THE GLYPHOSATE TIMELINE
1950: First synthesised. Its early career was as a chelator, a descaling agent that gripped metals tightly enough to strip scale out of pipes and boilers.
1970: A Monsanto chemist notices it kills plants. It goes on sale from 1974 as Roundup.
Late 1970s: IBT and Craven, the labs running Monsanto's safety testing, are caught falsifying data. Three IBT executives are convicted. Nobody re-checks every approval that leaned on their results.
1985: The EPA classifies glyphosate a Class C "possible human carcinogen," on the back of kidney tumours in mice.
1991: The EPA quietly downgrades it to "evidence of non-carcinogenicity," just as Monsanto readies its Roundup Ready crops.
1996: Those crops launch. Glyphosate use climbs more than fifteenfold.
2015: The WHO's cancer agency rules it "probably carcinogenic to humans."
2017: The Monsanto Papers surface in court, internal emails showing the firm ghostwriting its own "independent" safety reviews. California lists it as a carcinogen the same year.
2018: Bayer buys Monsanto for $63bn and inherits the lawsuits. The first Roundup cancer trial returns a guilty verdict within weeks.
2019: A single jury awards two cancer patients $2 billion.
2022: A CDC study finds glyphosate in roughly 80% of American urine samples.
Today: Still the most sprayed weedkiller in history, across hundreds of millions of acres, turning up in rain, rivers and people.
And we are, apparently, still "gathering evidence."
I want you to stare at this chart until it sinks in.
60 cholesterol-lowering drug trials. 323,950 people. Statins. PCSK9 inhibitors. Ezetimibe. Every drug class. Every dose.
The x-axis is how much they lowered LDL. Up to 80 percent.
The y-axis is how many lives were saved.
Look at where the dots sit. Flat on the zero line. Some below it. Below zero means more people died.
Mortality is the only endpoint that matters. Did the person live or die.
60 trials. 323,950 people. It made no difference.
(Forrrest et al. 60 cholesterol-lowering trials. 323,950 patients. All drug classes.)
Yesterday’s Supreme Court decision reflects that the capture of government by big industry is nearly complete. It affirmed the right of chemical companies to injure, maim, and even kill you and your children with their pesticides, herbicides, etc., with near complete impunity.
This means you can expect increasingly toxic pesticides, herbicides, fungicides, rodenticides, etc., because the more toxic they are, the better they will kill weeds, pests, etc. And farmers that then use the most effective products, no matter how harmful to humans, will have a competitive advantage. The result will be that the farmer who adopts the most effective products (meaning most toxic) will have the largest crop yield. Other farmers, to compete, will then also be forced to adopt the more harmful product. With that, the race to the bottom has begun.
I expect that in the coming decades we will look back and wish to return to the “safer days” of glyphosate. So, bottom line: your government has abandoned you and your children. Think about this decision: 7 out of 9 Supreme Court judges sided with the chemical company against the public, and Trump’s DOJ intervened in the case on the side of the chemical company. Anyone who thinks this administration cares about you over industry profit is, at this point, delusional.
Shame on the DOJ, shame on the Trump admin, and shame on the Supreme Court for letting chemical companies get away with injuring, maiming, and killing Americans with their products instead of just allowing normal market forces to protect us and our children. Now, in addition to vaccines, we can add pesticides, etc., to the list of products that can injure and kill with near complete immunity.
Below is the decision and, in a nutshell, it holds that failure to warn claims brought under state law (which is the primary type of claim one would bring for harms from a pesticide, herbicide, etc.) are preempted by the EPA-approved label such that, if the harm is not on the label, your claim loses (since EPA didn’t add it to the label as a harm), and if the harm is on the label, your claim loses (since it has been disclosed on the label). Meaning heads or tail they win, and you and your children lose.
https://t.co/KGl3RCQqTt
My statin thread reached over 460,000 people. Thousands of you asked the same question.
"If cholesterol does not cause heart disease, then what does?"
The answer has been published for years. In the largest risk factor study ever conducted. 27,939 women. 21 years. Published in JAMA Cardiology.
Here is what they found. And here is why nobody told you.
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Anders Sørensen, a Danish clinical psychologist and researcher known for his work on psychiatric drug withdrawal and hyperbolic tapering, spoke Monday at the MAHA Institute summit about psychiatric drug dependency and withdrawal.
Listen closely to what he says.
Anders Sørensen, a Danish clinical psychologist and researcher known for his work on psychiatric drug withdrawal and hyperbolic tapering, spoke Monday at the MAHA Institute summit about psychiatric drug dependency and withdrawal.
Listen closely to what he says.
The year is 1950. Your doctor lights a cigarette and tells you smoking is fine. He read it in a study. He is telling the truth about having read it. He does not know, or is not saying, that the study was funded by the tobacco industry.
The year is 1958. Your doctor tells you to eat less fat. The evidence is contested. The contestation is not in the public messaging. The food industry has been helpful in clarifying which findings deserve attention. Some researchers who published contradictory data have been quietly defunded. Ancel Keys is on the cover of Time magazine.
The year is 1962. Your doctor prescribes thalidomide to your pregnant wife for morning sickness. It has been approved. The FDA gave it the green light in Europe. Twelve thousand children will be born with severe limb malformations before anyone in an official capacity acknowledges the problem. The families are told the drug was safe. The drug was approved. Both of these things remain true.
The year is 1972. Your doctor prescribes Valium. Britain is in the grip of a benzodiazepine wave that will last two decades. The dependency risk is known internally. It is not shared. Your doctor is not lying to you. He was not told either.
The year is 1999. Your doctor prescribes Vioxx for your arthritis. It is newer than ibuprofen, well-tolerated, and Merck has a study showing it works. Merck also has internal data suggesting it roughly doubles the risk of heart attack. This data will not reach your doctor for four more years. Fifty thousand people are estimated to have died in the interim. Merck eventually settles for 4.85 billion dollars. No criminal charges are brought.
The year is 2002. Your doctor prescribes OxyContin. Purdue Pharma trained its sales representatives to tell doctors the addiction risk was less than one percent. That figure came from a letter, not a study. The letter was about patients with terminal cancer on short-term doses in hospital settings. Your doctor is a GP with a patient who has a bad back. Nobody draws a distinction. Nobody is required to.
The year is 2008. Your doctor checks your cholesterol. Your LDL is elevated. You are prescribed a statin. Nobody mentions that the number needed to treat for primary prevention is approximately 250. Nobody mentions that the muscle deterioration you'll notice over the next two years is listed as a rare side effect rather than a documented pattern affecting a meaningful percentage of patients. The trial that informed the prescription was funded by the manufacturer.
Now it is today.
Your doctor has new guidelines. New studies. New consensus.
He is confident.
He has always been confident.
The confidence has never been the problem.
The confidence is, in fact, precisely the problem.
John Hopkins Hospital has had the patent for Mebendazole Polymorph for the TREATMENT AND PREVENTION OF TUMOURS for a long time.
This was suppressed because the Cancer Industry makes $225 Billion/year on their profitable Designer Drugs.
The Pharmaceutical Liars hate you.