I feel like there should be laws deterring these kinds of lawsuits. E.g., laying out good faith scientific practices and appropriate procedures for dealing with scientific fraud that could be considered libelous.
If you actually read the internal documents that were presented in the case (https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/johnsona...), I don't actually think they are the smoking gun they were touted as. They threw out some outlier tests and then had an internal war with their marketing department about how to disclose trace amounts.
Reminds me of how Dupont put Teflon in cigarettes and handed them out to their own employees to smoke: https://www.ewg.org/research/dupont-workers-smoke-teflon-lac...
