Summary of Cancer Data – WSJ

A Californian jury awarded a couple on Monday to say that Bayer AG's Rounder plant killer has caused cancer. But would the judgment have been different if the judge had allowed the jury to see contradictory evidence?

This is the question that Bayer will raise in his appeal with Judge Winifred Smith, who presided over the case. The judge of the Superior Court of Alameda County rejected the request of Bayer's lawyers to inform the jury that the Environmental Protection Agency had concluded last month that the …