Much as pesticide companies do in order to get favorable data. Not to mention, they mostly do the testing themselves.The chairman of the House Science, Space and Technology Committee on Tuesday slammed an international body’s cancer research on a common pesticide and questioned whether the United States should contribute funding to the body.
Rep. Lamar Smith (R-Texas) called the International Agency for Research on Cancer’s (IARC) conclusions on the pesticide glyphosate “unsubstantiated” and “not backed by reliable data.”
He also accused the agency of using “cherry-picked” information.
“IARC’s conclusion about glyphosate relied only on data that was favorable to its conclusion and ignored contradictory data,” Smith said at a hearing about the IARC process.
The Hill
Who is this Lamar Smith quack anyway? A fundamentalist, corporate stockholder?
[Smith, a] Texas representative, who has also aggressively attacked climate science and climate scientists, has promoted legislation that would essentially replace independent scientists with industry representatives on Environmental Protection Agency advisory boards; the EPA has since implemented that policy.
The Intercept
And remember this one?
We're doomed.
To be honest, I think cancer research in this country and probably at least in Canada is tainted toward chemical companies anyway, so I wouldn't be the least bit surprised if the IARC does have faulty research.
...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.
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