Has the lead —> crime waves hypothesis been solidly verified and the roe-v-wade freakononics hypothesis solidly debunked? What’s the latest?
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I wish there was a site that maintained time histories of evolving consensus/dissent on well-posed things like this: what caused the crime wave, is coffee good/bad, best food pyramid,...
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Cellphones ending the crime wave by reducing the necessity to hold territory is another good one. But yeah, I think the evidence is best for lead given it has RCTs.
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There are longer time scale hypotheses that haven’t yet been outed, eg not allowing boys at 5..6 yrs old to play enough, and not to socialize by resolving disagreements amongst themselves.
Covers say last 150 yrs, or Japan vs West.
Jordan Peterson talks about this.
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