Lead responsible for violent crime?
Posted on: January 11, 2013 - 8:42am
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Lead responsible for violent crime?
http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2013/01/lead-crime-link-gasoline
New research finds Pb is the hidden villain behind violent crime, lower IQs, and even the ADHD epidemic. And fixing the problem is a lot cheaper than doing nothing.
My girlfriend is a Quantitative criminologist thinking about writing a paper on the sociological aspects of this correlation. It's an interesting finding, and one that, if true, could forecast much lower levels of violence in the future, as we reduce our exposure to lead. There's a 20 year gap in lead reduction and violent crime reduction, and the UK banned leaded fuel in 1996.. Meaning that in 2016 the impact should kick in. Fingers crossed.
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Interesting. I'd like to hear more...
So far from what I hear I'm willing to buy into it; try this video;
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c3eaG_PB5ZU
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Fascinating.
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Now the big question is will violent crimes go down if we remove more lead from the system?
Correlation /= causation. I am unconvinced. You might as well argue that increased use of Microsoft Windows leads to lower crime (or any of a million other things that have increased or decreased over the last 40 years.)
If, if a white man puts his arm around me voluntarily, that's brotherhood. But if you - if you hold a gun on him and make him embrace me and pretend to be friendly or brotherly toward me, then that's not brotherhood, that's hypocrisy.- Malcolm X
I agree correlation does not (always) equal causation...
usually because of an underlying cause of both. I find it difficult to imagine such a cause with two such disparate sets of data though.
This research is however interesting.