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The Lead Effect? Julie Wakefield Abstract
image credit: KTP, Christopher G Reuther/EHP Although most experts in the field of neurotoxicology would agree that exposure to lead at certain levels is detrimental to human neurological development and function, debate is heating up in the United States over the link between lead exposure and such specific effects as increased antisocial and delinquent behavior. As some toxicologists and other environmental scientists call for better research methods and more advanced technological tools to concretely establish such correlations, economists and sociologists are weighing in with their own often controversial evidence. The number of lead-affected children in the United States continues to decline, but attention remains focused on eliminating sources of child lead exposure.
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