Season 1 Episode 20

Plumbum pt.2 - Effect

Overview

In today’s episode we’re looking at the cascading effects of lead poisoning across all of our societies. How this silent social destroyer accumulates, as it does in our bodies, across our social structures. The lifelong brain-damage our affected children will need continual support with. The correlation and now causation lead poisoning has with national violent crime states and if that doesn’t mess your head up enough, we’ve kept some of the worst stats for last.

Recommended reading and listening

• The Man Who Warned the World About Lead | NOVA | PBS
• Deficits in psychologic and classroom performance of children with elevated dentine lead levels - PubMed
• The Constant: A History of Getting Things Wrong - The Constant
• The fatal attraction of lead - BBC News
• Murderland: Crime and Bloodlust in the Time of Serial Killers by Caroline Fraser | Goodreads
• Did Lead Exposure Create Serial Killers? - Stuff They Don't Want You To Know | iHeart

Sources:

• HISTORY OF LEAD POISONING IN THE WORLD Dr Herb Needleman 1999
• Yes, lead poisoning could really be a cause of violent crime | George Monbiot | The Guardian
• What is lead doing in protein powder? - ABC listen
• A third of the world’s children poisoned by lead, new groundbreaking analysis says
• Leaded Gas Exposure Tied to 151 Million Excess Cases of Mental Illness Cases | MDedge
• The Internet Is The World's Worst Pharmacy w/ Paris Martineau & Ashwin Rodrigues - Better Offline | iHeart
• CR Tested These Protein Powders. All Had Low Levels of Lead. - Consumer Reports
• https://www.consumerreports.org/babies-kids/baby-formula/baby-formula-contaminants-test-results-a7140095293/

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