NOT SCIENCE BUT MONSANTO FRAUD
Study that said glyphosate herbicide is safe retracted 25 years after publication
Regulators allowed worldwide glyphosate use based on a now-RETRACTED fraudulent paper secretly written by Monsanto staff.
BILLIONS were exposed — and countless injured — based on fraudulent science.
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Regulatory Toxicology and Pharmacology
Volume 31, Issue 2, April 2000, Pages 117-165
RETRACTED: Safety Evaluation and Risk
Assessment of the Herbicide Roundup and
Its Active Ingredient, Glyphosate, for
Humans Regulatory
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0273230099913715
Influential 2000 Glyphosate Safety Study Retracted Over Ethical Lapses
The study, published in a toxicology journal, relied heavily on unpublished Monsanto data and ghostwriting by company staff, without proper credit. Emails from lawsuits exposed these issues, leading to the late November 2025 retraction after researchers requested it. Cited over 600 times in regulations, its removal highlights transparency gaps in industry science, though regulators like the EPA still deem glyphosate safe based on broader evidence.
Science Journal Regrets Helping Giant Corporation Ruin Tens of Thousands of Lives Across Planet
Internal documents released through litigation revealed that Monsanto employees contributed substantially to the writing of the paper, despite the study being attributed to independent scientists.
This revelation raises legitimate concerns about the integrity of industry-sponsored research and the extent to which regulatory agencies rely on studies that are not independent. If a foundational safety assessment for a widely used chemical can be compromised, it highlights the corporate capture that exists within our government.
NOT SCIENCE BUT FRAUD
Monsanto (now Bayer)
THIS WAS ALWAYS THE REASON WHY Clarence Thomas who used to work at Monsato was put on the supreme court to protect Monsanto.
A landmark study on the safety of glyphosate, the active ingredient in the controversial herbicide Roundup, has been formally retracted by its publisher, raising new concerns about the chemical’s potential dangers.
The Trump administration, meanwhile, aims to shield its manufacturer from lawsuits.
Science journal retracts study on safety of Monsanto’s Roundup: ‘Serious ethical concerns’ | Carey Gillam, The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/dec/05/monsanto-roundup-safety-study-retracted
The journal Regulatory Toxicology and Pharmacology has formally retracted a sweeping scientific paper published in 2000 that became a key defense for Monsanto’s claim that Roundup herbicide and its active ingredient glyphosate don’t cause cancer.
Martin van den Berg, the journal’s editor in chief, said in a note accompanying the retraction that he had taken the step because of “serious ethical concerns regarding the independence and accountability of the authors of this article and the academic integrity of the carcinogenicity studies presented”.
The listed authors of the paper, Gary Williams, Robert Kroes and Ian Munro, were scientists who did not work for Monsanto, and the study was held up by the company as a defense against conflicting scientific evidence linking Roundup to cancer. The fact that it was authored by scientists from outside the company, from seemingly independent researchers, gave it added validity.
But over the last decade, internal company documents, that came to light in litigation brought by plaintiffs in the US suffering from cancer, revealed Monsanto’s influence on the paper. The documents included an email from a company official discussing the research paper and praising the “hard work” of several Monsanto scientists as part of a strategy Monsanto called “Freedom to Operate” (FTO).
The corporate files showed how company officials celebrated when the paper was published.
In one email following the April 2000 publication of the Williams paper, Lisa Drake, then Monsanto government affairs official, described the toll the work of developing “independent” research papers took on multiple Monsanto employees.
“The publication by independent experts of the most exhaustive and detailed scientific assessment ever written on glyphosate … was due to the perseverance, hard work and dedication of the following group of folks,” Drake wrote. She then listed seven Monsanto employees. The group was applauded for “their hard work over three years of data collection, writing, review and relationship building with the papers’ authors”.
In 2017, a lawsuit uncovered emails from Monsanto that suggested its employees helped ghostwrite an influential paper that claimed to find no evidence the company’s widely used herbicide, Roundup, caused cancer. Now, the paper has been retracted.
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