• AlternatePersonMan@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    The theory is that lead is extremely bad for developing minds. Hence the roughly 20 year offset. Kids exposed to it grew up to be a little nastier. Fully formed minds aren’t as susceptible.

    Again, I’m not an expert, but I’d be shocked if breathing in lead wasn’t really really bad.

    • Windex007@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      Lead is really bad for you.

      But you’ve now made the leap from correlation to causation on what was already an incredibly shaky premise.

      They are distinct concepts. We can agree that lead is bad for you without trying to bring murder rates into it.