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by keane 55 days ago
A key paper on its safety from 2000 was retracted: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46161125

Like the tobacco industry before them, a Monsanto employee proposed producing a scientific paper with outside scientists: “by us doing the writing and they would just edit & sign their names so to speak” — see https://retractionwatch.com/2025/12/04/glyphosate-safety-art...

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There isn't one single study that glyphosate safety is based on. It's an intensively studied substance.
I didn’t claim there was only one study. The concern is the corporate culture introducing biases into studies. In the tobacco industry, this was a pattern.
There was overwhelming evidence, some of it preceding modern human health science, that smoking was damaging.
Indeed. It's rare in environmental medicine to see an effect as strong as that from smoking. The straw the tobacco industry clung to for a while (it was debunked) was that people who had cancer smoked to sooth their lungs (or, that cancer caused smoking, not vice versa.)