Serial Killers Have Rapidly Declined Since The 1980s

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Serial Killers Have Rapidly Declined Since The 1980s
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I’m curious, you got anything light reading you can recommend to ease into the topic, please pm me. I’d appreciate, if it wasn’t another post which basically recites the content of another post, and so on - far too much out there these days)

It’s called The Lead-Crime Hypothesis, and you can find vetted info on it, here (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lead%E2%80%93crime_hypothesis?wprov=sfti1).

Here’s a recent meta-analysis: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0166046222000667

Society has not yet realized how important it is to clean up this issue. But we’re getting there.

Society has not yet realized how important it is to clean up this issue.

If you're talking about removing lead from our society, it seems the progress made over the past 40 years has been incredibly dramatic

If you've got Disney+ Cosmos has an entire episode about the history of the discovery of how bad leaded gasoline was

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