Bayer’s Monsanto was ordered to pay more than $1.5 billion Friday over claims its patented weed-killer, Roundup, was linked to users’ cancer, Bloomberg reported.
James Draeger, Valerie Gunther and Dan Anderson were each awarded a total of $61.1 million in actual damages and $500 million each in punitive damages by jurors in state court in Jefferson City, Missouri.
The three people alleged that their non-Hodgkin’s lymphomas — a type of cancer that begins in your lymphatic system, part of the body’s immune system — were caused by years of using Roundup while gardening.
I’ll never forget the weird fucking sub of literal Monsanto apologists on reddit who’d keyword search for anything negative and descend with gish-gallop and brigading.
Bunch of weirdos, some of whom openly admitted to working for and depending on Bayer/Monsanto for a living.
I’ll defend glyphosate if you like, it’s pretty damn safe and useful. Might not be good idea to be chronically exposed to it, although as I understand it the evidence is still unclear.
I think it has an important role in setting up conservation agriculture systems, during the initial land preparation to remove perennial weeds. We don’t do enough of this and topsoil losses from annual tillage are a huge, civilisation ending problem.
But it’s like that clip of somebody calling it safe then refusing to drink a glass of it. He should have offered them a nice glass of cow shit slurry in return. It doesn’t track, I wouldn’t drink a glass of lube but I’m pretty sure it’s safe.
Lol this is hilarious. You’re the only one here that put forth an argument. And in a thread where someone was whining about being “piled on” for their position against glyphosate, you’re being piled on.
It was like they were literally warning people what would happen if you don’t join the circle jerk.
You call that an argument? It was all either unsourced or unfalsifiable opinion. Additionally their final paragraph worked against their own point. It’s either safe or it isn’t. “Pretty sure” doesn’t cut it.
I really don’t even think it merits a response. Basically, I rest my case.
They’ll be here if we start popping up in Google searches. I always assumed they were paid professionals, working entry-level jobs for reputation management consultants.
More than likely it’s a bot farm hired by a public relations firm. Bot farms create bots every day and then assign them tasks to repost popular content and then reply using popular comments under different bots all so they can build up credibility and look like a real user. So then when they are put to a task you can have a single user welding the influence of hundreds or thousands to control the narrative.
Reddit is famously saturated in those bots and this place is likely no different but on a smaller scale made even easier by the instance system.
It was proven in court docs if I recall that they did have a troll farm not unlike the Russian IRA with the sole purpose of defending Monsanto’s products with vigor. The only type of person who would engage in that degree of fundamentalist day in and day out is either an AI bot or on a payroll to do exactly that.