#Oops: The seminal (strongly influencing later developments) paper that has been used for 25 years to justify that the use of #Glyphosate is safe has been retracted.
"Concerns were raised regarding the authorship of this paper, validity of the research findings in the context of misrepresentation of the contributions by the authors and the study sponsor and potential conflicts of interest of the authors. "
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0273230099913715
RE: https://social.wildeboer.net/@jwildeboer/115644006415261401
This should be known more widely!
An example of how "corporate-influenced research" has shaped the public discourse: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1462901125001765
It is explicitly mentioned that all of this ends up in the training data of #LLMs.
The example is on #Glyphosate in particular, the pattern is unfortunately more widespread.