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”
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.
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.
Even at that time humans were exposed to pollution. Thinking of charcoal burner, miners, blacksmiths, dyer, and some others.
It was found that even the Romans were exposed to lead in the air that coming from mining.
Was my thought, too. Just the headline alone is inconsistent. “Man made epidemic” might have been better fitting.