Lead exposure in last century shrunk IQ scores of half of Americans

ScienceDaily
Mar 7, 2022, 9:20 pm309 pts
Researchers calculate that exposure to car exhaust from leaded gas during childhood stole a collective 824 million IQ points from over 170 million Americans alive today, more than half of the population of the United States.

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