“Why Scientists Love Chasing Bats. The threat to humans from animal viruses is small. The financial incentive to pretend otherwise is large”/ WSJ

Now it wants a liability shield to end the lawsuits, and it is determined to get it, by hook or by crook.  Can we stop it? In 2018, Bayer acquired Monsanto, despite Monsanto starting to lose legal cases in which Roundup was alleged to have caused cancer. It must have looked like a clever deal to Bayer, with the litigation reducing Monsanto’s price. But Bayer did not foresee that the Roundup litigation could get out of hand.