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Re:Rates of Parkinson’s disease are exploding. A common chem... by yabones on Thursday April 08, 2021 @01:46PM (#26741664)
PFAS is going to be the asbestos of our generation, except it won't be so easy to get rid of this time around. It's more like the asbestos of every future generation until we find a way to reliably break it down.
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Re:Rates of Parkinson’s disease are exploding. A common chem... by Layke1123 on Thursday April 08, 2021 @04:47PM (#26743559)
That or it will be a natural form of selection for old age, increasing human longevity at the expense of temporary population reduction. Let's hope artificial gene therapy is within our lifetimes or hope we drew the golden ticket.
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Re:Rates of Parkinson’s disease are exploding. A common chem... by 542354234235 on Friday April 09, 2021 @10:04AM (#26750734)
If you have already had children and raised them to adulthood (Alzheimer’s first appears primarily in your mid 60s or later), what exactly is the selective pressure mechanism?
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Re:Rates of Parkinson’s disease are exploding. A common chem... by Layke1123 on Friday April 09, 2021 @01:30PM (#26753415)
Genetic sequencing. We will eliminate the embryos we don't want.
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Re:Rates of Parkinson’s disease are exploding. A common chem... by 542354234235 on Friday April 09, 2021 @01:43PM (#26753589)
>it will be a natural form of selection for old age, increasing human longevity

I don't think genetic sequencing falls into the category of "natural selection".

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Re:Rates of Parkinson’s disease are exploding. A common chem... by Layke1123 on Saturday April 10, 2021 @12:41PM (#26762786)
Ok people not wanting to have kids because of a family history of Parkinson's disease.
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