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For context, leaded gasoline phase-out began in 1973, based on the 1970 Clean Air Act. It was largely gone in the US by the 80s but not officially eliminated (except for General Aviation) until 1996. Other countries continued to use leaded gasoline, largely in Africa and the Middle East; the UN started an effort in 2002 to eliminate it in those places still using it. In July 2021, the last stocks of leaded gasoline (…
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Yes, 2015 was about on par with 1967[1] in terms of property and violent crime. Incarceration is not what I was talking about. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crime_in_the_United_States#/me...
But you agree that it needs an explanation, right? You gloat about a dramatic decrease in crime, yet the number of inmates increased tenfold over that time period.
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> Experts suggest that lead paint is now one of the most important current and future sources of lead exposure, as well as the most tractable source to address. https://leadelimination.org/factfile/ Why is it so popular in the US? Is it better? Cheaper? I'm quite shocked to see it's still happening. Lead in pain has been forbidden for interiors in Germany since 1921 (exterior since 1989)...
It was banned in the US in 1978.
Black children had an adjusted 0.73 to 1.41 µg/dL more blood Pb (p https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7084658/
Is it certain that the Pb causes the lower IQ or maybe there is some other factor and poorer people happen to have higher concentration?
>A highly significant association was found between lead exposure and children's IQ (P https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/8162884/
That's a 1994 meta-study that turned up in 30 seconds of googling, and I'm sure more recent evidence also exists.
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I guess it's useful if your goal is to figure out how to divide kids into separate math classes. I don't think anyone intended ability to rotate blocks and scramble letters as a timeless gauge of the quality of a person.
Don’t conflate intelligence with quality or value. Every human being is inherently valuable independent of their intelligence, and there are plenty of other interesting features besides intelligence that make people unique and interesting. Believing that IQ measures something tangible is not equivalent to ranking people based on their value any more than believing height or weight measure something real.
Apparently, it's considered to be acceptable by current standards. Despite the fact that babies will obviously touch the bottle (and the paint) and then put their hands in their mouth. I bought glass bottles because I wanted to avoid plastic thinking it'd be safer and I was reassured by seeing that they were manufactured in Germany :(
I think we still have very far to go in terms of toxic substance exposure.
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It didn’t even stop then. My own city (Portland) has been regularly exceeding EPA lead action levels since 1998[1]. All they need to do is treat the water to raise ph like every other city with a large lead solder install base, but they’ve been dragging their feet for literally decades while the people they serve get lead exposure. 1: https://www.opb.org/article/2021/11/30/lead-portland-oregon-...
You mean the anti-fluoridation fanatics didn't know when to get off the train? (channeling Richard Pryor here)
Its one of the really bad part about many regions in Africa at the moment dealing with e-waste. https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2021/10/29/toxic-charge-h... Besides people melting lead batteries everywhere for recycling, much of the cooking dishes are made from recycled aluminum auto parts. Often laced with lead.