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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They were attended by scientists and journalists.

The focus was learning how to communicate modern biotechnology to the public in a way that felt accessible, which sounds harmless enough.

But according to Stacey, these conferences were really doing something else.

The funding can be hard to trace because universities have different channels they can route donations through.

That's the kind of scrutiny that recently led to a setback for Monsanto.

Remember the 2000 study, the one that concluded glyphosate was safe for humans?

It appeared to have been written by independent experts, but it was later revealed to have been ghostwritten by Monsanto.

And in December, 2025, the publisher officially retracted it, 25 years later.

I wanted to understand what that actually means.

Does a retraction this far down the line change anything?

So I called someone who's been tracking this study from the beginning, investigative journalist, Kerry Gillum.

And that's part of what made Monsanto's playbook so powerful.

Attach scientific credibility to a claim, and it can shape public understanding for decades, even when new evidence complicates the picture.

But Kerry reminded me of something.

This strategy predates Monsanto.

Eventually, this strategy caught up with Monsanto.

Starting in 2018, the company went to trial for a series of lawsuits over Roundup.

One of those lawsuits was filed by a California school groundskeeper.

He argued that Roundup had given him cancer and that Monsanto had manipulated science and intentionally misled the public all along.

All told, Monsanto's parent company has now faced roughly $14 billion related to Roundup cancer lawsuits.

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