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Greed, Lies and Glyphosate: The Portier Papers

User
6 years ago
last modified: 6 years ago

The Andrew Wakefield of agriculture?

A scientist who advised a United Nations agency to classify
glyphosate as carcinogenic received $160,000 (£121,500) from law firms
bringing claims by cancer victims against the manufacturer, Monsanto.

Christopher Portier advised the International Agency for Research on
Cancer (IARC), which concluded in March 2015 that glyphosate was a"probable human carcinogen".

He did not declare his links to the law firms in a letter to the
European Commission urging it to accept the IARC classification.

https://risk-monger.com/2017/10/13/greed-lies-and-glyphosate-the-portier-papers/

http://www.hortweek.com/glyphosate-scientist-payment-casts-even-further-doubt-carcinogen-findings/plant-health/article/1447670

ADDING: Portier admitted in the deposition that prior to the IARC glyphosate
meetings, where he served as the only external expert adviser, he had
never worked and had no experience with glyphosate.

Comments (5)

  • kimmq
    6 years ago

    lazy, you remind me of the apologists the tobacco industry used back when it became apparent that using tobacco products caused cancer.

  • Mike McGarvey
    6 years ago

    Kimmq, Poetier had no facts. You need proven scientific facts reviewed by peers to come up with the truth. "Probable human carcinogen" with no facts is worthless. The tobacco industry was fighting facts and lost. No connection to this article at all.


  • User
    6 years ago
    last modified: 6 years ago

    I know this is an old topic but there's some mudslinging here, or rather lack of mud since your million dollar remote control Deere tractor just disconnected itself for an update and the service guy has to wait for your bank loan to go through before he can pull out the snow plow.

    We're talking about human lives and health here. Cancer, GI and immune issues, asthma, obesity, and so on. Pointing fingers is kind of neither here nor there. Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence, well, that can be said on either side. Like, literally forcing everyone to eat nothing but the same organic MREs would not be freedom, but I don't really think that forcing people to grow all GMO feed is freedom either.

  • kimmq
    6 years ago

    Think back a few years when Dow Chemical. DuPont, Occidental, and others all told us that dumping their waste products in the soil would do no harm and then DuPont's Love Cannel exploded with barrels of waste emerging from the ground and peop0le living there having all kinds of exotic diseases. Think back to why we kow have the Environmental Protection Agency and why in many places they have clean up processes going that will be there for another 50 to 75 years in an attempt to clean the water.

    We have been lied to by people that should know better for fewer reasons than applying a n herbicide.

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