re: #196 Four More Tears

This is… interesting.

Crime Is at its Lowest Level in 50 Years. A Simple Molecule May Be the Reason Why.

From the article:

A second study found that high exposure to lead during childhood was linked to a permanent loss of gray matter in the prefrontal cortex—a part of the brain associated with aggression control as well as what psychologists call “executive functions”: emotional regulation, impulse control, attention, verbal reasoning, and mental flexibility. One way to understand this, says Kim Cecil, another member of the Cincinnati team, is that lead affects precisely the areas of the brain “that make us most human.”

I conclude House republicans must have been exposed to staggering amounts.