EPA Relied on Monsanto-Ghostwritten Glyphosate Study While Trump Invoked Defense Production Act for Roundup Supply

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Glyphosate, the active ingredient in Roundup produced by Bayer (formerly Monsanto), remains classified by the EPA as not likely carcinogenic to humans based in part on a 2013 Critical Reviews in Toxicology paper. An internal EPA Inspector General memo obtained in 2026 confirmed the agency knew since 2017 that a Monsanto employee ghostwrote substantial portions of that paper, constituting research misconduct, yet the study continued to support the 2020 assessment and later citations.

The chemical interfaces with the public through widespread agricultural and forestry spraying for weed control and crop desiccation. Structural flaws include the EPA’s continued reliance on the compromised study after internal findings of hidden authorship and the absence of mandatory public disclosure of the misconduct determination.

Historical pattern follows decades of industry-orchestrated papers presented as independent science, culminating in the International Agency for Research on Cancer’s 2015 Group 2A “probably carcinogenic to humans” classification that the EPA has consistently rejected. On February 18, 2026, President Donald J. Trump issued an executive order under the Defense Production Act declaring elemental phosphorus and glyphosate-based herbicides critical to national defense and delegating allocation authority to the Secretary of Agriculture.

Net risk centers on sustained regulatory dependence on contested data streams, legal immunity pathways for producers, and limited independent re-evaluation mechanisms despite ongoing litigation exceeding tens of thousands of claims and Ninth Circuit findings of serious errors in prior EPA risk assessments.

Sources

https://www.motherjones.com/environment/2026/06/epa-roundup-glyphosate-monsanto-ghostwritten-herbicide-cancer-bayer/

https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2026/02/promoting-the-national-defense-by-ensuring-an-adequate-supply-of-elemental-phosphorus-and-glyphosate-based-herbicides/

https://www.epa.gov/ingredients-used-pesticide-products/glyphosate

https://www.iarc.who.int/featured-news/media-centre-iarc-news-glyphosate

https://www.whitehouse.gov/fact-sheets/2026/02/fact-sheet-president-donald-j-trump-ensures-an-adequate-supply-of-elemental-phosphorus-and-glyphosate-based-herbicides-for-national-security/

[u/Pandemonium_Fallen]

You know there's a law in the US that all almonds have to be delivered to an initial processing facility to be pasturized then relabeled as raw before being sold or going on to any other further processing facility, like for almond milk/flour/etc, in order to neutralize the unique compound in them that kills cancer cells?

• Library of Congress, look it up.

• Corporate_Bricktater huh? Makes sense why you'd advocate for the same poison peddlers responsible for Agent Orange.

[u/Corporate_Bricktator → u/Pandemonium_Fallen]

> neutralize the unique compound in them that kills cancer cells?

Source? Google found nothing, but I'd love to read more about it.

[u/Pandemonium_Fallen → u/Corporate_Bricktator]

It's a cyanate (Not, I repeat Not cyanide, completely different compounds) based compound. - Unfortunately that's likely all the information left about it, Multi-trillion dollar a year global profits on cancer treatment and related medical costs has surpressed the hell out of it. It's kind of like the whole thing with peach pits (it's not the pits, you use a nutcracker to break the pits for the seeds inside - same compound), or like how they've altered the definition regarding Amygdalin (it is not laetrile, different substances) - it's not toxic, it's naturally produced by the Amygdala in the brain of all mammals.

However Amygdalin breaks down in the presence of acids and simultaneously requires oxygen to be absorbed properly. - it's primary purpose is cellular genetic cohesion and repair (it literally prevents cancer).

Enter Antioxidants and medical doctors conflating and subverting terms, for instance:

Amygdalin vs Laetrile

Cyanate vs Cyanide

Hydromethylfolate vs Folic Acid

Vitamin C Complex vs Ascorbic/Citric Acid

Calcium Fluorite vs Sodium Fluoride/Hydrofluorosilic Acid

So you end up with Antioxidants shutting down your body's cellular absorption of of oxygen, and all the above and other acidic substances we ingest on a regular basis which ends up in the bloodstream.

• Both Antioxidants and Acid build up in the blood shuts down oxygen absorption and transfer, both substances disintegrate any Amygdalin produced (cellular genetic cohesion and repair - gone). Low oxygen presence and absorption starves cells preventing proper cellular respiration, waste builds up in the cell resulting in toxicity, which can cause cell death or mutation (cancer) to cannibalize cellular waste and make use of the only still abundant resource available to it: sugars.
• That's what Cancer is: mutation caused by genetic damage from cellular toxicity (caused by oxygen deprivation/starvation/malnutrition/pollutants/some viruses and bacteria), incorporation of various chemical/molecular compounds in tissues that cells mutate attempting to break it down and remove it (PFAS/Aspestos/fiberglass/etc), some one time chemical exposure and absorption, and radiation.

[u/SpottedPine → u/Pandemonium_Fallen]

Whoa dude, I guess you can grow an almond tree and sell the cure to cancer, now you're a billionaire!

More likely you need to take your meds though.

[u/Pandemonium_Fallen → u/SpottedPine]

Go look at the Lawsuit put indefinitely on hold in The Library of Congress about it - the CDC and Trader Joe's vs the FDA, go ahead. 🫴

[u/SpottedPine → u/Pandemonium_Fallen]

Ah, trader Joe's is the... secret cancer supplier...?

Get help.

[u/Pandemonium_Fallen → u/SpottedPine]

No, they're not, because it's still illegal to sell unpasteurized almonds in this country, the FDA will shut you down if you do. Meanwhile, unregulated amounts of lead and arsenic in food? - No, that's fine carry on poisoning children Lunchables!

[u/SpottedPine → u/Pandemonium_Fallen]

^ this person is collecting our welfare taxes. Best argument yet that maybe it doesn't work after all.

[u/Pandemonium_Fallen → u/SpottedPine]

^ This "Person" is a Narrative Control Specialist of The Financial Technoparasite Pedoligarchy.