It is so easy and convenient to blame some chemicals for all kinds of diseases/disorders! Alarmism and hysteria again! Of course the article is laced with several tragic reports of individuals (the old trick: emotions trump facts)!
How many demagogues have tried this kind of propaganda over the past 50 or more years? Too many! Here is another one! Yawn, yawn!
However, we have lived with those chemicals for a long time!
As the chart below indicates (see age >=70), the recent increase in Parkinson's cases has more to do with aging/longevity/longer life spans than to be caused by chemicals.
P.S. I am not saying that these chemicals are harmless!
"Once rare, Parkinson's disease is now the fastest growing neurodegenerative disease, with a new case diagnosed every 6 minutes in the US. Why? I argue that it's lax regulation of toxic chemicals, from pesticides to those used in dry cleaning [???]" (The author's X post)
Figure 1. Secular Trends in Incidence Rates (Period Effects). (Source)
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