Lead poisoning costs world’s children 765 million IQ points a year: Study

https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/4962349-low-level-lead-poisoning-pervasive-health-impacts-study/amp/

by Snarl_Marx

12 comments
  1. This is pretty well-known, but a great time to release this study as it bolsters EPA’s new, much more restrictive lead-based paint clearance levels.

  2. Stats like this are useless.

    There are 2.2 billion children world wide. 

    765M IQ points/2200 M children, is roughly 0.3 IQ points per child.

    It’s tiny but equally useless as the issue is likely more so that a number of children have large deficits even though most have little

    Better stats would be number with say >10 point losses.

  3. Even mild or asymptomatic Covid infections cost an average of 3 IQ points per infection. One out of 9 people who are hospitalized for Covid lose 30 IQ points. The average American is believed to have had 3+ infections already and something like 99.4% of the total population is believed to have had at least one infection so far. It’s not sustainable but there doesn’t seem to be any political or social will to do anything about it.

    Lead is bad too.

  4. Exhibit A: the US baby boom generation, poisoned as children by leaded gasoline fumes, and now voting stupidly.

  5. Between that and micro plastics.. i guess it’s not surprising there’s a cult of morons following a deranged old man..

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