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http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2013/01/lead-crime-link-gasoline?page=1

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Nevin collected lead data and crime data for Australia and found a close match. Ditto for Canada. And Great Britain and Finland and France and Italy and New Zealand and West Germany. Every time, the two curves fit each other astonishingly well. When I spoke to Nevin about this, I asked him if he had ever found a country that didn't fit the theory. "No," he replied. "Not one."

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Interesting. Now I wonder about the new emissions from un-leaded and catalytic converters - Benzine. Wonder what that brings us?

Benzine? Liver damage, leukemia, cancer,

CDC toxicology of benzene

The EPA limited the percentage of benzene allowed in gasoline to an average of 1% (with a maximum of 5%) as of 1990. As of 2011, this limit is further reduced to an average of 0.62% (with a maximum of 1.3%).

Getting gasoline on bare skin isn't a good idea.

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The freakonomics article is old enough the link to the data study is invalid.

Here's a copy of that Donohue-Levitt hypothesis.

And here's the wiki, listing a couple of rebuttals.

And a list of traits and theories that associate with criminal behavior.

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