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Wall Street Journal outlines the accusations of scientific manipulation at the heart of the Monsanto Roundup scandal. Plaintiffs lawyers claim that normal collaboration between industry and academia is nefarious, therefore Roundup causes cancer. The vast bulk of scientific evidence to the contrary is ignored or cast into doubt by these spurious accusations. https://www.wsj.com/articles/roundup-the-weedkiller-that-changed-farming-faces-a-reckoning-11554735900 Roundup, the World’s Best-Selling Weedkiller, Faces a Legal Reckoning Plaintiffs’ lawyers say research was skewed by company cooperation with scientists; Bayer AG says the product is safe By   Jacob Bunge  and  Ruth Bender Updated April 8, 2019 11:59 p.m. ET For years, scientists at Monsanto Co. worked closely with outside researchers on studies that concluded its Roundup weedkiller was safe. That collaboration is now one of the biggest liabilities for the world’s most widely used herbicide and its new owne