Calling Monsanto’s efforts to hide the alleged carcinogenicity of its Roundup weed killer “reprehensible,” attorneys for a school groundskeeper dying of cancer urged a San Francisco judge late Monday to keep intact a $289 million jury verdict for their client. Curtis Hoke, an attorney with The Miller Firm who represents Dewayne Johnson, argued in court […]
A New Study Shows Glyphosate May Be Killing Honeybees…
Glyphosate, the world’s most widely used weed killer, has caused concerns over its potential risk to human health and the environment for decades. Now, new research shows that glyphosate may be indirectly killing bees. Brand-new research from the University of Texas at Austin shows that glyphosate is hazardous for bees. For this study, scientists exposed […]
Bayer Beware: Lawyers Claim to Have “Explosive” Monsanto Documents…
Lawyers involved in a California lawsuit against Monsanto claim to have “explosive” documents concerning the Bayer-owned agrochemical giant’s activities in Europe, according to Euronews – “What we have is the tip of the iceberg. And in fact we have documents now in our possession, several hundreds documents, that have not been declassified and some of […]
Roundup the Academics? Monsanto Verdict Raises New Troubling Questions About Professors Working Under Corporate Sponsorship…
For a growing number of critics, the breakthrough verdict against Monsanto for $289 million over its Roundup weedkiller is an indictment of the company’s corporate culture but also of academics who were used by the company to discredit scientific studies linking the herbicide to cancer. Former groundskeeper, Dewayne Johnson, 46, reportedly has only months to […]
Monsanto Emails Raise Issue of Influencing Research on Roundup Weed Killer…
Jury Finds Monsanto Must Pay $289 Million in Roundup Cancer Trial…
A San Francisco jury on Friday found that Monsanto must pay $250 million in punitive damages to a school groundskeeper because its Roundup weed killer caused his fatal lymphoma, the first such verdict against the agrochemical giant. The 12-member unanimous jury awarded plaintiff Dewayne Johnson $39.2 million compensatory damages, finding Monsanto chose not to warn […]
Closing Arguments Made in $412M Roundup Cancer Trial…
Attorneys for a Bay Area man dying of lymphoma asked a San Francisco jury Tuesday to award their client $412 million in damages against Monsanto for failing to warn that its popular Roundup weed killer can cause cancer, in the first-ever trial over the herbicide’s alleged carcinogenicity. Describing plaintiff DeWayne Johnson’s four-year battle with cancer, […]
Monsanto Rests Its Case in Roundup Cancer Trial…
A Chicago oncologist suggested Friday that a groundskeeper’s aggressive lymphoma was inherited and not caused by Monsanto’s Roundup weed killer, in a California jury trial over the herbicide’s alleged carcinogenicity. Although Rush University’s Timothy Kuzel didn’t directly call the man’s non-Hodgkin lymphoma an inherited disease, he testified about various emerging treatments grounded in the theory […]
Monsanto Scientist Grilled in Roundup Cancer Trial…
On the 14th day of a California jury trial over whether Monsanto’s Roundup weed killer triggered a Bay Area man’s terminal lymphoma, a Harvard cancer epidemiologist denied telling the jury that research showing a link between the herbicide and cancer is flawed because Monsanto paid her $100,000. Running through a number of epidemiological studies finding […]
Yelling Breaks Out During Roundup Cancer Link Trial…
In a bid to discredit a Columbia University cancer expert who says Monsanto’s Roundup weed killer is carcinogenic, lawyers for the agrichemical giant accused him on Wednesday of lying under oath about the purported link between Roundup and cancer, in a contentious California jury trial over whether the weed killer caused a Bay Area man’s […]