California jury says Bayer must pay $2B to couple in Roundup cancer trial
Trial by jury is so badly equipped to answer complicated questions like does Roundup/glyphosate cause cancer, and did it specifically cause this cancer.<p>Juries are equipped to answer whether a person not so different from the jurors is guilty of a crime not so far removed from the jurors' experience.  They are not equipped to resolve factual questions about things like this (or patent cases -- another crazy one we see on HN).<p>Jury == random number generator.  Maybe they get it right, but only by chance.