EPA removes report that glyphosate does not cause cancer from its website. " Carcinogenic or Not?"

[Igel]

3. The IARC chair that helped push the declaration

had a severe conflict of interest.

You know, those conflict of interest things that in the case of industry automatically disqualify any information in a nuclear burst of ad hominem thinking, but in the case of anti-industry advocates qualify as a nimbus to bless their every sound.

And later the IAC chair came back to testify against glyphosate because, well, he'd done research with a specific point of view for anti-industry groups. Follow the money? Nah.

The European report came to the same conclusion as the EPA report, that glyphosate was very unlikely to be carcinogenic, and asked the IARC to discuss the matter. IARC declined. But now that the science has spoken, the source of all true knowledge, ideology and politics (of the right sort) must weigh in.

I can only imagine the EPA and FDA's report on electromagnetism, dated 1835. "This technology, untried, may prove a hazard to human life. Since it affects iron, found in human blood, the conclusion is inescapable that it will adversely affect humans. Moreover, it will have profound implications for the economy of the US and create severe disruptions. Therefore, to protect human and economic health of the nation, we are proposing strict regulation on the use of magnets and requiring licensing for wire suitable for producing so-called 'generators' and anti-labor 'motors'. Production facilities for both will be closely monitored by a series of agencies, once the appropriate regulations are drawn up. The first draft to result from this lengthy process is expected to be ready for review no later than 1845, at which time the initial review process will begin and longitudinal trials may begin." There'd be labor groups in the US protesting Joseph Henry and calling for the out-right banning of dangerous experiments using that dangerous force that spans open air and could only serve to make the elites' lives cushier while putting commoners out of work, and fundamentalists claiming that demons must be responsible for the force that magnets produce and the resulting electricity. Lenz, of course, would be ousted from his position in Germany, and Faraday's establishment would be burned down.