Scientologist lawyers key drivers of glyphosate class action suits

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Scientologist lawyers key drivers of glyphosate class action suits

I say "Scientologist lawyers" because I believe that the headline of the story below is misleading.

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Genetic Literacy Project: Church of Scientology key driver of glyphosate class action suits

October 7, 2021


Church of Scientology key driver of glyphosate class action suits


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If it is now established that there would never have been a “glyphosate” case without the decisive impetus given by some large American law firms, we know much less, on the other hand, of the involvement of certain members of the Church of Scientology in this matter.

However, as the Genetic Literacy Project news site revealed in an article published last June, one of the firms most involved in the Roundup lawsuits – Baum, Hedlund, Aristei & Goldman – was founded by lawyers who are members of the Church of Scientology. Michael L. Baum, its founder, and one of its partners, Brent Wisner, have in fact been active members of the sect, for fifty years for the first and thirty for the second
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Troubling, when we know that his office played an essential role in the staging of the famous “Monsanto Papers.” In particular by disseminating on its website documents supposed to demonstrate that the herbicide would “have an impact on the public health of people.”

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