Are you saying that the drop in blood lead levels caused obesity within just a few years?
It wasn't just the lead in the fuel which made it bad- it was more it's chemical form Tetra-ethyl Lead. In it's pure form TEL is deadly toxic to touch or inhale, and it's chemical make-up is such that animal tissue absorbs it almost instantly Once it went back into the ground, nature broke it down and removed most of it's toxicity save for the lead itself which was in the ground to start with. Now we have MTBE in our fuel which nature cannot break down, and it's already in all of our aquifers deep on the ground where it will remain toxic forever. That stuff reduces reproductive fertility, causes cancer, gets into the plants we eat, and in higher concentrations can alter DNA
Lead, like asbestos, isn't as bad as most folks think. It's damage was mostly to those who were exposed to high concentrations of it without protective measures in place over long periods of time who were harmed by it. The effect on the average person was so minimally proven that it would not be accepted as proof for other scientific purposes. It is only that we knew it was bad for us overall and that we had ways of mitigating it that got people so paranoid about it Lead is still being spewed in the air by piston-powered airplanes. It's in your phone and computer. It's in batteries and most of the metals all around you. It's in most of the older municipal water supplies. In all the hundreds of years we used it without caution it didn't harm the human race so don't worry about it- just be careful with it and enjoy the benefits it brings us
Lead poisoning from rotating cylindrical objects coming toward you at high velocities is a whole different story and the most deadly of all forms of lead poisoning
Phil
I remember as a kid we used to have access to liquid mercury in school and would coat pennies with (with our bare hands) it in the hopes of passing them off as either nickles or dimes - didn't work....Ditto for a whole raft of other things too ...
FWIW I'm sure to have had far more than an average exposure to lead. I've sanded leaded paints without a mask for decades and I was once a very active target shooter using mostly cast lead bullets. I've breathed soldering fumes since I was a kid. I have a very healthy heart, low blood pressure, and whatever mental function I've lost at 58 wasn't due to lead poisoning Yes, lead exposure can be bad for you but it's not the huge evil monster you are being told it is, otherwise whole generations of us would have shown the effects they claim it causes and it is very clear that didn't happen Ditto for asbestos. Ditto for cyclamates. Ditto for a whole raft of other things too
Like kamkar1 says in his siggy, your brain is your friend and if you couple it with your eyes you will see that there's a huge amount of supposed 'scientifically proven truth' which doesn't quite jibe with what we all see. Yes there are things which are bad for us but we always need to question what we're being told if it doesn't align closely with what we can see for ourselves Don't 'drink the kool-aid' anyone offers you no matter how good it sounds, and don't make your own for yourself either
Phil
Global warning is not new. It is what ended the last ice age.
This is how global warming was looked at back then.
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