[dalereed]

I strongly feel that lead isn't an environmental hazard and in no way damages the brain.

I contend that some idiot professor with a federal grant came up with the "lead makes you brain dead" thesis by only TESTING DUMB KIDS! If he had tested the smartest he would have found just as much lead.

We chewed lead for gum durring WW2, food came packaged in lead foil, I started sanding lead on car bodies at the age of 8, have actually consumes a few gallons of leaded gas over the course of 40-50 years, and some of the smartest people of the 19th and 20th century drank all their water out of pure lead pipe.

[oyez]

Lead does get a lot of bad press. I remember back 30 years ago all the screaming about hollering about childern eating lead paint. I thought the brain damage must be an existing condition if they were eating paint. Anyway, that ended the use of several great pigments. So now were are painting our houses twice as much as necessary.

The plus for lead is that its salts are so insoluble and unreactive they do stay outside the biosystem..

[Hot Tabasco]

some of the smartest people of the 19th and 20th century drank all their water out of pure lead pipe.

Yea, but all of those from the 19th died and most of the 20th are dead too....... (Bad supporting argument) LOL! Just kidding you D....