Martin wrote:


On 13/06/2013 18:26, David Hill wrote:

Very little can be read into the word "volunteer", especially
since the report is written by non-native speakers of English.

Maltese speak English often as a first language.


If people had bothered to read the final link you would have seen that
the study was done in Germany

See
https://www.bund.net/fileadmin/bundn...in_analyse.pdf


But it's makes you look much better to rubbish things without reading
properly.

I did read it properly.
If you had read it properly you would have seen that the paper
addresses the analyses and results and not how the samples were
obtained or whether the number of samples and method of collection
are statistically significant.

Thanks for continuing to include the relevant part of the
previous messages. From that it can be seen that your points
aren't particularly relevant to the preceding points.


I do know that the Dutch government regularly samples ground water for
pesticide residues and that they have found glyphosate residues in
sufficient quantities to justify a future ban on sales of glyphosate
to private users, but not to commercial growers. Maybe somebody can
explain the logic in that?

That has nothing to do with the original and subsequent points.

I suggest that the answer to this new question might
be found by "following the money". But that's a different
discussion.