After reading about the mysterious firing and payoff of glysophate studying scientists it seems obvious what stone is going unturned here.

They are very litigious.

They are also strangely generous. They fund a lot of good, as they know how to conceive of "good". They are more like mostly-benevolent-but-controlling royalty of sorts. Including the "everyone has an opinion" part of royalty. Whether they are good or bad for the region, there are polarizing views.

I understand the general vibe as a learned helplessness of sorts.

I mean look at the number of industry apologists in this thread alone.

Strikingly similar to the reaction around cancer clusters, including the witch doctors who still think “mass hysteria” is a thing.

It’s not always environmental, but it’s usually environmental and weird to not start with that assumption.