Yves here. This second post this week on the Bayer effort to minimize damage from its Roundup/glyphosate lawsuits is warranted by the out-of-character-for-a-Federal-judge ferocity in response to a proposed settlement of 60,000 cases consolidated in the Northern District of California in a multi-district action. This is a pass-the-popcorn sort of piece, so enjoy! Note that even though the judge in question, Vince Chhabria, said he can’t remedy the problems with this proposed deal, his damning remarks would seem to make it easy to appeal of Bayer does not roll back the process so as to take proper procedural steps. By Carey Gillam, the editor-in-chief of The New Lede whose experience includes 17 years as a senior correspondent with Reuters international news service (1998-2015). She is the author of “Whitewash – The Story of a Weed Killer, Cancer and the Corruption of Science,” an expose of Monsanto’s corporate corruption of agriculture.…