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"Death sentence" is an exaggeration, but accute and chronic lead poisoning are no joke: https://today.duke.edu/2022/03/lead-exposure-last-century-shrunk-iq-scor
by ekidd 3y ago
"Death sentence" is an exaggeration, but accute and chronic lead poisoning are no joke: https://today.duke.edu/2022/03/lead-exposure-last-century-shrunk-iq-scores-half-americans https://today.duke.edu/2022/03/lead-exposure-last-century-sh...
It causes long-term loss of IQ, and it is the main suspect for elevated crime levels in the lead-crime hypothesis: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lead%E2%80%93crime_hypothesis https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lead%E2%80%93crime_hypothesis
- Anotheroneagain 3y agoAnd for some reason we thrived poisoned and are failing lead free....
- hgomersall 3y agoArguably we're now seeing the political system controlled by geriatrics that grew up in the leaded fuel era.
- Anotheroneagain 3y agoNo, we see the consequences that it causes in young people: The loss of sense of priority, the loss of capacity for independent discovery and the judment of reasonableness, the disruption of normal thinking (leading to making things up, to outright paranoia and psychosis).
- constantly 3y ago[flagged]
- throwawaymaths 3y agoIn the pre leaded gas era, there were cane beatings on the floor of Congress!
- menacingly 3y agoIt's not an exaggeration, OP meant in the context of a knowledge economy. the IQ and crime issues you mention strongly support this statement.
- siftrics 3y agoWithout commenting on how likely it is the hypothesis is true, the lead-crime hypothesis has always been academic handwaving to make a different, political point.