‘Parkinson’s is a man-made disease’ - Pesticides may be fueling a silent epidemic, warns Dutch neurologist Bas Bloem
‘Parkinson’s is a man-made disease’ - Pesticides may be fueling a silent epidemic, warns Dutch neurologist Bas Bloem
‘Parkinson’s is a man-made disease’: How a chemical Europe can’t quit may be driving the disease – POLITICO
There's a danger this headline is misleading. James Parkinson identified the disease over 200 years ago, so whatever it is can clearly happen without pesticides. Perhaps they make it more prevalent? But that's very different from saying that a recent invention makes a very old disease "man'made"
From the article:
Identification of Parkinson's disease coincides with the industrial revolution, so the claim is still plausible.
We've likely known about Parkinson's since the 12th century, just never named it as such. But it's very much possible that pollutants increase the risk.
Was my thought, too. Just the headline alone is inconsistent. "Man made epidemic" might have been better fitting.