Source: Revealed: The secret push to bury a weedkiller’s link to Parkinson’s disease
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Syngenta, the global chemical giant, has attempted to sway research regarding a connection between top-selling weedkiller, paraquat, and Parkinson’s, according to internal corporate documents. The documents reveal several tactics to manipulate scientific reports, misleading regulators about the research, and engaging lawyers to alter scientific reports in ways that played down worrisome findings. Syngenta also created a team to respond to new reports that could hinder its ability to sell paraquat and to create a scientific consensus that paraquat poses no risk to people’s health and wellbeing.
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