"dave @ stejonda" wrote in message
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There's a news story at

http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99994051

which reports that laboratory studies have suggested that glyphosate
increases the risk of fungal infections.

I have read the URL. The item is interesting, but it was quite incorrect to
publish it in New Scientist at this stage, since the work is quite
inconclusive so far, and the article contains zero quantitative information
to help the reader decide whether the effect is statistically significant or
not.. The folk involved are not making any claims yet, they are only making
suggestions.

My initial reaction is that since it is known that water also affects the
population of a number of malignant organisms, one should ban the use of
water in agriculture.

Franz