IARC under fire: Congressman presses investigation of US taxpayer-funded UN cancer agency

Julie Kelly | October 10, 2016 | Genetic Literacy Project

Jason Chaffetz, Utah congressman and chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, wants to know why U.S. taxpayers are funding an international agency that routinely finds nearly everything the it evaluates causes cancer, from drinking hot beverages to working as a hairdresser. Its reports have also branded coffee, mobile phones and processed meat as dangerous products that cause cancer. The International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) has come under fire recently for using bad science to reach politically motivated conclusions in an attempt to shape public policy.........activists received a major gift in March 2015 when IARC claimed glyphosate is carcinogenic, the only agency to do so. Even though IARC admits it found only limited evidence of carcinogenicity for one type of cancer, non-Hodgkins lymphoma, the agency nonetheless put glyphosate in the same cancer-causing category as human papillomavirus and mustard gas...........At a time when Americans are increasingly wary about scientific subjects like GMOs and vaccines, why should taxpayers fund an agency that peddles bogus science? It’s a question worth asking and kudos to Chaffetz for asking it........To Read More.......