Internal Monsanto emails revealed during the Missouri trial show company executives planned to recruit outside scientists to author pro-Roundup studies “ghost-written by Monsanto employees,” with executive William Heydens writing they would keep costs down “by us doing the writing and they would just edit & sign their names.”
This represents the worst kind of corporate deception – manufacturing fake scientific credibility while knowing their product causes cancer, then using that fraudulent research to influence public health policy. The company’s own scientist admitted to “reviewing and editing scientific articles about glyphosate without being listed as an author,” a practice she acknowledged was “common at Monsanto.”
Meanwhile, the EPA continues to claim glyphosate is safe based partly on these compromised studies, showing how food and chemical companies corrupt the scientific process to avoid regulation.
When corporations can buy fake science to cover up health risks, communities bear the real costs through increased cancer rates and healthcare expenses that never show up in the original cost-benefit analysis.