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Monsanto Ordered to Pay $289 Million in Glyphosate Cancer Trial

posted by Fnord666 on Sunday August 12 2018, @09:13PM   Printer-friendly
from the time-to-cough-up dept.

Monsanto ordered to pay $289 million in California Roundup cancer trial

ilPapa writes:

A California jury on Friday found Monsanto liable in a lawsuit filed by a man who alleged the company's glyphosate-based weed-killers, including Roundup, caused him cancer and ordered the company to pay $289 million in damages.

The case of school groundskeeper Dewayne Johnson was the first lawsuit alleging glyphosate causes cancer to go to trial. Monsanto, a unit of Bayer AG following a $62.5 billion acquisition by the German conglomerate, faces more than 5,000 similar lawsuits across the United States.

The jury at San Francisco's Superior Court of California deliberated for three days before finding that Monsanto had failed to warn Johnson and other consumers of the cancer risks posed by its weed killers.

It awarded $39 million in compensatory and $250 million in punitive damages.

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/08/10/monsanto-ordered-to-pay-289m-in-california-roundup-cancer-trial.html

Monsanto Ordered to Pay $289 Million to Man Who Claimed Glyphosate Caused His Cancer

takyon writes:

Monsanto ordered to pay $289m damages in Roundup cancer trial

Chemical giant Monsanto has been ordered to pay $289m (£226m) damages to a man who claimed herbicides containing glyphosate had caused his cancer.

In a landmark case, a Californian jury found that Monsanto knew its Roundup and RangerPro weedkillers were dangerous and failed to warn consumers. It's the first lawsuit to go to trial alleging a glyphosate link to cancer.

Monsanto denies that glyphosate causes cancer and says it intends to appeal against the ruling. "The jury got it wrong," vice-president Scott Partridge said outside the courthouse in San Francisco.

The claimant in the case, groundskeeper Dewayne Johnson, is among more than 5,000 similar plaintiffs across the US.

Monsanto? Never heard of it. Did you mean Bayer AG?

Previously: Cancer Hazard vs. Risk - Glyphosate
Monsanto Faces First US Trial Over Roundup Cancer Link
Monsanto Cancer Trial Begins in San Francisco

Related: Glyphosate Linked to Liver Damage

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  • (Score: 0, Troll) by khallow on Tuesday August 14 2018, @10:54AM

    by khallow (3766) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday August 14 2018, @10:54AM (#721318) Journal

    Generally, it starts with who is presenting the science and how much profit said science is protecting for the presenter.

    Most major environmental regulators in the world are the presenters and they're getting no more profit from said science than the END OF CHOCOLATE people were.

    Unmasking the who is occasionally challenging, but lately the larger businesses don't even bother - it seems that the majority of "science believers" don't even care, as long as it's published in a form that looks something like what they accept as "good" - and if you want to talk about the majority of the population that threshold seems to be a Reuters or AP feed headline and one or more statistics quoted in the body of the article.

    Let us note that the article I linked to had the "END OF CHOCOLATE" theme coming from a Yahoo News op ed piece which to me is quite a bit less reliable than a Reuters/AP feed headline. You then ran with that. I wish your skepticism were more consistently applied.

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