A Reuters reporter uncovered how a man's political agenda caused glyphosate, the primary ingredient in Roundup, to be labelled a possible carcinogen by the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), triggering a wave of lawsuits against Monsanto and now Bayer. Despite numerous scientific findings and studies showing glyphosate to be non-carcinogenic, this man was able to get the data excluded from the IARC study.