Viewpoint: Glyphosate may be hazardous, but it is not dangerous as used by farmers. Critics of the Supreme Court’s Roundup ruling garble hazard with risk Alex Smolak | STAT | July 1, 2026

https://geneticliteracyproject.org/2026/07/01/viewpoint-glyphosate-may-be-hazardous-but-it-is-not-dangerous-as-used-by-farmers-critics-of-the-supreme-courts-roundup-ruling-garble-hazard-with-risk/ … In epidemiology, causation is usually a population-level inference. Researchers ask whether an exposure reliably changes disease risk across groups of people. That requires replication, statistical association, dose-response evidence, biological plausibility, and efforts to rule out confounding. Even then, conclusions remain probabilistic. A risk factor can increase disease likelihood without proving why one person became ill.