But what about the more aggressive, new strain of TSE – the massive epidemic of BSE/vCJD that suddenly blighted the UK’s young cattle and human population post November 1986? Did this big time epidemic result from an overexposure to the artificial sources of the eco-prerequisites that we are talking about here?

In this respect, it seems likely that the UK’s BSE and vCJD epidemics were caused by the simultaneous exposure of cattle, cats, humans and zoo animals to a toxic combination of factors - the widely used copper-chelating organo dithiophosphate (OP) insecticides (35) and the fall out of radioactive metals from the Chernobyl eruption (20).

During the 1980s British cattle herds and humans were exposed to exclusively high doses of these insecticides for warble fly and head lice control respectively (42), whereupon the prion proteins of the OP treated animals were starved of their copper co partners (35). This rendered the prion protein vulnerable to binding up with certain rogue replacement metals, such as the radioactive strontium 90, which were rained down at high concentrations onto the soils of NW Europe after the Chernobyl accident (20) – the precise region that later became the world’s most intensive hotspot of BSE.

The developed nations are only too keen to brandish the rogue states as irresponsible for their clandestine development of nuclear and chemical weapons. But they are not so keen to open the secret pages of their toxic history books when it comes to answering their own public’s demands for data that may help them understand the true causes of their ill health.

A substantial number of helpless human and animal populations were deliberately subjected to high doses of radioactivity without their knowledge or consent. The all too powerful politicians and scientific institutions who enacted these atrocities have made damn certain that they can never be brought to account.

The only difference between the positions of the developed vis-à-vis the undeveloped nations regarding their handling of weapons of mass destruction, is that the less sophisticated rogue states have not yet developed a sufficiently watertight infrastructure of secrecy and mass media spin to keep their various acts of human and ecological barbarism under wraps. On the other hand, the developed nations have successfully suppressed their shameful track record; and in so doing they have committed further crime against humanity by deliberately duping their populations with disinformation – a bibliography of bogus science that has successfully misappropriated the cause of so many pollutant induced modern day ailments onto an assortment of genetic weaknesses, viruses, naturally occurring toxins, or – as in the case of BSE - the sheep scrapie agent.

It seems that governments and corporations are deliberately conjuring up and capitalising upon this phenomena of ‘natural’ scapegoats’ for their own self protection. It guarantees them a foolproof exemption from the flood of compensation claims that could pop up if the catalogue of ill health effects resulting from their bygone atomic antics and compulsory pesticide policies were ever allowed to see the light of day.

The wasting lands

If the western governments had permitted the toxic secrets of their atomic backwaters to permeate the public domain, then we might be a lot further forward in understanding the true causes of these neuro-degenerative conditions today.  If you can understand the cause of a disease, then you are better equipped to work out the best means of curing, controlling or preventing that disease - a cache of knowledge that would prove extremely beneficial in the current world where neuro-degenerative disorders are beginning to reach epidemic proportions.