Publisher reviewing 2 more papers on glyphosate safety over ghostwriting claims

I think Monsanto is an evil company, like in a very real cartoonish-evil sense. I have no doubt they put their thumb on the scale of research leaning it towards safe.

That said I suspect glyphosate is probably not that bad, and among herbicides it may actually be the lesser of many evils. As in most things the truth is likely somewhere in the middle. Glyphosate may have carcinogenic properties but also may not be particularly dangerous in the quantities that a normal person may encounter either in food or spraying the weeds around their house a couple times in the summer.

Probably the most convincing thing I can casually dig up is that despite massive increases in use[1] the per-capita rate of Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma has been pretty steady since 1990[2]. Now suspiciously it did rise between 1975 (roundup introduced in '74) and 1990 but seems to have plateaued since then.

If it were substantially linked via casual exposure I would expect a stronger correlation with its use. I wouldn't go drinking the stuff but it's possible it's no better or worse than the myriad of other "safe but not really" chemicals we douse our lives with.

[1] Table 1: https://alanplewis.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/Benbrook-T...

[2] https://seer.cancer.gov/statfacts/html/nhl.html