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Lead in gasoline tied to over 150 million
excess cases of mental health disorders,
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Posted By: konocti95, 12/9/2024 12:20:44 PM

Exposure to lead in gasoline during childhood resulted in many millions of excess cases of psychiatric disorders over the last 75 years, a new study estimates. Lead was banned from automobile fuel in 1996. The study, published Wednesday in the Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, looked at its lasting impact in the U.S. by analyzing childhood blood lead levels from 1940 to 2015. According to the findings, the national population experienced an estimated 151 million excess mental health disorders attributable to exposure to lead from car exhaust during children’s early development.

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Reply 1 - Posted by: JackBurton 12/9/2024 12:22:55 PM (No. 1851368)
Question. With lead banned from gas in 1996... ...has mental illness declined or increased since then?
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Reply 2 - Posted by: konocti95 12/9/2024 12:23:04 PM (No. 1851369)
About half the population...now we have an explanation for Democrats!
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Reply 3 - Posted by: kono 12/9/2024 12:28:04 PM (No. 1851372)
Implying that we know how many cases there would have been without the lead in gasoline. As if we can prove nothing else was the cause (or contributed to it).
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Reply 4 - Posted by: stablemoney 12/9/2024 12:32:48 PM (No. 1851376)
I have no confidence in any of these reports. Studies are being released that say everything produced kills us, everything we eat kills us. But there is this common sense: Not using products leaves us exposed in the wild, and not eating will also kill us. Please do not bother me with any report from "experts" that tried killing us all with mandatory shots.
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Reply 5 - Posted by: cor-vet 12/9/2024 12:37:34 PM (No. 1851379)
I've siphoned it, got mouthfuls of it, drove cars that ran on hi-octane leaded gas in the 60's, serviced Air Force planes w/avgas, refueled helicopters with JP-4 and used octane additives and I've made it to 82. I think the mental health disorders are from two things, liberals in schools and liberal politicians. But I'm sure, if we as a nation, throw enough tax-payer funds at this problem, we can fight it forever. Like every other health emergency, we can never cure it, but we can enrich a segment of the medical profession and big pharma!
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Reply 6 - Posted by: Bur Oak 12/9/2024 12:37:44 PM (No. 1851380)
Another study suggests from experts. Tomorrow there will be another study that suggests something. Send grant money to me so I can study and make a suggestion.
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Reply 7 - Posted by: stevendm 12/9/2024 12:39:40 PM (No. 1851382)
So how do they explain the huge increase in mental health issues (thinking a boy can become a girl, etc) in the kids born after 1996 that have never been exposed to lead in gasoline? And why study this anyway, there is nothing that can be done about it? Obviously, just more tax money spent on something that accomplishes nothing.
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Reply 8 - Posted by: texaspast 12/9/2024 12:46:29 PM (No. 1851386)
And lawyers are salivating. Just when the asbestosis gravy train is running out of steam, a new target emerges!
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Reply 9 - Posted by: Quigley 12/9/2024 1:18:18 PM (No. 1851398)
Another compelling reason to shut down evil oil, convert to renewables and offload such illness onto the third world child expendables. Yes, the Dims have perhaps painted themselves into a corner.
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Reply 10 - Posted by: chumley 12/9/2024 1:30:17 PM (No. 1851403)
Whatever you do, look away from the vaccines! Lead is the culprit!
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Reply 11 - Posted by: Safari Man 12/9/2024 1:32:32 PM (No. 1851405)
There's a vaccine for that coming soon, no doubt!
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Reply 12 - Posted by: Safari Man 12/9/2024 1:33:42 PM (No. 1851407)
I guarantee there's an even stronger correlation between mental illness and watching MSNBC, CNN, ABC, NBC, CBS.
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Reply 13 - Posted by: DVC 12/9/2024 1:44:51 PM (No. 1851411)
I don't buy this story. Lead is massively overrated as a toxin by the folks who make money from this.
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Reply 14 - Posted by: philsner 12/9/2024 2:11:06 PM (No. 1851430)
When the leftist media says "study suggests", they or the "study" are lying. Or maybe both.
