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Lead exposure in last century shrank IQ scores of half of Americans, study finds
March 8, 2022 by NewsBot
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.
