Quote Originally Posted by Ramses II CP View Post
Not only that, but our very language, our methods of dress, our belief in the divine, the essential flavor of our culture has been altered at it's root. What do you think a person from 1908 would call an African American? Or a Chinese woman? They'll be shorter than we are, with bad teeth uncorrected by braces, and probably with some degree of dementia from a lifetime of exposure to lead paint.
Actually the peak levels of lead contamination in the air according to Ice Core samples from Greenland and Mont Blanc was around about 1973. The worst time to have this is at childhood... so anyone who is a child of the seventies has had the worst general atmospheric exposure to lead.