Parkinson’s: The Pesticide Link
Tuesday, August 18th, 2009
Parkinson’s: The Pesticide Link
Taken together, 30-plus years of research add up to an increasingly persuasive conclusion: exposure to pesticides and other toxins increases the risk of Parkinson’s disease, and we are only now beginning to wrestle with the true scope of the damage.
[via kottke.org]
This is so sad and alarming, but no alarm bells are ringing even under Obama. We have become such victims of business as to chalk it up to a statistical return on investment: only a certain number of casualties with come from the “benefit” of pesticides. It has worsened under ever Republican administration, but it is now totally a back-burner issue. Shame on this nation.
Amen Scott. There are related issues with ADD and autism but I’m not confident that even if we knew the truth we’d do much about it. We are a nation on the way down, unfortunately.