The more interesting part that people panicked that lead makes them have fewer children a century ago, not over its neurotoxicity. That was not yet "known".

Another interesting part:] >In Venezuela, where the state oil company sold only leaded gasoline until 1999, a recent report found 63 percent of newborn children with blood-lead levels in excess of the so-called safe levels promulgated by the US government.

And as of 2008, there were virtually no nearsighted people in Venezuela.

A gimmick account dedicated to lead advocacy. Interesting. Could you source any scientific papers (or even a schizo blog post!) we could read through? Because your Venezuelan eyesight anecdote is not very convincing.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/18481484/ (now I looked again, it's actually an old study from 1986 that they cite, they already do show rising rates esp. in males)

https://iovs.arvojournals.org/article.aspx?articleid=2124447

https://www.bijojournal.org/article.asp?issn=1858-6538;year=... (recalculate percentages)

I don't follow. #2 is on nicotine exposure, and #3 concluded lead exposure is bad.

"Conclusion: Lead poison has a great effect on vision and eye health of the workers, its lead to decrease of vision result in development amblyopia, it also has influence on ocular media and causes severe allergic reaction Thus, all the workers in this field should wear the protection tools provided in the factory, and there is a critical need for examining their ocular health annually."

Tobacco smoke contains heavy metals, smoking rises lead levels. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/322790056_Blood_Lea...

11 out of the 76 short term exposed workers had myopia, while 10 out of 124 long term exposed workers had myopia, which is much less.

Uh huh. I think I'll let the Sudanese researchers run the lead ingestion trials on themselves first and wait it out.

> which Midgely happily participated in

Which moves him from the category of buffoon to evil.