Finally, the Supreme Court Does Something Right
In a 7-2 decision today, the court ruled that Bayer cannot be sued over state-level claims that the company failed to warn of cancer risks from its weedkiller Roundup and its original active ingredient glyphosate.
This ruling effectively blocks thousands of pending and future failure-to-warn lawsuits against Bayer across the country.
Glyphosate is absolutely essential for saving fish and wildlife from alien, invasive plants. That’s why The Nature Conservancy depends on it more than any of the other 18 herbicides it uses for restoring fish and wildlife habitat.
As the court noted, EPA has found that glyphosate has NO link to any kind of cancer.
In fact, every scientific authority on earth that has done ORIGINAL research on glyphosate has corroborated EPA’s finding. (And, no, the International Agency for Research on Cancer did not do original research. It cherry-picked existing studies, then fudged the results, placing glyphosate on its speculative list of “probable carcinogens” right up there with tea, coffee, cocoa, hot toddies and red meat).
Safety of herbicides is determined by scientists, not vulturine lawyers or chemophobic, lay-populated California juries.
If anyone wishes to learn the truth about glyphosate, I direct them to my Slate piece at:
https://slate.com/technology/2019/10/glyphosate-does-not-cause-cancer-saves-native-plants.html