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Widely used chemical strongly linked to Parkinson’s disease

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Re: Widely used chemical strongly linked to Parkinson’s disease

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Smells like fodder for a lawsuit that benefits nobody but lawyers and bureaucrats. Frankly, there’s nobody in the system who has any incentive to defend the taxpayers against these things. Imagine what it would be like if they could sue any organization for any disease prevalence that popped hot on a t-test for any period of time. And they had access to everybody’s medical records to do that. And the organization doesn’t even have to pay. It’s a nonprofit, and the people that have to pay are the original donors, again. But these weren’t willing donors; they were forced to ‘donate’ by people with guns. Oh, and they were also forced to pay for the study that is now forcing them to pay again for the result and of course more studies.

Torts against the government are a funny thing. It requires anti-government attitude to suggest that the government is incompetent, harmful, or criminal, but the solution is always more programs, more taxes, more laws, more bureaucracy. Oh and the ‘victims’? They will sign on expecting a huge payout, claim all kinds of problems, and end up with $0 and a weekly appointment with a VA occupational therapist. If they happen to have a problem that can actually be solved, too bad, no funding.

Re: Widely used chemical strongly linked to Parkinson’s disease

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I'm very curious about SWP. How does it taste compared to good light roasted single origins?

I am very sensitive to caffeine and recently switched to decaf only after drinking coffee daily for 20+ years. I drink mainly Mountain Water Processed coffee, which is the same thing but from coffee sourced in South America. It is roasted by a local roaster in Minneapolis. I honestly can't tell the difference between the decaf and regular (except for the lack of caffeine). Also, SWP or MWP coffee removes nearly all c…

Which Minneapolis roaster? I'm local

Re: Widely used chemical strongly linked to Parkinson’s disease

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Widely used chemical *(that was generally phased out in the 70s) linked to Parkinson's. Still important, but you don't need to start searching product labels in 2023 for it.

TCE is present at Lowry in Denver, an old air force base that is now a huge development of multi-million dollar homes and townhomes. This article is from 2000, before the housing development began. People knew TCE was there but the housing development happened anyway https://extras.denverpost.com/news/news1126.htm It’s also at Stapleton, another huge residential area, and previously Denver’s primary airport: “At the…

Just another thing on the list of reasons I'm moving far away!

Re: Widely used chemical strongly linked to Parkinson’s disease

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> It never made sense to me to use hydrocarbon solvents in a food application I get your point, but isn't this kind of a broad statement? After all, ethanol is a hydrocarbon solvent, and it's been used in food applications for a long time.

Ethanol is also a horrible toxin, it just happens to be common enough in nature that our bodies, and animal bodies as well, have had hundreds of thousands of years to evolve some mitigations against.

Interestingly -- when it comes to toxicology it is not the substance that determines the poison but the dose. Water is still a toxin, we just have evolved ways to handle up to a certain amount of water per day before water poisoning takes hold. Everything is a toxin, we just have it in our bodies to handle some of it.

Re: Widely used chemical strongly linked to Parkinson’s disease

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This title is click bait. You could easily just include the name of the "widely used chemical" in the title.

Sure, it is trichloroethylene, but that would lose 99% of the audience as soon as they see a word that they can't pronounce. Widely used is accurate, it is everywhere.

They'll see it right away once they get into the article, and will presumably nope out of there anyway. So why not put it in the headline? Oh, yeah, advertising. Thus, clickbait.

Re: Widely used chemical strongly linked to Parkinson’s disease

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This is to some degree reassuring; as the chemical was phased out in the 1970s, maybe it means Parkinson's rates among people who are middle aged or younger today, and thus much less likely to have been exposed, will be lower than boomer+ rates.

It was phased out of wider non industrial uses like anesthesia(!) and decaffeinating coffee. It is still used as degreaser.

Re: Widely used chemical strongly linked to Parkinson’s disease

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If you have the name you can start searching for things that has it right away.

Wouldn’t the logical place to start your research be the article itself so you know the context?

Not for me.
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