The last EPA review of glyphosate was thrown out due to ghostwritten research and bribery to EPA officials.

Nov 8, 2026

Previously: The last EPA review of glyphosate was thrown out due to ghostwritten research and bribery to EPA officials. [Distorted]: The most recent EPA glyphosate decision was in fact thrown out. In June 2022 the Ninth Circuit set aside the human-health part of EPA's 2020 interim decision, and EPA then withdrew the whole decision. But the court's reason was that EPA's cancer analysis contradicted itself, not ghostwritten research or bribery; Monsanto's ghostwriting of some studies came out in lawsuits, but no court found that EPA officials were bribed. On the 30 years point, EPA's last finished full re-registration was in 1993, but it reassessed glyphosate from 2017 through 2020. This verdict would be wrong if the Ninth Circuit's NRDC v. EPA opinion, or any other court ruling, gave ghostwriting or bribery as a reason for setting aside the review.

Now: The last EPA review of glyphosate was thrown out due to ghostwritten research and bribery to EPA officials. [Distorted]: The Ninth Circuit vacated the human-health portion of EPA's 2020 decision in June 2022 because its analysis did not adequately support its cancer conclusion, and addressed endangered-species obligations separately. The opinion is not a judicial finding that bribery caused the review to be thrown out. Industry ghostwriting is a separate evidentiary issue; it should not be substituted for the court's actual legal reasoning.

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