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Research that claimed Roundup herbicide is safe, retracted by US journal
In 2017, a lawsuit uncovered internal emails from chemical giant Monsanto that suggested its employees helped ghostwrite an influential paper that claimed to find no evidence the company’s widely used glyphosate herbicide, Roundup, caused cancer. Now, the scientific journal that published the 2000 paper has announced it has been retracted, at the request of Harvard scientist Naomi Oreskes.Guest: Naomi Oreskes, Henry Charles Lea Professor of the History of Science at Harvard University. Producer: Ali BentonThe authority which regulates pesticides in Australia - the Australian Pesticides and…
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