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I don't know that anyone is asserting lead is the only culprit; socioeconomic trends are complex beasts.

To reject it entirely however flies in the face of a significant body of evidence: http://m.motherjones.com/environment/2016/02/lead-exposure-g...

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This is insane. It's like saying Roman soldiers fought well because they drank wine out of lead flasks..

I'd be extremely careful not to conflate the two because there's no causation explained by simply showing a graph.

Crime is a very complicated human behavior that arises from multitude of socioeconomic reasons: no money, no education, no opportunity, crime happens.

I find your emotional reactions to this puzzling. Is your last name perchance Midgley?

no but I spent a lot of time studying this research when I was getting my econ degree and it made perfect sense to me. That might explain my emotional attachment to this theory, coupled with my sympathy towards African Americans downtrodden by institutional racism hidden in plain sight.

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