http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/monsanto-papers-reveal-company-covered-up-cancer-concerns-a-1174233.html
Monsanto's strategies for whitewashing glyphosate have been revealed
in internal e-mails, presentations and memos. Even worse, these
"Monsanto Papers" suggest that the company doesn't even seem to know
whether Roundup is harmless to people's health.
...
The
documents suggest the company concealed risks, making their publication a
disaster for the company. The matter is also likely to be a topic of
discussion at Bayer, the German chemical company in the process of
acquiring Monsanto.
"The Monsanto Papers tell an alarming story of ghostwriting,
scientific manipulation and the withholding of information," says
Michael Baum, a partner in the law firm of Baum, Hedlund, Aristei &
Goldman, which is bringing one of the US class actions. According to
Baum, Monsanto used the same strategies as the tobacco industry:
"creating doubt, attacking people, doing ghostwriting."
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