A key paper on its safety from 2000 was retracted: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46161125

Like the tobacco industry before them, a Monsanto employee proposed producing a scientific paper with outside scientists: “by us doing the writing and they would just edit & sign their names so to speak” — see https://retractionwatch.com/2025/12/04/glyphosate-safety-art...

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tptacek 3 hours ago | parent [-]

There isn't one single study that glyphosate safety is based on. It's an intensively studied substance.

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keane 3 hours ago | parent [-]

I didn’t claim there was only one study. The concern is the corporate culture introducing biases into studies. In the tobacco industry, this was a pattern.

	▲	tptacek 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		There was overwhelming evidence, some of it preceding modern human health science, that smoking was damaging.