Zed A. Shaw, Painter

The sexual revolution of the 1960s was always attributed to the birth control pill, but if you look at the prevalence of lead pollution from WWII on you'd see that the boomers were most likely just poisoned with lead and it damaged their ACC.

Now, post-Boomer people would be smug that it didn't happen to them, however: Apparently 50% (!!!!!) of PoC in poor parts of the US were poisoned with lead. All of those people lived in apartments that were gentrified in the late 90s early 2ks. And....

We know those yuppies moving into that apartment in Park Slope didn't erradicate all the lead paint and pipes that could be there. That'd mean their kids (who are about 20 now) could very well also be poisoned with lead. That could be Lead Baby Gen 2.

Drug addiction could also be directly related to lead poisoning. The fact that it creates a compulsion to injest things combined with an ability to: 1. Control pain. 2. Evaluate potential rewards/punishments. 3. Regulate impulses. 4. Avoid obsessive behaviors. Says yes.

There's also another weird as hell idea I had: You know how people with similar psychologies seem to collect together, or view others like them as totally normal? Get enough people poisoned with lead and nobody would think any of this is weird. It'd be the normal.

Alright, so lead poisoned weirdos who can't control theirself, do tons of drugs, and act like sociopaths are normal. And nobody suspects that, well, maybe Americans are weird because of some poison. Can you say https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confounding …

What if, the Replication Crisis in Psychology is *not* because Psychologists are fraudsters who ran around fabricating bullshit? What if it's just everyone they analyzed was poisoned with lead, and now people aren't, so the results are different?

That'd mean that--since lead poisoning wasn't controlled for--nearly every psychology study for the last 50 years is suspect and wouldn't represent anyone who was not lead poisoned. Like, what if social priming totally works--only on lead babies. Everyone else it doesn't work.