The Brilliant Inventor Who Made Two of History’s Biggest Mistakes

Re:The Brilliant Inventor Who Made Two of History’s Biggest ... by Weneedlead on Wednesday March 22, 2023 @10:08AM (#35261210)

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)

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Re:The Brilliant Inventor Who Made Two of History’s Biggest ... by JPws_Prntr_Fngr on Wednesday March 22, 2023 @10:24AM (#35261498)

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."

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Re:The Brilliant Inventor Who Made Two of History’s Biggest ... by Weneedlead on Wednesday March 22, 2023 @10:38AM (#35261733)

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.

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Re:The Brilliant Inventor Who Made Two of History’s Biggest ... by JPws_Prntr_Fngr on Wednesday March 22, 2023 @12:52PM (#35263827)

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

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