Could Monsanto could follow the path of the Johns-Manville company which manufactured asbestos in the 1880s?
“Heavy smoking greatly increases risk of lung cancer, but it is impossible to prove that an individual smoker’s lung cancer was due to smoking, since even lifelong nonsmokers sometimes get lung cancer. There is no reliable laboratory test to identify the specific cause of an individual cancer”, Professor Stevens wrote in a piece forHowever, Monsanto has also been found to have questionable involvement in scientific papers.
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