The Sound of Settled Science

Obviously, Jean, you are a true believer in the idea that chemical companies are out to get you, make huuuge profits, and destroy the world for humanity. I know you can always tell a progressive librul, but you can't tell them much. We have had superweeds resistant to glyphosates since the 1820s. The most well known is Johnson Grass. No, not named after LBJ. but named after the plantation owner who brought it into the country. I'm sure he thought it was a good idea at the time, but it has seeds AND ryzomes which make it almost impossible to kill out, and it eats glyphosate for dinner. Buttercups and Missouri or mule thistles are also quite pesty. But, if you hypnotized true believer heard it on a government radio station (NPR) it must be true. Can I sell you some rope or tar and feathers to punish those dirty scientist at Monsanto? Maybe when Hillary is elected, she will make you head of the EPA or department of agriculture. You apparently have all the qualifications - a female agronomy expert.

This is not political, not as bad as Lysenko or the Crimatologists, who deliberately fudge data. He is talking about honest, stupid, mistakes that people cannot later fess up to because of reputation.

Right. He's not talking incompetence either. The problem isn't the errors, it's the refusal to acknowledge error.

Your response to a published article is ridiculous. You make assumptions about people you don't know based on what you think about an excerpt from an article they posted on an internet blog. How risibly shallow of you. Do you always shoot the messenger when you don't understand the message? Your assumed opinion of me personally is irrelevant to the discussion, keep it to yourself and you won't look so foolish.

Now back to the science so do try to keep up. This is a link,
http://www.weedscience.org/Graphs/chronologicalIncreaseuSA.aspx
click on it to see a graph which shows how the number of unique cases of herbicide resistance in weeds in the U.S. rapidly increases in the years following Monsanto’s introduction of Roundup Ready GMO seed in the mid-1990s. The so called 'settled science' on herbicides wasn't so settled at all.

You're a knowledgeable sort of person, so figure it out yourself and draw your own conclusions.

"a graph which shows how the number of unique cases of herbicide resistance in weeds in the U.S. rapidly increases in the years following Monsanto’s introduction of Roundup Ready GMO seed in the mid-1990s"
The Crop Life(the crop science trade's umbrella group) link is good but the graph shows no such thing. The hockey stick shape of the graph starts in the mid eighties, 10 years before GMO seeds were available. Part of the reason for the spike is because of the pro-active approach Crop Life has taken in making sure cases of herbicide resistance are reported on and looked into.
There are a series of informative graphs and you will note that the majority of the cases of herbicide resistance have been found in the USA. The farmers stateside have been relying on glyphosate a bit too much. It's the cheapest herbicide available and the farm economy stateside has been suffering because of the high US dollar making US grain a tough sell internationally.