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Rounding up the weed killer cancer conundrum

FromMore or Less: Behind the Stats


Currently unavailable

Rounding up the weed killer cancer conundrum

FromMore or Less: Behind the Stats

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Length:
9 minutes
Released:
Apr 8, 2019
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

A recent scientific review claims the weed killer glyphosate raises the risk of developing the cancer non-Hodgkin lymphoma by 41 percent. But deciding what causes cancer can be complicated and there are lots of people and organisations on different sides arguing for against this. So in this edition of More or Less, we look at the disagreements and how the authors of the review came up with the results. With cancer epidemiologist Dr Geoffrey Kabat, Toxicologist Dr Luoping Zhang and statistician Sir David Spiegelhalter. Producer: Darin Graham Presenter: Charlotte McDonald Editor: Richard Vadon
Picture: Tractor spraying a field of wheat
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Released:
Apr 8, 2019
Format:
Podcast episode

Titles in the series (100)

Tim Harford and the More or Less team try to make sense of the statistics which surround us. From BBC Radio 4