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0x00_NULL | 2 years ago

What is this nonsense? This whole news article doesn’t even link to the study. So ridiculous. That’s gotta break some journalism rule of some sort.

It might be this one: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35254913/

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defrost|2 years ago

March 7, 2022 - Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Half of US population exposed to adverse lead levels in early childhood

https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2118631119

Choice Quote:

    Significance

    We estimate population-level effects on IQ loss and find that lead is responsible for the loss of 824,097,690 IQ points as of 2015.

( The link given here on HN is to an NBC news article from March 8, 2022, about that PNAS publication. )

wrycoder|2 years ago

"The average lead-linked loss in cognitive ability was 2.6 IQ points per person as of 2015."