Legal and scientific ethics seem to have become irrelevant, as anti-chemical agitators, regulators and trial lawyers team up on numerous lawsuits against Monsanto. They're seeking tens of billions of dollars in jackpot justice, by claiming a chemical in the company's popular weed killer RoundUp causes cancer.
A key basis for the legal actions is a March 2015 International Agency for Research on Cancer ruling that glyphosate is a "probable human carcinogen." A previously little known agency in the World Health Organization (WHO), IARC has gained infamy in recent years--as critics slammed it for manipulating data and altering or deleting scientific conclusions to advance extreme anti-chemical policy agendas.