Monsanto is promoting another study that argues the there is no connection between cancer and Glyphosate, despite what the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) found. You may have seen this article, it  reads as follows…

Scientists find no evidence glyphosate causes cancer

A panel of epidemiologists and toxicologists says the World Health Organization is wrong about glyphosate.

Sixteen experts from Canada, the United States, Germany, the United Kingdom and elsewhere reviewed scientific literature on glyphosate and cancer. In a report released this morning, the panel said there’s no evidence that glyphosate causes cancer.

“None of the results from a very large database, using different methodologies, provides evidence of, or a potential mechanism for, human carcinogenesis.”

Glyphosate is the most popular herbicide in the world.  It is the active ingredient in Roundup, a Monsanto product.

The panel’s conclusion that glyphosate is safe contradicts a World Health Organization report released earlier this year….
It continues on to say,
“The expert panel, which included University of Guelph toxicologist Keith Solomon, also said IARC relied too heavily on studies of questionable merit.”
and so on..

To start with, in July of this year Monsanto retained Intertek Scientific & Regulatory Consultancy to convene an expert panel to review the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) monograph on glyphosate. In other words they paid for this study. Ok fair enough, let’s take a look at the panel and see if there’s any connection to Monsanto from the panelists.

Gary Williams **	M.D.
Tom Sorahan **	Ph.D., D.Sc.
Marilyn Aardema	Ph.D.
John Acquavella ***	Ph.D., FACE
Sir Colin Berry *	M.D., Ph.D.
David Brusick *
Michele Burns	M.D., M.P.H., FAAP, FACMT, FACCT
Joao Lauro Viana de Camargo *	M.D., PH.D.
David Garabrant *	M.D., M.P.H., M.S., FACOEM, FACPM
Helmut Greim **	M.D.
Larry Kier ***	Ph.D.
David Kirkland **	Ph.D.
Gary Marsh	Ph.D., FACE
Keith Solomon **	Ph.D.
Douglas Weed	M.D., Ph.D., M.P.H., FACE
Ashley Roberts *	Ph.D.

 

Monsanto compensated Intertek to convene and facilitate the panel’s work.

* denoted that expert has previously served as a consultant to Monsanto Company

** denotes that expert has previously served as a consultant to Monsanto Company and, as part of that consulting relationship, published peer-reviewed data regarding glyphosate

*** denotes that expert previously was employed by Monsanto Company and, as part of that employment, published peer-reviewed data regarding glyphosate

Yeah, I thought so, 12 of 16 “experts” have direct connections to Monsanto, as is so often the case with the studies Monsanto uses to make it’s cases, they are not only funded by Monsanto but are conducted by “experts” who are essentially on their payroll.

Anthony Piscitelli for mauigmomoratoriumnews.org