JRE #2461 - Robert F. Kennedy Jr. · Aired Feb 27, 2026
Claim summary · not a verbatim quotation
Glyphosate (Roundup) causes cancer and its levels in food are dangerous.
The finding
What the evidence shows
This is a genuine split between agencies, not a settled fact either way. The World Health Organization's cancer agency classifies glyphosate as probably carcinogenic to humans. The EPA concluded it is not likely to be, though a federal appeals court in 2022 found the agency had ignored studies and sidelined its own advisory panel in reaching that. Stating it flatly as causing cancer skips over a real disagreement.
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Quick answer
Is it true that Glyphosate (Roundup) causes cancer and its levels in food are dangerous?
Partly. The claim stretches what the evidence shows. This is a genuine split between agencies, not a settled fact either way. The World Health Organization's cancer agency classifies glyphosate as probably carcinogenic to humans. It was said on JRE #2461 - Robert F. Kennedy Jr., aired Feb 27, 2026, at 1:02:18. We haven't independently confirmed who said it. The supporting source is epa.gov, linked below.
The context belongs here.
No separately verified on-air correction is recorded for this check. That is not a claim that nobody corrected it.
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- Coverage
- One selected claim from the episode
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