2000 Glyphosate Safety Study Retracted After 25 Years Due to Integrity Concerns
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Summary
A 2000 study concluding glyphosate was safe has been retracted 25 years after publication due to "critical issues that undermine the academic integrity" of the article. The retraction notice cites concerns about the study's conclusions, and there are allegations that the scientists may have signed a text actually prepared by Monsanto, the herbicide's manufacturer.
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· 4 pulledseveral critical issues that are considered to undermine the academic integrity of this article and its conclusions
A quarter-century after its publication, one of the most influential research articles on the potential carcinogenicity of glyphosate has been retracted
The scientists are suspected of having signed a text actually prepared by Monsanto
the study, published in April 2000 and concluding the herbicide was safe, has been removed from its archives
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