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Without wanting to sound too snarky, wasn't this already pretty well-established knowledge? [0]

Imho one of the more infamous and recent examples of human hubris. Who knows what we are downplaying right now, that might end up really messing us up in another couple of decades? Only time will tell.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetraethyllead#Controversy_and...

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I thought so, and I wish it were. But look at the threads here, and everyone who feels that they can just say "crack epidemic" and believe it is providing the same insight into the situation as scientific study.

That is poisons people is well-established knowledge. That it affects brain function, as well.

It's the correlation with crime specifically that is the interesting part.

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