Re:Lead: America's Real Criminal Element (2013)
by joe_the_user on Wednesday June 20, 2018 @01:41PM
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Yes, but that [changes in lead usage being correlated with socio-economic factors] would be more amazing than lead exposure explanation.
Not really, infrastructure changes of various sorts are often correlated with socio-economic factors. There's a reason Flint, MI's water system was wantonly destroyed and not that of a wealth Connecticut Suburb.
Not really, infrastructure changes of various sorts are often correlated with socio-economic factors. There's a reason Flint, MI's water system was wantonly destroyed and not that of a wealth Connecticut Suburb.
Anyway, there are still researchers doubting whether lead was the primary cause of the 80s-2000s rise and decline of violence. Just googling, see: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3829390/
But the main thing is single causes are hard in complex things like human society.