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Same issue as living near golf courses?

• DudeOpotomus 11mo ago
  Except the data doesnt back up that assertion. Golf course employees and golfers have no higher rates of than the public at large. So what gives? If the very people who spend most of their waking lives on the grounds and among those fertilizers and pesticides do not have any great instance, maybe just maybe its something else. Like the gallons of unregulated chemicals that are in those tract houses that were all built around the same time... one example is the drywall was used extensively in the 90's. Its makeup banned in the country of origin, China but its product was used all throughout the US for decades.
  • misja111 11mo ago
    Data does back up this assertion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43933580 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43933580 The correlation seems to point to usage ground water that is contaminated with pesticides. So people living close to the golf courses have higher Parkinson risk. Probably golfers and employees less so.
    • DudeOpotomus 11mo ago
      There is no causation. Your bias is showing. What else uses massive amounts of pesticides and herbicides and is consumed by people every day?
• francisofascii 11mo ago
  I know a guy who had a weird habit of using his mouth to clean his golf ball. He eventually got oral cancer.