Saturday, 18 April 2015 16:33

Second opinion?

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The World Health Organisation recently declared that glyphosate was “probably carcinogenic”, causing a bit of a fuss given the ubiquity of Round Up and its clones.

But did this eager offshoot of the United Nations properly assess the threat of glyphosate before setting the cat among the pigeons? No new studies were done, rather 17 experts were asked to review publicly-available studies about glyphosate then issue their assessment of the risk.

The same process apparently led this august body to declare night shifts and hairdressing as “probably carcinogenic” and coffee as “possibly carcinogenic”.

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