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Science thwarts efforts of lawyers to profit from glyphosate claims

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Hank Campbell writing for Science 2.0 denounces infestation of International Agency for Research on Cancer by “activist anti-science mullahs” using shoddy methods to allege glyphosate causes cancer, applauds judges using real facts to gut Roundup judgments on appeal.

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