Announcement: Supreme Court’s Roundup ruling exposes a fundamental divide between legal and scientific causation standards

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Prof. Giorgi Pkhakadze
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The US Supreme Court's recent glyphosate ruling exposes a fundamental gap: courts and scientists both use the word "causation," but they are answering fundamentally different questions about risk and responsibility. Understanding this divide is essential for clinicians, patients, and policymakers navigating the intersection of science and law. — Photo by Tara Winstead on Pexels (Pexels License)
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The Supreme Court's Roundup ruling exposes a critical gap: courts and scientists both use "causation," but mean entirely different things. Legal causation asks: Did this product cause this person's cancer? Scientific causation asks: Is there population-level evidence of association and biological plausibility? Understanding this divide is essential for patients, clinicians, and policymakers. Read our explainer.

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Prof. Giorgi Pkhakadze, MD, MPH, PhD, is Editor-in-Chief of the Georgian Medical Journal and Chair of the Public Health Institute of Georgia (PHIG). He is Professor and Head of the Department of Social and Behavioural Sciences at David Tvildiani Medical University, and Secretary/Treasurer of the UEMS Section of Public Health. ORCID: 0000-0001-7609-4515.

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