyers emphasized 2015 findings from the World Health Organizations International Agency for Research on Cancer, which concluded that glyphosate is probably carcinogenic to humans. But this outfit has also claimed you can get cancer from working the night shift, drinking hot beverages, eating red meator nearly anything else you can eat, touch or do.
. . . the EPAs director of the Office of Pesticide Programs, Richard Keigwin, wrote last year. They concluded glyphosate is not likely to be carcinogenic in humans.
The public-health agency Health Canada says it left no stone unturned in evaluating glyphosate in 2017. It found no likely cancer risk and notes that no pesticide regulatory authority in the world currently considers glyphosate to be a cancer risk to humans at the levels at which humans are currently exposed.
Yet in the Hardeman case, [Obama] federal Judge Vince Chhabria strictly limited discussion of the EPAs analysis of glyphosate to avoid wasting time or misleading the jury, because the primary inquiry is what the scientific studies show, not what the EPA concluded they show.
Its tough to win on the merits when you cant present the full story.
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“The scientific consensus is that Bayers Roundup herbicide is safe, “
Hypocrites, all of you defenders.
Why don't you enlighten me Einstein?
Funny guy. Like anything I provide that you cant easily find on your own would make a difference.
Ill spend my time more wisely, thank you very much.
Yep, I figured you for a drive by nincompoop spouting holier than thou nonsense trademarked by an acerbic demeanor.
Let a contract on the judge. One $ million would probably be enough
then such nonsense will cease.
Are q-tips effective at cleaning that $hit out of your ears?
Who the f%*& was talking to you?
I expect such hysterical responses. Fyi, the ad hominem is rather liberal. Troll much?
Monsanto probably has other valuable ag developments in their research pipeline that Beyer wanted.
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