The vagaries of American tort law were on display in San Francisco….as six jurors decided that Bayer AG is liable for $80.3 million in damages for allegedly causing a Sonoma man’s non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma. The scientific consensus is that Bayer’s Roundup herbicide is safe, but the company is now open for looting as it faces lawsuits from some 11,200 similar plaintiffs.
Edwin….Hardeman’s….lawyers emphasized 2015 findings from the World Health Organization’s International Agency for Research on Cancer, which concluded that glyphosate is “probably carcinogenic” to humans.
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Yet in the Hardeman case, federal Judge Vince Chhabria strictly limited discussion of the EPA’s analysis of glyphosate “to avoid wasting time or misleading the jury, because the primary inquiry is what the scientific studies show, not what the EPA concluded they show.” He also barred Bayer from discussing almost all conclusions foreign regulators had reached.
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The scientists conducted a “comprehensive systematic review of studies submitted to the agency and available in the open literature,” the EPA’s director of the Office of Pesticide Programs, Richard Keigwin, wrote last year. They concluded “glyphosate is not likely to be carcinogenic in humans.”
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