A run down of the company this guy works for.
@Bayer one of the most EVIL origin stories of them all. Here is a little list I had
@Grok pull together to remind him of who he works for:
- Bayer commercially launched heroin (diacetylmorphine) in 1898 as a "non-addictive" cough medicine and morphine substitute, aggressively marketing it—including to children—for tuberculosis and other illnesses until its addictive dangers became undeniable.
- In 1925 Bayer merged into the IG Farben cartel, which donated millions to the Nazi Party, seized Jewish-owned companies through Aryanization, and became a core supplier to Hitler's war machine.
- IG Farben (including Bayer facilities) operated the Buna synthetic rubber factory at Auschwitz III-Monowitz using thousands of concentration-camp slave laborers, where prisoner life expectancy averaged under four months due to starvation, beatings, and executions.
- Bayer paid SS doctors to conduct lethal medical experiments on Auschwitz, Dachau, and Buchenwald prisoners by deliberately infecting them with typhus, tuberculosis, and other diseases to test unproven drugs, often requesting replacement inmates when test subjects died.
- After World War II, IG Farben was dismantled for war crimes; several convicted executives—including those who planned the Auschwitz factory—served short sentences and later returned to senior leadership roles at the re-formed Bayer.
- In the early 1980s Bayer’s Cutter Laboratories continued exporting millions of dollars’ worth of untreated, HIV-contaminated blood-clotting Factor VIII to Asia and Latin America for over a year after introducing a safer heat-treated version in the West, infecting thousands of hemophiliacs.
- Bayer’s 2018 $63 billion acquisition of Monsanto saddled the company with tens of thousands of lawsuits alleging its Roundup glyphosate herbicide causes non-Hodgkin lymphoma, resulting in more than $11 billion already paid in verdicts and settlements plus a proposed $7.25 billion class-action resolution.
- Bayer withdrew its cholesterol drug Baycol (cerivastatin) from the global market in 2001 after it was linked to approximately 52 deaths and hundreds of cases of severe muscle breakdown (rhabdomyolysis).
- Bayer has faced widespread regulatory bans and lawsuits over its neonicotinoid insecticides after scientific evidence showed they contribute to massive declines in bee populations and broader ecosystem damage.
this is who you work for...
Cancer should not be used as a political weapon.
Over the past decade, glyphosate has been turned into a symbol — of industrial agriculture, of multinational corporations, of environmental anxiety.
But somewhere along the way, nuance disappeared.
Here’s what gets lost in the noise:
• Hazard is not risk.
• Classification is not exposure.
• Headlines are not toxicology.
In 2015, International Agency for Research on Cancer classified glyphosate as “probably carcinogenic” based on hazard identification.
That classification does not mean people are developing cancer from normal exposure.
Regulatory agencies that assess real-world exposure — like European Food Safety Authority — repeatedly concluded that glyphosate is unlikely to pose a cancer risk at approved exposure levels.
This distinction matters.
When cancer is invoked without context, it creates fear.
When fear replaces proportional risk assessment, public trust erodes.
When trust erodes, science becomes collateral damage.
Cancer patients deserve seriousness.
Farmers deserve evidence-based regulation.
Citizens deserve clarity — not symbolism.
Using cancer as a rhetorical shortcut in political debates may generate clicks.
It does not generate better health policy.
Science is not served by exaggeration.
And public health is not strengthened by alarmism.
The debate about agriculture, sustainability, and chemical regulation is legitimate.
But it should be grounded in exposure data, toxicology, epidemiology — not in emotionally charged framing that equates “presence” with “danger.”
Cancer is too serious to be instrumentalised.