A cornerstone scientific paper long used by global regulators — including authorities in New Zealand — to justify the widespread use of glyphosate-based weedkillers has been formally retracted, after revelations it was secretly ghostwritten by the world’s major supplier of the chemical, Monsanto.
The 2000 review by Williams, Kroes and Munro had claimed that Roundup posed “no health risk to humans,” shaping pesticide policy worldwide for a quarter of a century.
Regulators, industry groups and policymakers repeatedly leaned on the paper as evidence that glyphosate was safe, helping cement its status as a “low-risk” chemical despite escalating public concern and emerging independent research.
But both the journal Regulatory Toxicology and Pharmacology and new analyses confirm the paper’s scientific foundation has collapsed.
The journal’s Editor-in-Chief stated that Monsanto employees likely wrote substantial portions of the article without disclosure — a breach of fundamental scientific ethics.
The retraction also cites omitted carcinogenicity data, reliance almost exclusively on Monsanto-generated studies, undisclosed financial ties, and a complete failure by the surviving author to respond to requests for clarification.
Litigation from U.S. Roundup cancer cases first exposed the ghostwriting in 2017, yet regulatory agencies continued citing the review for years afterward.
Independent experts say the implications are profound.
The compromised paper heavily influenced assessments by the U.S. EPA, WHO/FAO, Health Canada, and New Zealand regulators, all of which referenced it when asserting that glyphosate is unlikely to cause cancer.
Critics argue this constitutes a clear case of regulatory capture: a corporate-produced narrative masquerading as “independent science”, used to approve and defend millions of pounds of herbicide use worldwide.
New analyses, including a controlled animal study showing aggressive cancers at doses deemed “safe” under U.S. and EU standards, and a 2019 meta-analysis reporting a 41% increased risk of non-Hodgkin lymphoma among highly exposed individuals, further undermine the original review’s reassurances.
In New Zealand, the group NoMoreGlyphosate NZ says the retraction strikes at the heart of the scientific framework used to justify continued approvals. The organisation notes that glyphosate and its metabolite AMPA have been found in common household foods including honey and breakfast cereals, and argues that the collapse of the Williams/Kroes/Munro paper removes a key pillar underpinning regulators’ long-standing claims of safety. The group says the revelations demand an independent, transparent reassessment of glyphosate-based herbicides.
Far from an academic technicality, the retraction marks a seismic shift in the evidence base that has guided environmental and public-health decisions for 25 years. As one analyst put it, the fall of the paper is “an indictment of an entire regulatory era built on deception” — and it places renewed pressure on governments, including New Zealand’s, to justify ongoing glyphosate use with real, independent science rather than industry-shaped narratives.
Just happened to come across this mini documentary
And slots in here perfectly
NZ is suffering from the end results of what has been a long line in succession of failed inept leadership
And doesn’t go away with the current failed leadership saying the present Minister of Finance is doing an “outstanding job”
The other side of the equation is Jewish usury which inevitably ends in a cycle of destruction
Which we are experiencing now
A cycle of doom and lawlessness
https://www.bitchute.com/video/yfHNAWFNcvWH
I agree Oy Vey. Luxons promotion of liars and thieves:
1. Nicola Willis gives $48m to a kapahaka festival which costs $5.5m to run and receives $7m income,
3. Simon Watts 2/12 energy reforms,
4. Willis useless market study and ineffective actions on the Aussie supermarket cartel making kiwi families grocery bills $10,000 a year more expensive than their Aussie counterparts.
4. the bribe taking Scott Simpsons inaction on Aussie banks illegal excess $8b profits this year.
Is perpetuatsing the downfall of our once great nation.
The best and brightest are fleeing in record numbers.
Our only hope is Luxon fulfils his promise to bring Aussie cartel: banking, groceries. Insurance and energy costs down so successful international firms, which will bring income into NZ (IKEA just takes our money to Sweden), want to invest here (none have come so far which is another HUGE broken Luxon promise)
As the even more corrupt Labour Politicians like to ask in question time….
