Who's To Blame?
Movers and Shakers: a podcast about life with Parkinson's
Podot
4.7 • 970 Ratings
🗓️ 5 October 2024
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
Were it not for the eventual verdict of the Court of Appeal, Holmes vs Poeton may well have been a landmark case for Parkies. Or so claims the (ex) Judge, Nicholas Mostyn, who serves as the guide in today's episode, where the Movers & Shakers look into some thorny questions: what causes Parkinson's? And who, if anyone, is to blame? Our guide is Professor Yoav Ben-Shlomo from the University of Bristol, who dissects the evidence – from controversial twin studies to a contaminated Marine encampment – and delivers his verdict on the balance of probability.
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Presented by Rory Cellan-Jones, Gillian Lacey-Solymar, Mark Mardell, Paul Mayhew-Archer, Sir Nicholas Mostyn and Jeremy Paxman.
Produced and edited by Nick Hilton for Podot.
Sound mixing by Ewan Cameron.
Music by Alex Stobbs.
Artwork by Till Lukat.
PR by Sally Jones.
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| 0:00.0 | Podo. You are listening to Movers and Shakers, a podcast about Living with Parkinson's. |
| 0:15.7 | This episode is generously sponsored by Purdy and Fig. |
| 0:18.9 | Their award-winning, best-selling natural cleaning spray counter-clean is made with 100% pure essential oils. |
| 0:25.6 | It is designed to work on every surface in your home, leaving a fabulous smell. |
| 0:32.4 | Hello and welcome to another episode of Movers and Shakers. Now let's see who's here. |
| 0:37.0 | Who are you by the way? I'll say at the end. |
| 0:39.0 | Rory Kethlin Jones. |
| 0:42.0 | I've never seen this bloop before. Rory, Poor may you watch her, no one little. |
| 0:53.7 | And I'm Nicholas Morrison. |
| 0:55.2 | And me? |
| 0:56.2 | Oh your day, Dan, and... |
| 0:58.2 | I'm sitting almost under the table, but I'm still here. |
| 1:01.2 | She's sitting on the floor. |
| 1:02.0 | She's in the pub and she's on the floor. |
| 1:04.0 | What more do we eat? |
| 1:05.0 | That was a good start. |
| 1:06.0 | So today we're going to return to that fundamental question, |
| 1:09.0 | what causes Parkinson's disease? |
| 1:12.0 | Now, listeners may remember that back in July |
| 1:14.3 | 2023 some of us were at the World Congress in Barcelona I think you were there |
| 1:18.4 | already I was Jillian you were there you were indeed and you Jillian do you remember talking to Dr Ray Dorsey at the University of Rochester I certainly do yes he is a very strong advocate of the theory that exposure to external agents such as trichloroethylene or |
| 1:35.8 | TCE or Paraquat which is a weak killer is the likely cause of Parkinson's in most cases. |
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