Margot (Margo) Gray

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461 appearances 2 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 5 Aug

Margot (Margo) Gray’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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Not the public, not regulators.

They needed someone else to say it.

Preferably scientists.

Scientists who looked independent.

And Monsanto worked to make that happen.

Independent scientists concluding that glyphosate posed no cancer risk and no reproductive harm for humans.

The thing is, these scientists weren't exactly operating independently.

Behind the scenes, Monsanto employees were actually running the study.

We know this because of emails that later became public.

But at the time, no one realized this.

So the paper was a massive success.

It ended up in the top one-tenth of one percent of the most cited glyphosate studies in academic literature.

And it became a key piece of evidence for regulators around the world.

What would you say was Monsanto's takeaway from organizing this study?

Over the coming years, Monsanto would find plenty of ways to collaborate with academics to do that.

Roundup poses no risk to human health or safety.

That was the conclusion of a major study published in 2000, supposedly written by three independent experts.

What no one knew at the time was that the project had actually begun inside Monsanto's own headquarters.

So the public listened.

And for a while, calls to regulate Roundup quieted.

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