Spenny
spenny.bsky.social
Spenny
@spenny.bsky.social
PhD in Medical Genetics / Genomics / Paediatric Cancer Research / Drug Safety / 2018 Norwood Fair 2nd place chocolate chip cookies
Was a highlight - would be amazing to have the poems published!
February 7, 2025 at 8:12 PM
Hopefully see you there!
February 6, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Wrong Spenny ;)
January 16, 2025 at 9:33 PM
It is not. Was reclassified to Group 3.
November 29, 2024 at 1:36 AM
This is coming from my extensive training in epidemiology - where we also acknowledged some of the more aggressive business tactics by Monsanto (now Bayer) to ensure product adoption in lower/middle income countries.
November 28, 2024 at 2:13 PM
Sorry I don’t mean to cause conflict.

Glyphosate has a non-zero risk associated with certain cancer - this review summarizes some of that data. There is a dose-dependent effect, so not likely to impact risk in food supply, but likely for long term exposure pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
Exposure to Glyphosate-Based Herbicides and Risk for Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma: A Meta-Analysis and Supporting Evidence
Glyphosate is the most widely used broad-spectrum systemic herbicide in the world. Recent evaluations of the carcinogenic potential of glyphosate-based herbicides (GBHs) by various regional, national,...
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
November 28, 2024 at 2:10 PM
Glyphosate is a group 2A agent (probably carcinogenic to humans) as classified by IARC.

There is some clinical equipoise there, and certainly a dose dependent relationship with risk, but it is not 0.
November 28, 2024 at 1:45 PM
Would appreciate an add!
November 18, 2024 at 7:13 PM
I’d love to be added - plenty to share in this space!
November 16, 2024 at 4:15 AM