Legal causation isn’t scientific proof: Roundup ruling underscores the law–science divide

Supreme Court’s Monsanto v. Durnell ruling concerns federal pesticide labeling preemption, not whether glyphosate causes cancer. The piece argues that legal causation and scientific causation answer different questions, urging clearer categorization of causal questions in court and reporting, and highlighting Roundup, talc, asbestos, and social-media cases to show how legal outcomes can be misinterpreted as scientific proof.