If pollution is a significant cause of IQ decline, you would expect to see the worst results where pollution builds up, in the largest tributaries and outflows of major rivers. These cover several urban centers which claim to be unaffected.
Pollutants and toxins do seem bad on their own. I have significant doubts that the damage they do compares in scale to dysgenic mating patterns.
Cities tend to have better pollution control, and also cities have too volatile of a population to really study this sort of thing. People are constantly coming in. The very low IQ of west virginia could be considered evidence of teh pollution hypothesis, but I think razors prefer brain drain
Here's an idea: use the CEO's of chemical industry companies to test their own products, at higher concentrations than appear in the environment, thus providing an early warning system.
I'd put frying oil high on the list. We switched from solid partially hydrogenated oils to liquid polyunsaturated seed oils over the course of my lifetime. We replaced one bad thing with another.
Acne for the teens and heart attacks for the middle aged were a big thing when I was young. Partially hydrogenated oils deserve a significant part of the blame.
Acne is still around, of course, but I don't see as many full on pizza faced teenagers as from back in the day.
However, replacing partially hydrogenated oils with liquid seed oils has its own problems. Said oils are delicate. What goes in is not what gets eaten.
The brain has a very high fat content. It is also supposed to have a high omega 3 content. They are now adding omega 3 oils to some milk and to baby formulas, which is good. But I wonder at the effect of damaged omega 6 oils in the deep fried crappe. Highly unsaturated oils cross link and oxidize when kept hot in a deep fat fryer for a week. Ditto for being thrown on a hot griddle.
The effect might be as bad as the partial hydrogenation of yore -- but different
Need regulations to limit the amount of heating of seed oils. Need to change out the oils in deep fat fryers way more often. Saturated fats should be used for fast frying on griddles.
They are turning the frigging frogs gay too
If pollution is a significant cause of IQ decline, you would expect to see the worst results where pollution builds up, in the largest tributaries and outflows of major rivers. These cover several urban centers which claim to be unaffected.
Pollutants and toxins do seem bad on their own. I have significant doubts that the damage they do compares in scale to dysgenic mating patterns.
Cities tend to have better pollution control, and also cities have too volatile of a population to really study this sort of thing. People are constantly coming in. The very low IQ of west virginia could be considered evidence of teh pollution hypothesis, but I think razors prefer brain drain
Here's an idea: use the CEO's of chemical industry companies to test their own products, at higher concentrations than appear in the environment, thus providing an early warning system.
The number of candidates is huge.
I'd put frying oil high on the list. We switched from solid partially hydrogenated oils to liquid polyunsaturated seed oils over the course of my lifetime. We replaced one bad thing with another.
Acne for the teens and heart attacks for the middle aged were a big thing when I was young. Partially hydrogenated oils deserve a significant part of the blame.
Acne is still around, of course, but I don't see as many full on pizza faced teenagers as from back in the day.
However, replacing partially hydrogenated oils with liquid seed oils has its own problems. Said oils are delicate. What goes in is not what gets eaten.
The brain has a very high fat content. It is also supposed to have a high omega 3 content. They are now adding omega 3 oils to some milk and to baby formulas, which is good. But I wonder at the effect of damaged omega 6 oils in the deep fried crappe. Highly unsaturated oils cross link and oxidize when kept hot in a deep fat fryer for a week. Ditto for being thrown on a hot griddle.
The effect might be as bad as the partial hydrogenation of yore -- but different
Need regulations to limit the amount of heating of seed oils. Need to change out the oils in deep fat fryers way more often. Saturated fats should be used for fast frying on griddles.
We’re cooked gang 🙏