A corrupt groups that fronts for the chemical industry while having the word "Science" in its name was paid off by the chemical industry to battle negative press and science about the industry, including Monsanto's Roundup. They called on Monsanto to support them, and Monsanto obliged.
Emails between the American Council on Science and Health, or ACSH, and Monsanto, show the corrupted relationship between them.
“If a company like [Monsanto] won’t support us, then who will?” the head of the American Council on Science and Health wrote to a Monsanto scientist in 2015. A day later came the reply: “[T]he answer is yes…. [D]efinitely count us in!!”
Instead of being a “consumer advocacy organization” that does “not represent any industry", as their site claims, they are bought and paid for. After asking for "support", i.e. money, Monsanto and other companies paid to keep the positive proapganada flowing as well as fighting the negative scientific evidence.
For decades, Monsanto has been pushing false claims of safety with the help of corrupted organizations who just want money to make people believe in the safety of harmful products. With ACSH, they have attacked scientists and organizations who raised concerns about the health risks of glyphosate. The Environmental Working Group was called "an alarmist group" in order to diminish the validity of the message. Other statements against harms have been called "scare tactics".
In 2015, the WHO's International Agency for Research on Cancer, or IARC, was to release a report that classified glyphosate as “probably carcinogenic to humans.” The head of the ACSH contacted Monsanto to ask for support. Then Monsanto's head of medical sciences and outreach, Dr. Daniel Goldstein, wrote to colleagues asking them to support ACSH.
ACSH had already been spreading the gospel of glyphosate safety. But had to been paid. ACSH's head Gilbert Ross wrote to Dr. Daniel Goldstein to complain about no getting their "support" yet.
The actual amount paid to ACSH for their propaganda and fire control is unclear, but in 2013, they received over $390,000 from corporations. That's far from being an and organization that does "not represent any industry" as they claim. They get money and make some bullshit PR for the public to gobble up and for politicians and government agencies to stand by in claiming something is safe.
The tables are turning on Roundup/glyphosate and Monsanto which is now owned by Bayer. Last year, a jury found them guilty of causing non-Hodgkin lymphoma in someone who used glyphosate for decades, and ordered them to pay $289. The judge lowered it to $78 Million.
More recently, another case was ruled in favour of the plaintiff as well, where a couple developed non-Hodgkin lymphoma. The jury ordered Monsanto-bayer to pay $2 billion in damages. That will probably eventually get lowered by the judge.
It wouldn't surprise me if the future thousands of cases would be invalidated in order to protect a company that is "too big to fail" and would cause large economic ripples of damage if it crashed from bankruptcy due to lawsuits.
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