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by adrr 1441 days ago
There’s more than glyphosate in roundup. Also if glyphosate increased the risk of cancer, we would see cancer increase when it started to get widely used. Cancer rates except for skin cancer keep falling.
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As far as I can tell the lawsuits they've lost have concerned non-Hodgkin's lymphoma where the picture looks a bit more mixed. https://seer.cancer.gov/statfacts/html/nhl.html
It’s possible that rates would have fallen further if glyphosate wasn’t present.
Sure. Anything's possible. This is a fully generalizable argument. Maybe you, personally, cause 10% of the world's cancer, but other factors have caused an overall falling cancer rate, but when you, personally, die or turn off your magical cancer-causing powers, rates will fall even further.