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Originally Posted by reverett123
1- As to the portrayal of James Parkinson as a simple isolated soul with a small pool of patients:
http://pds.live.poptech.coop/Templat...p?NodeID=98698
2- As to the portrayal of Shoreditch as a suburb of Oz:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shoreditch
3- As to the refusal to talk about particulates as a whole and the attempt to limit the discussion to coal alone, those are the tactics of one who has no argument to offer/
With that, I leave this particular stage to the noble *******.  |
Rick, you claimed that James Parkinson could only find a handful of people with PD in a big city such as London, but his observations were only made in little visited Shoreditch. I never suggested he was a simple isolated sole. I pointed out that his PD observations were made in a small area. Judging from the amount of people with PD he saw in such a small location, there must have been a lot of people in London with Parkinson's Disease.
The Shoreditch link correctly states that Shoreditch is in the London Borough of Hackney. On the map it might look like the hub of Central London to you, but to us Londoners that have actually been there it certainly isn't. Nobody goes to Hackney unless they have to. I asked other Londoners if they have ever been to Shoreditch. "No" or "Where's Shoreditch ?" were the responses.
Up until the 1960's there were thick smogs in London that were so bad that you couldn't see five yards in front of you. It wasn't just coal fire use that declined in the 1970's. Air pollution as a whole was massively reduced due to the widespread illness it was causing. Since joining the bureaucratic EU, air pollution levels have since then reduced even further. Yet, Parkinson's Disease prevalence has just kept on rising.
This plainly contradicts the theory that Parkinson's Disease is primarily due to air pollution, as do the prevalence studies in other countries, which simply do not coincide with the theory.
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