If not, why not Chris?
Well is anyone surprised? Its all about money and never about people. The irony here is these chemicals can effect anyone, just like these GMO based crops and foods. So those profiting, may well be making themselves sick too. The food chain effects everyone. Human hubris, greed and stupidity, at its worst.
Death misery destruction
And not Freedom Liberty and Prosperity
The Destroyers
The sackers of civilizations
Infiltration takeover and control
The termites that never sleep planning Our destruction by any means available
Greatest tool miscegenation (race mixing) (adultery-to alter) corruption propaganda and lies
A minority group always the victim a perennial parasite an adversary and predator
Just like Our Achilles heel local variety – insatiable and never able to be placated
Masquerading as being indigenous and a race
The International Jew
Jews ain’t Israel
Galatians 2:4 “And that because of false brethren unawares brought in, who came in privily to spy out our liberty which we have in Christ Jesus, that they might bring us into bondage:”
All things are working together for Our good
Glyphosate is linked inextricably to the Vietnam war of attrition on a foreign soil?
Yes — glyphosate was indeed linked to the Vietnam War. It was one of the herbicidal compounds used in Agent Orange and other “Rainbow Herbicides” sprayed by the U.S. military during Operation Ranch Hand (1962–1971). These chemicals were deployed to defoliate forests, destroy crops, and expose enemy positions, leaving long-lasting ecological and health consequences.
🌿 Glyphosate and Agent Orange
– Agent Orange was the most infamous herbicide used in Vietnam. It contained a mix of chemicals, including 2,4-D and 2,4,5-T, contaminated with dioxin (TCDD), which caused severe health problems.
– Glyphosate, the active ingredient later commercialized in Roundup, was also part of the herbicidal arsenal. It was used in combination with other chemicals to strip vegetation and disrupt food supplies.
– These herbicides were collectively called the “Rainbow Herbicides” (Agent Orange, Agent Blue, Agent White, etc.), each with slightly different chemical formulations.
🌏 Scale of Use
– Between 1962 and 1971, U.S. forces sprayed about 80 million liters of herbicides across Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia.
– Roughly 2.9 million hectares of farmland and forests were affected, and up to 4 million Vietnamese civilians were exposed.
– The ecological damage included long-lasting residues in soil, water, and food chains, which persist decades later.
⚠️ Consequences
– Human health impacts: Exposure led to cancers, birth defects, and other chronic illnesses among Vietnamese civilians and U.S. veterans.
– Environmental impacts: Forest ecosystems were devastated, biodiversity collapsed, and soils were contaminated.
– Legacy: Vietnam still struggles with contaminated “hot spots,” and communities continue to suffer intergenerational health effects.
🔍 Key Distinction
While glyphosate today is mostly associated with agriculture (e.g., Monsanto’s Roundup), its military use in Vietnam was part of a broader chemical warfare program. Unlike dioxin-contaminated Agent Orange, glyphosate itself is not a dioxin, but its deployment in Vietnam tied it to the same destructive legacy.
👉 In short: glyphosate was one of several herbicides used in the Vietnam War, as part of Agent Orange and related defoliants. Its role connects modern debates about Roundup to the darker history of chemical warfare in Southeast Asia.
Source co Pilot AI
TV3 Documentary “Let Us Spray” — Censored from New Zealand Television
Now waiting on the Landmark Fluoride “safety” study retraction.
This issue is significant but also a distraction away from the nanotechnology infusing covid jabs still being pushed.
It’s great to see Monsanto shamed for their criminal behaviors (including at least one dead farmer decades ago who went against the grain) but the problem is deeper and needs quick action to expose the actual reality such as transhumanism and grain contamination and morgellons disease (Tick and Lyme related).
Glyphosate among other issues like Fluoride are important to tackle but we need to get to the root level before it’s too late and anyone who sees the jab being a clot forming death nell for humans will likely know what I’m on about.
Our bodies are so contaminated by the behaviour of Monsanto and others like big pharma and big tech funders it’s sickening.
No surprises here. Most of us already knew that