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Reply 15 - Posted by: nwcudagal 12/9/2024 3:11:14 PM (No. 1851455)
Weirdos used to sniff glue; they've changed to gas?
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Reply 16 - Posted by: NamVet70 12/9/2024 4:26:18 PM (No. 1851494)
If both lead in gasoline and fluorine in water both reduce mental developmental in children, then we must be looking forward to an extremely bright future. Lead was banned in gasoline in 1996 but the catalytic converters were required in new automobiles in 1975 and that is when use of unleaded gasoline really began. The 1975 and later year models of autos caused a progressive reduction of the use of leaded gasoline, so the benefits of that factor should have become readily apparent by the 1990's. However I don't think I have seen anything to suggest that young adults are any brighter than the generations that were heavily exposed to leaded gasoline exhaust fumes. There must be something else detracting from their mental development. Could it be the fault of the education system? Perhaps the Department of Education has suppressed mental development.
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Reply 17 - Posted by: red1066 12/9/2024 4:36:01 PM (No. 1851498)
The only lead is in the brains of climate change idiots.
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Reply 18 - Posted by: LC Chihuahua 12/9/2024 5:08:12 PM (No. 1851517)
Another ploy to push people to EVs.
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Reply 19 - Posted by: kono 12/9/2024 5:19:00 PM (No. 1851518)
Not to mention the definitions, classification, and identification of "mental illness" has shifted around a lot in that time, with more and more criminal acts being redefined as mental illness, and political opponents being dismissed as mentally ill (the way the Dems spoke of people who support Trump, pray Rosaries, oppose abortion, support the 2nd amendment, advocate fiscal self-discipline, refuse to affirm gender ideology, et al) Must be all those lead Rosaries...
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Reply 20 - Posted by: Jethro bo 12/9/2024 5:37:28 PM (No. 1851524)
Garbage in garbage out study. The original health concern was not mental illness but high blood pressure. The rise in mental illness is primarily in women born after 1996 and middle age that are white, college educated, privileged Democrat and go by the name Karen.
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Reply 21 - Posted by: Ida Lou Pino 12/9/2024 6:24:49 PM (No. 1851541)
Another study suggests that millions of delusional leftists - - have been driven bat-guano crazy by the lunatic BS emitting from NBC news. I believe that one - - much more than I believe this one.
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Reply 22 - Posted by: mc squared 12/9/2024 7:03:27 PM (No. 1851552)
I believe nothing. Especially when there's money to be made for 'further study'.
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Reply 23 - Posted by: DVC 12/9/2024 7:05:27 PM (No. 1851553)
Re #15, yes, some crazy folks literally were sniffing gasoline. I don't think that has anything to do with this broad brush BS story, though.
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Reply 24 - Posted by: NorthernDog 12/9/2024 7:09:35 PM (No. 1851556)
Gas station attendants used to be exposed to lead in gasoline all day long -sometimes for years. How many were mentally ill?
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Reply 25 - Posted by: Felixed 12/9/2024 7:27:33 PM (No. 1851564)
We drank water from garden hoses back then too. Sorry. There's more to it than just "lead". How's about mass formation psychosis created and reinforced by elite-designed propaganda?
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Reply 26 - Posted by: WV.Hillbilly 12/9/2024 11:03:49 PM (No. 1851644)
It increased the octane rating, allowed engine compression to be raised substantially and increased vehicle performance and fuel economy.
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Reply 27 - Posted by: franq 12/10/2024 6:08:13 AM (No. 1851730)
How many of them ate carrots?
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Reply 28 - Posted by: 5 handicap 12/10/2024 6:32:08 AM (No. 1851742)
BULL Hockey! From NBC, what else can one expect?
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Reply 29 - Posted by: New Mexico Rider 12/10/2024 9:52:41 AM (No. 1851917)
Dow Chemical Company was a major supplier of tetraethyl lead back in the '20's I think...although the Ethyl Corporation really came up with the Idea around the end of WW I. Our high performance airplanes in WW II would not have performed nearly as well without lead.... Lots of noise being made now about lead...what about the millions of individuals who in the last 5 years have been maimed and murdered by Big Pharma and their bogus Vaccines? What long-term increase in autism will be linked to these vaccines? This is NOW...not 50 years ago.
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