Discovery documents arising from thousands of lawsuits claiming cancer development after exposure to Roundup herbicide uncover the corporate capture of science, which puts public health, and the very foundation of democracy, at risk.
Carey Gillam and Leemon McHenry found three major trends in the discovery documents:
1. “Ghostwriting”. When the scientific literature did not yield the results Monsanto desired, the company talked internally about writing its own journal articles and paying outside scientists to list their names on the documents when they were sent for publication.
2. Influencing journal editors. The company used all of its influence to pressure a journal editor to retract a paper, against the wishes of its authors, that drew results Monsanto found disagreeable.
3. Corrupting government agencies. The Environmental Protection Agency persuade the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry, a toxicological arm of the Department of Health and Human Services, from carrying out its own assessment of glyphosate, the active ingredient in Roundup.
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