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Is the conflation of ‘hazard’ and ‘risk’ skewing the pesticides debate?

By Ian Plewis Filed Under: Energy and Environment Posted: December 11, 2017

The debate over the safety and impact of pesticides – and especially the weedkiller glyphosate – is littered with ignorance of available statistics, conceptual confusion and misuse of statistical methods, writes Ian Plewis, Emeritus Professor of Social Statistics at The University of Manchester. The evidence indicates that the risks from glyphosate are small once typical […]

Tagged With: cancer, data, herbicides, pesticides

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