Monsanto weedkiller glyphosate no-cancer-risk story pedaled by pharma pal, Reuters

THE STORY

Reuters – The World Health Organization’s cancer agency says a common weedkiller is “probably carcinogenic.” The scientist leading that review knew of fresh data showing no cancer link – but he never mentioned it and the agency did not take it into account.

By Kate Kelland

” . . . Previously unreported court documents reviewed by Reuters from an ongoing U.S. legal case against Monsanto show that Blair [epidemiologist from the U.S. National Cancer Institute] knew the unpublished research found no evidence of a link between glyphosate and cancer.”

Also by Kate Kelland

Emails from its own scientists show the International Agency for Research on Cancer failed to comprehensively review evidence on human exposure to the cancer-causing chemical benzene. The agency has not remedied matters, despite its findings being used in U.S. court cases and relied upon around the world.

Translation: It’s the benzene you were exposed to when you varnished your floor, not  the GMOs in your food making all these cancer cases.

Hmmmm . . .
That sure looks odd. Why is reputable Reuters dishing out these special reports absolving Monsanto of charges they are poisoning the public?
Let’s check for a big pharma connection to Reuters . . .
Oh.
Lookee her-r-re….

The CEO of Reuters, David Thomson , is “a non-executive director of Pfizer, Inc. He also serves on the board of the World Economic Forum’s Partnering Against Corruption Initiative and is a member of the Forum’s International Business Council, as well as on the International Advisory Boards of British American Business and the Atlantic Council”.

Hmmm-mm. . ..
Maybe here’s some big Wall Street deal involving poison-week-killer-in-your-food-Monsanto in the works right now. . . .
Oh.
Lookee her-r-re….
Exclusive: Bayer to win EU approval for $62.5 billion Monsanto deal
” . . . The takeover, one of a trio of major deals in the agribusiness sector in recent years, would create a company with a share of more than a quarter of the world’s seed and pesticides market.“

More on the deal – Bayer goes through ‘ups and downs’ as Monsanto deal drags on

Reuters hosts Pfizer’s earnings report teleconference –

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Big Pharma pal, Reuters patiently explains to the child-minded public “World Health Organization’s cancer agency confuses consumers”.

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