• @[email protected]
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    101 day ago

    Leaded gasoline was legal until the early 90s. More and more data seem to point to this behind the cause of many mental disorders

    • @[email protected]
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      51 day ago

      Gen X got the brunt of that though not millennials. They started phasing out lead in 1973. Autism isn’t a mental disorder and not one linked to lead exposure afaik

    • @Hikermick
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      11 day ago

      Lead was phased out long before then. A steady decline in crime has been attributed to it’s removal. Not just in the US but in other countries also

      • @Buddahriffic
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        01 day ago

        They might be thinking of nuclear bomb testing that went into the 90s. I wouldn’t be surprised if that was associated with various health issues, too.

        • @Hikermick
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          322 hours ago

          No I googled it, they’re correct. Lead in gas was outlawed in the 90’ but they started phasing it out starting in the 70’s. I started driving in '84 and don’t recall ever having a choice but my memory is fallible