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America's Real Criminal Element Is Lead
Reposted by Mike Masnick
https://bsky.app/profile/mmasnick.bsky.social
Clara Jeffery
@clarajeffery.bsky.social
Kevin Drum was the first journalist to really get into the ties between lead and crime rates (not just serial killers) and I think it is one of the most important articles we’ve ever done
https://www.motherjones.com/environment/2016/02/lead-exposure-gasoline-crime-increase-children-health/
America's Real Criminal Element Is Lead
The hidden villain behind violent crime, lower IQs, and the maybe even the ADHD epidemic.
www.motherjones.com
The New Yorker
@newyorker.com
· 1h
What might account for the abrupt rise and equally abrupt fall, between the 1960s and the turn of the century, of the “golden age” of serial killing? And why were so many of these brutes from the area around Seattle’s Puget Sound? nnewyorkermag.visitlink.me/GM5SKR
3:04 PM · Jan 1, 2026
@clarajeffery.bsky.social
Kevin Drum was the first journalist to really get into the ties between lead and crime rates (not just serial killers) and I think it is one of the most important articles we’ve ever done
https://www.motherjones.com/environment/2016/02/lead-exposure-gasoline-crime-increase-children-health/
America's Real Criminal Element Is Lead
The hidden villain behind violent crime, lower IQs, and the maybe even the ADHD epidemic.
www.motherjones.com
The New Yorker
@newyorker.com
· 1h
What might account for the abrupt rise and equally abrupt fall, between the 1960s and the turn of the century, of the “golden age” of serial killing? And why were so many of these brutes from the area around Seattle’s Puget Sound? nnewyorkermag.visitlink.me/GM5SKR
3:04 PM · Jan 1, 2026
Kevin Drum was the first journalist to really get into the ties between lead and crime rates (not just serial killers) and I think it is one of the most important articles we’ve ever done www.motherjones.com/environment/...
— Clara Jeffery (@clarajeffery.bsky.social) 2026-01-01T20:04:42.889Z