Pickleball was invented in Washington too. Probably another side effect of lead exposure and breathing in leaded gasoline fumes. Or at least, that's what tennis players like to believe :)
Tetraethyllead was introduced into gasoline in 1922, and lasted about 70 years. The effect would have been greater after WW2 due to there were more cars and a larger population with greater desire for mobility and closer proximity to cars.
During the Depression there were fewer cars for economic reasons, and during WW2 fewer for reasons of rationing and recycling, raw material went to the war effort.
I can't remember the last time I went out of my way to look at who authored something because I disliked it on a visceral level.
The writing here goes from too much punctuation to grad students book review to quasi political rant. And the criticism might be valid but I simply can't get past the horrid delivery.
Prelapsarian... yay I learned a new word. It did not help with the delivery of the conclusion.
Perhaps but I would argue that the most likely reason is genetics plus traumatic childhood. Manson had traumatic childhood; living on the streets, committing crime and spending half of his life in prison and in state institutions. When you add drugs and hippie flower power music scene to that you get Manson.
Bundy also had traumatic childhood not knowing who his real father is and believing his mother is his older sister while being raised by his grandparents. He was violent sex addict always craving for more and more. Imo his genetics played the key part in his deviant violent behavior.
I saw a court case where a mom testified against her adult child and said she drank while she was pregnant, resulting in undermining all of the child defendants decision making process resulting in the defendant’s conviction
To be honest this felt like one of those “too poor for appeal’s court” things
But a ridiculous way of treating a defendant
Imagine if we could tell someone had a mental alteration
I think it’s safe to say the boomers were exposed to lead the most out of anyone especially if they grew up in heavy traffic areas. That said, that’s no excuse since the Romans were probably exposed at a significantly higher rate and they churned out some ingenious projects. Or was lead introduced to Rome toward tail end?
Wasn't a substantial amount of lead used to solder tinned food for like 150 years? That's like two generations where lead leeched into foods. Was there a bump in serial killers from 1810's onward?
The clincher is that competing hypotheses are almost exclusively concerned with phenomena in the U.S. and fall apart as explanations for the same cresting and subsidence of the crime wave in other countries, or even simply in other cities in the U.S. One city does broken-windows policing. Another doesn't. Both experience the same decline in the murder rate.
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[ 3.9 ms ] story [ 24.5 ms ] threadDuring the Depression there were fewer cars for economic reasons, and during WW2 fewer for reasons of rationing and recycling, raw material went to the war effort.
The writing here goes from too much punctuation to grad students book review to quasi political rant. And the criticism might be valid but I simply can't get past the horrid delivery.
Prelapsarian... yay I learned a new word. It did not help with the delivery of the conclusion.
Crime has been dropping for a long time, and it isn’t because of increased professionalism and effectiveness of police or better governance.
Bundy also had traumatic childhood not knowing who his real father is and believing his mother is his older sister while being raised by his grandparents. He was violent sex addict always craving for more and more. Imo his genetics played the key part in his deviant violent behavior.
To be honest this felt like one of those “too poor for appeal’s court” things
But a ridiculous way of treating a defendant
Imagine if we could tell someone had a mental alteration
https://salemwitchmuseum.com/2023/05/17/debunking-the-moldy-...
We do not have the serial killers of the US level by far.
I think culture is key.
https://www.motherjones.com/environment/2016/02/lead-exposur...
https://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2018/02/an-updated-le...
And, addressing the meta-analysis the New Yorker author places so much weight on:
https://jabberwocking.com/yet-another-look-at-that-lead-crim...
The clincher is that competing hypotheses are almost exclusively concerned with phenomena in the U.S. and fall apart as explanations for the same cresting and subsidence of the crime wave in other countries, or even simply in other cities in the U.S. One city does broken-windows policing. Another doesn't. Both experience the same decline in the murder rate.