Herbicide "safety" paper ghost­written by Monsanto gets bounced 25 years too late

That rock‑solid study that regulators leaned on for decades to claim glyphosate was harmless? It's gone. The journal formally retracted the 2000 paper after admitting it was ghostwritten by the chemical's maker, leaving a crater where public trust once stood.

Last week, the journal Regulatory Toxicology and Pharmacology retracted a paper published in 2000 that concluded the herbicide glyphosate, the main ingredient in Roundup, is safe for humans.

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