Victor Davis Hanson

But they said, you know, it's Roundup.

Everybody uses Roundup.

So if you got it on... No, I must have been bathed in Roundup myself.

I put it on for 20 years.

I got it all over myself.

But...

They were young and my daughter suddenly called me one day from, she was working at USC and she said she was at her office and she couldn't see.

And I drove down there, and she had an advanced form of leukemia and died in 48 hours.

Oh, God, that's terrible.

And then I start reading that Roundup exposure can cause lymphomas and blood cancers.

I have no idea, but the point is when it came out on the market, it was advertised as not a class one permit only drug.

herbicide you can get it at you know i i still use it you can get at home depot i have no idea if that had a connection but my point is the way that it was advertised was it was completely safe and um it it wasn't i don't think i don't know if there's a connection i don't want to make an unfounded allegation although there's been lawsuits where people won because they did demonstrate yeah they

to a jury that it caused blood cancer.

But you're absolutely right that governments and respected institutions, corporations say things at the time, and they don't just say them, they say unequivocally.

As my mom, my dad said, I remember, why would you have x-rays?

She goes, I didn't even know what they were.

They just said, it's a new treatment.

And he was dating her and he said, well, you were always sunburned.

And she said, that was good.

That was the treatment.