Scientific findings are often inconvenient, such as when glyphosate, the world’s most widely used herbicide turns out to be carcinogenic. The US Environmental Protection Agency is caught between a weed and a hard place as they defend the big-money herbicide even after their own science advisors deemed it a public health threat. Commonly known in the by its brand name Roundup, Bayer, which recently merged with ag giant Monsanto, sells about 300 million pounds of the weed killer annually in the...
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