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DudeOpotomusyesterday at 5:03 PM1 replyview on HN

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.


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misja111yesterday at 6:46 PM

Data does back up this assertion: 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.