The left is every bit as hostile to science as is the right.
"In glyphosate review, WHO cancer agency edited out 'non-carcinogenic'
findings"
LONDON (Reuters) - The World Health Organization’s cancer agency
dismissed and edited findings from a draft of its review of the
weedkiller glyphosate that were at odds with its final conclusion that
the chemical probably causes cancer.
Documents seen by Reuters show how a draft of a key section of the
International Agency for Research on Cancer’s (IARC) assessment of
glyphosate - a report that has prompted international disputes and
multi-million-dollar lawsuits - underwent significant changes and
deletions before the report was finalised and made public.
IARC, based in Lyon, France, wields huge influence as a semi-autonomous
unit of the WHO, the United Nations health agency. It issued a report on
its assessment of glyphosate - a key ingredient in Monsanto Corp’s
top-selling weedkiller RoundUp - in March 2015. It ranked glyphosate a
Group 2a carcinogen, a substance that probably causes cancer in people.
That conclusion was based on its experts’ view that there was
“sufficient evidence” glyphosate causes cancer in animals and “limited
evidence” it can do so in humans. The Group 2a classification has
prompted mass litigation in the United States against Monsanto and could
lead to a ban on glyphosate sales across the European Union from the
start of next year.
The edits identified by Reuters occurred in the chapter of IARC’s review
focusing on animal studies. This chapter was important in IARC’s
assessment of glyphosate, since it was in animal studies that IARC
decided there was “sufficient” evidence of carcinogenicity.
One effect of the changes to the draft, reviewed by Reuters in a
comparison with the published report, was the removal of multiple
scientists’ conclusions that their studies had found no link between
glyphosate and cancer in laboratory animals.
In one instance, a fresh statistical analysis was inserted - effectively
reversing the original finding of a study being reviewed by IARC.
In another, a sentence in the draft referenced a pathology report
ordered by experts at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. It noted
the report “firmly” and “unanimously” agreed that the “compound” –
glyphosate – had not caused abnormal growths in the mice being studied.
In the final published IARC monograph, this sentence had been deleted.
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The left is no more pro-science than the right.