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    Emails Reveal Monsanto's Tactics To Defend Glyphosate Against Cancer Fears

    Newly released internal emails show Monsanto executives scrambling to counter a U.N. agency's conclusion that glyphosate can cause cancer. One executive proposed "ghost-writing" scientific papers.
    by Dan Charles Mar 15, 2017 1 minute
    Members of Avaaz civic organization dress as crop-sprayers on May 18, 2016 at the Schuman roundabout in Brussels, in protest at the European Commissions' plans to relicense glyphosate, the controversial, carcinogenic weed-killer. / AFP / JOHN THYS / Getty Images

    Two years ago, a U.N.-sponsored scientific agency declared that the popular weedkiller glyphosate probably causes cancer. That from the International Agency for Research on Cancer caused an international uproar. Monsanto, the company that invented glyphosate and still sells most of it, unleashed

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