• br3d@lemmy.world
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    13 days ago

    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”

    • lemmyng@lemmy.ca
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      13 days ago

      From the article:

      a condition shaped less by genetics and more by prolonged exposure to toxicants like air pollution, industrial solvents and, above all, pesticides.

      Identification of Parkinson’s disease coincides with the industrial revolution, so the claim is still plausible.

    • CyberEgg@discuss.tchncs.de
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      13 days ago

      Was my thought, too. Just the headline alone is inconsistent. “Man made epidemic” might have been better fitting.