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Kevin Drum has tracked this in detail. He wrote this in 2018: "It’s important to emphasize that the lead-crime hypothesis doesn’t claim that lead is solely res
by essayist 8y ago
Kevin Drum has tracked this in detail. He wrote this in 2018:
"It’s important to emphasize that the lead-crime hypothesis doesn’t claim that lead is solely responsible for crime. It primarily explains only one thing: the huge rise in crime of the 70s and 80s and the equally huge—and completely unexpected—decline in crime of the 90s and aughts."
https://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2018/02/an-updated-lead-crime-roundup-for-2018/ https://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2018/02/an-updated-le...
- NoodleIncident 8y agoMost of the article, but especially the section labeled "Pet Theories" reminds me a lot of this recent XKCD. In the Biffco timeline, everyone has an explanation for how things got as bad as they did, and none of them are a time traveling sports almanac. Seems to be the same way for lead poisoning, for some people at least. https://xkcd.com/2104/ https://xkcd.com/2104/
- rhizome 8y ago"How do you know you're not just a victim of unknowable facts?" is a bad argument.