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And this is why juries don't work. It is probably banging my head against a brick wall, but seriously whole generations had lead based paint and lead products.

And this is why juries don't work. It is probably banging my head against a brick wall, but seriously whole generations had lead based paint and lead products. Rich and poor. It's even in the water supply - http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/medical_examiner/2004/05/heavy_metal.html http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/medical_exa... But these people with lawsuits had these enormous effects only thanks to lead, right. Even the whole lead in petrol thing is up in the air, we are not sure if it has made a difference. These issues are around poverty, not magical beans like evil 'lead'.

mirimir 11y ago
The "magical bean" for lead paint is poor maintenance. There's also the perverse fact that flakes of old lead paint are sweet. So kids suck on them like candy. Especially if they're hungry. I do agree that poverty makes it worse.
DanBC 11y ago
> Even the whole lead in petrol thing is up in the air, we are not sure if it has made a difference No, that's wrong. We know lead in petrol was very harmful to a lot of people. The thing that is "up in the air" is whether lead in petrol was responsible for increased crime rates, especially increased violent crime rate; and whether removing lead feom petrol was responsible for the reduction in crime rates. It's not an outlandish bizarre hypothesis because we know how harmful lead in atmosphere is.