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Science journal retracts study on safety of Monsanto’s Roundup: ‘serious ethical concerns’
(www.theguardian.com)
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25 years of letting Monsanto peddle something they had misrepresented by forging scientific proof. It's retracted now, but the damage is done. It's also going to be exceedingly hard to get anything to change with them being well entrenched and wealthy. They will do exactly what big tabaco did for years. They'll try to discredit, blow off, and litigate until their hands are tied. That won't start with this administration, that's for sure. Meanwhile we have less and less insect culture and no alarm bells ringing.
Yeah. Biden would never have let any of that fly. He hated big evil corporations.