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In reply to the discussion: YEA! Ring of Fire plans to go after Monsanto's Roundup big time in the next few weeks! [View all]Major Nikon
(36,925 posts)or the WHO people publishing agriculture regulation standards, or the WHO people who monitor food safety, or the EPA, or the EFSA, or the American Council on Science and Health, or German Federal Institute for Risk Assessment, The Joint FAO/WHO Expert Committee on Food Additives, or pretty much every other first world food and water safety regulatory agency on the planet.
Meanwhile the IARC, unlike many of the other organizations mentioned does NOT perform risk assessments, only hazard assessments. What does this mean? It means the IARC doesn't consider whether a given substance has a 1 in gazzillion chance of causing cancer or a 1 in 10 chance of causing cancer, nor do they evaluate whether or not a given substance actually is increasing the number of cancer cases. In other words, all they are doing is establishing a baseline for all those other organizations for risk assessment, and the overwhelming consensus is there's exactly zero observed risk of cancer from glyphosate under anything remotely approaching real world conditions.
So certainly to climate science deniers and other assorted cranks, scientific consensus and practical reality doesn't matter, YMMV.