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 Ho Li Phuc writes:
> There were claims by "experts" in the post World War II era that
> inner-city African-American children would eat the chips of falling
> apart plaster in old houses that contained lead from paint due to
> hunger.

Not hunger. Old paint sheds dust.  Small children often lick random
things and put all sorts of stuff in their mouths.  They then ingest
lead dust from lead paint.

> It was claimed by these "experts" that the lead exposure from eating
> the paint flakes lowered the IQ of these inner city children by 10 to
> 20 points.

While there is little doubt that there is an impact estimates of the
size of that impact are guesswork.


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