Slashdot Mirror

← Back to Stories (view on slashdot.org)

Trace Levels of Lead Shown to Lower IQs

Posted by michael on from the duh dept.

constantnormal writes "This government study explains a lot of things, from the American public's propensity to elect the worst candidates, to the decreasing fraction of students who bother to study the "hard" sciences, to the overwhelming power advertising holds over their apparently simple minds. I think it was all the leaded gasoline burned in this country prior to the 1970s.
Homer Simpson IS the archetypal American -- Thinking and Reasoning is just too doggoned difficult."

1 of 78 comments (clear)

  1. Hey fag... by inflexion · · Score: 0, Troll

    Homer Simpson may be a stereotypical american but he isn't archetypical. Some of us can think, and some of us were born BEFORE Homer.