> I guess i would say it doesn’t really matter how it happened. Maybe not on an individual level, but if it was (for example) the salmon near the factory then

> I guess i would say it doesn’t really matter how it happened. Maybe not on an individual level, but if it was (for example) the salmon near the factory then that might affect thousands of people and it would be important to stop this at the source. Tangentially related: I recently learned from a YT interview with James Burke that modern epidemiology was born when John Snow identified the true cause of the 1854 Broad Street cholera outbreak using statistics and an accidental double-blind experiment set-up[0][1]. So I do understand Fox' bewilderment that five people from the same set developing Parkinson's disease is not considered worthy of follow-up research. [0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mUb6Sv-rUv0&t=13m23s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mUb6Sv-rUv0&t=13m23s [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1854_Broad_Street_cholera_outbreak https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1854_Broad_Street_cholera_outb...