Or... Parkinson's disease primarily effects old people and old people are much more likely to live close to golf courses (i.e. retirement villages).
We were contacted by a golf community
What is a "golf community"? That's going to be a golf course surrounded by houses that are bought primarily by retirees who enjoy playing golf.
Well, that and all of the chemicals they use to keep the weeds down and maintain the place. They use a LOT.
They do. But if the weed killers were causative, you would also expect to see a significant increase in Parkinson's in people who come into regular contact with those chemicals. e.g. groundskeepers, farmers, municipal maintenance workers, etc.
Not saying that there isn't a correlation, or that those chemicals do not cause significant health issues (I personally avoid them almost entirely, growing my vegetables without any pesticides), but studies into these issues need to account for confounding factors, otherwise they risk misinterpreting the raw data.
The inability to consider or account for confounding variables seems to be a common theme in "modern science", where it appears that the researchers often decide the conclusion that they want to get and then torture the data until something that can be said to support that pre-defined conclusion can be "found".
There have been huge studies and massive lawsuits about farm hands developing parkinsons after a few years of working with those chemicals. Ill look for some of the articles/studies later and post them.
There is a ton of evidence that even short term exposure (for some more than others) is extremely bad for you.
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