US EditionDoes Lead Poisoning Create Serial Killers?
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Does Lead Poisoning Create Serial Killers?
Environmental news publication Grist spoke to Pulitzer Prize-winning author Caroline Fraser about her new book, Murderland: Crime and Bloodlust In The Time of Serial Killers. They specifically asked about an idea Fraser posits in her book: what if infamous serial killers who haunted the Pacific Northwest were made that way not because of nature or nurture, but because of something as mundane and seemingly out of left field as air pollution? Fras…
The origins of the "serial killers" could be played where they are least expected. Caroline Fraser's "Murderland" explores a surprising link between lead pollution and the outbreak of brute violence, in an investigation combining memory and scientific data.
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