An activist environmental group hand picks counties where it thinks cancer rates should be higher than average and reports that 60% of those counties have higher rates (leaving unsaid that 40% have lower rates). There appears to be no mention of how the study related any of the cancer patients to agricultural employment or how it ruled out other carcinogens.
gaslight away! the Iowans aren’t buying it.
There are a lot of old people there, but high rates of Hodgkin’s lymphoma shouldn’t be related to farming unless there’s a cause.
However, this study just counts all cancers, which is expected for an older population. 1/3 cancer, 1/3 strokes, 1/3 heart disease.