EPA Science Could Torpedo Roundup Lawsuits
I have been using Roundup for a long time, and it's great for the purposes I have (removing vegetation from cracks on driveways, sidewalks and mulch beds). I have recently purchased the product at "fire sale" prices because the idiotic claims that it causes cancer have cratered public demand for Roundup.
I just love it when I can financially benefit from other peoples's stupidity.
So now we have the EPA finally putting a damper (if not the brakes) on this outrageous money grab by sleazy tort lawyers, aided and abetted by compromised trial court judges in various states. I have no illusion that this long-overdue SCIENTIFIC review of the science and literature will stop or defeat these thousands of cases around the country, but I hope that AT LEAST the defendant companies are permitted to introduce the contrary evidence to the often brain-dead juries.
I have long advocated for a national "science court" where government-funded scientists and lawyers (I would suggest members of the Patent Bar, who by definition are not scientifically illiterate) can examine legal claims of a scientific nature and make findings that bind tort courts, rather than allowing our unsophisticated juries to make these scientific determinations.
Utopian to be sure, but long overdue nevertheless.
Written by a member of the "Anti-Science Party."
I have been using Roundup for a long time, and it's great for the purposes I have (removing vegetation from cracks on driveways, sidewalks and mulch beds). I have recently purchased the product at "fire sale" prices because the idiotic claims that it causes cancer have cratered public demand for Roundup.
I just love it when I can financially benefit from other peoples's stupidity.
So now we have the EPA finally putting a damper (if not the brakes) on this outrageous money grab by sleazy tort lawyers, aided and abetted by compromised trial court judges in various states. I have no illusion that this long-overdue SCIENTIFIC review of the science and literature will stop or defeat these thousands of cases around the country, but I hope that AT LEAST the defendant companies are permitted to introduce the contrary evidence to the often brain-dead juries.
I have long advocated for a national "science court" where government-funded scientists and lawyers (I would suggest members of the Patent Bar, who by definition are not scientifically illiterate) can examine legal claims of a scientific nature and make findings that bind tort courts, rather than allowing our unsophisticated juries to make these scientific determinations.
Utopian to be sure, but long overdue nevertheless.
Written by a member of the "Anti-Science Party."