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Fair warning, this is a bit of a comment trap, insofar as the post is less about lead per se, and more about a class of decision-making problems involving the a
by brownbat 8y ago
Fair warning, this is a bit of a comment trap, insofar as the post is less about lead per se, and more about a class of decision-making problems involving the allocation of scarce resources and massive uncertainty.
But incidentally, public health and governing bodies should definitely work to reduce lead in communities, regardless of the duty of psychiatrists.
And maybe some researcher should improve chelation? But there are other things to work on, and that might be simply intractable, so maybe not.
- koboll 8y agoIt would be nice if HN had an all-around light moderation policy, with the sole exception that commenters who clearly haven't read the article and are debating with the title be barred from commenting for a certain period of time.
- criddell 8y agoWhenever I see a title that's posing a question, I like to immediately assume the answer is "no". It makes the headline seem pretty ridiculous.
- severine 8y agoBetteridge's law of headlines: Betteridge's law of headlines is an adage that states: "Any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no." It is named after Ian Betteridge, a British technology journalist, although the principle is much older. As with similar "laws", it is intended to be humorous rather than the literal truth.