Europe’s flawed oversight of pesticides may be fueling a silent epidemic, warns Dutch neurologist Bas Bloem. His fight for reform pits him against industry, regulators — and time.
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”
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.
Was my thought, too. Just the headline alone is inconsistent. “Man made epidemic” might have been better fitting.