Inuit in northern Canada have a high rate of PD. And a low rate of heart disease, even those who traditionally lived on meat and fat and fish, with no fibre, no grain, no vegetables and no fruit.

All of this is madness. They bring out these maps showing that one place has 12 times more PD than another place, but the research money goes to finding a new flavour of agonists or new packaging for sinemet. I repeat again: I am waiting for the cherry-flavored sinemet in bubble-gum format, with those coupons you can collect to get free gifts and neat stuff.

Is there an epidemiologist in the house? A medical detective to unravel the mystery? Like Dr. Irving Selikof, who was a simple GP in a small town when he tracked down the reason so many of his patients had forms of cancer such as mesothelioma. He tracked it down: asbestos. He went on to become a top researcher at Mt. Sinai hospital in New York. But when he made the discovery, that resulted in asbestos being outlawed around the world, he was a simple family doctor in Patterson, New Jersey. He paid attention to his patients and, single handed, found the link with asbestos, and then used maps such as these to hunt down every source of asbestos blowing in the wind.
Epidemiologists have a different set of skills; they hunt down links; it's not the same gang as the pill designers. Those maps go way beyond co-incidence. Is there any medical curiosity left out there at all? Are there any epi - experts taking this on?