ApocaDocs: Lead Exposure in Childhood Linked to Criminal Behavior Later

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Posted Fri May 30 2008: from Washington Post (US):


	Lead Exposure in Childhood Linked to Criminal Behavior Later http://apocadocs.com/s.pl?1212182434 A study in the May 27 issue of PLoS Medicine is the first empirical evidence that elevated blood lead levels, both in the pregnant mother and in the child, are associated with criminal behavior in young adulthood. "I never would have thought that we would be seeing these effects into the later 20s," said study co-author Kim Dietrich, a professor of environmental health at the University of Cincinnati. "I'm actually quite astounded and quite worried about this. Although lead levels have been going down in this country, a large proportion of the population now in their 20s and 30s had blood levels in this neurotoxic range."

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I wonder what other heavy metals might do -- mercury, cadmium, and the like.
Y'know, the stuff we spew out of coal-fired power plants all day long.

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