In 2017, a lawsuit uncovered internal emails from chemical giant Monsanto that suggested its employees helped 'ghostwrite' an influential paper that claimed to find no evidence the company’s widely used glyphosate herbicide, Roundup, caused cancer. Now, the scientific journal that published the 2000 paper has announced it has been retracted, at the request of Harvard scientist Naomi Oreskes.
Guest: Naomi Oreskes, Henry Charles Lea Professor of the History of Science at Harvard University.
Producer: Ali Benton
The authority which regulates pesticides in Australia - the Australian Pesticides and Veterinary Medicines Authority (APVMA) - maintains that glyphosate products are "...considered safe to use when the instructions on the label are followed."
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Fifteen types of imported flowers and foliage are dipped in glyphosate before arriving in Australia.