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Serial Killers Have Rapidly Declined Since The 1980s
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I’m always glad to hear more people know about lead poisoning. It makes a lot of sense.
I’m curious, you got anything light reading you can recommend to ease into the topic, please pm me. I’d appreciate, if it wasn’t another post which basically recites the content of another post, and so on - far too much out there these days)
No. It’s not possible to find light reading about lead.
Badum Tss
Mythbusters disagrees
It’s called The Lead-Crime Hypothesis, and you can find vetted info on it, here (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lead%E2%80%93crime_hypothesis?wprov=sfti1).
Here’s a recent meta-analysis: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0166046222000667
Society has not yet realized how important it is to clean up this issue. But we’re getting there.
If you're talking about removing lead from our society, it seems the progress made over the past 40 years has been incredibly dramatic
If you have 15 minutes this Veritasium is well done and explains the history that led to the problem.
https://youtu.be/IV3dnLzthDA?si=96jrGM0juzEDGUvb
Here are a few. Most people think it’s just in the water or lead paint. This first link is about the air.
https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/lead-gasoline-blunted-iq-half-us-population-study-rcna19028
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/jan/07/violent-crime-lead-poisoning-british-export
https://www.bbc.com/news/health-20961241
https://www.statesman.com/story/news/2021/07/18/ut-study-kids-exposed-lead-can-become-mean-cranky-adults/7985130002/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6068756/
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/dec/08/lead-poisoning-crisis-us-children
If you've got Disney+ Cosmos has an entire episode about the history of the discovery of how bad leaded gasoline was