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certainly not. It hasnt been banned everywhere in the world at the same time yet crimes rates have been declining pretty much worldwide.


That's the point. It has been correlated with same delay between tipping point of lead in air and tipping point of crime in each country, even though in each country the tipping points were at different time.


Almost certainly so. I'm really interested in knowing why you're so positive in saying it's not. There are significant signs that the reduction of lead emissions leads to a time-delayed reduction in crime when geographically mapped: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S001393511... https://ehjournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12940-...




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