Prison Rates Are Down. Thanks to Lead, They’re Going to Stay Down.
We’re safer because we’re no longer poisoning our children in ways that turn them into hair-trigger thugs.
The less lead/less crime argument is something of a hobby horse for Drum but it is somewhat compelling. He doesn’t insist the link is causal but there does seem to be strong correlation.
Am I remembering wrong that there was something about this in Neil Degrasse Tyson’s Cosmos?
Anybody know if there is any strong evidence out there to back up this idea?
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