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		ng12 on March 22, 2018 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: America’s Misguided War on Childhood Lead Exposure... We don't even know that lithium deficiency is definitively a thing, it's not like there's an established RDA. There could be any number of reasons why it's correlated with lower violent crime.

vanderZwan on March 22, 2018 [–]

Lithium is prescribed in bipolar disorder, wouldn't that imply it is reasonably understood?

magic_beans on March 22, 2018 | [–]

"Reasonably understood" is not the same as "Oh, hey, this seems to work."

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