Re: Rip
Originally Posted by
stevmk2
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Quite right Roxy.
Did you know that their has been research into air quality and the effects on the human brain to try to discover the reason for the apparent decrease in IQ in some sections of the population?
In some cases it seems that basic common sense or inherent learning from experience is being bred out of people and scientists could not find an explanatory link to any of the normal causes that they would have investigated - except a slight reduction in oxygen levels plus an increase in air pollution. This was written off at first because the measurements were minute but in China they've been studying it for many years and found that it could have a cumulative effect over generations.
We already know that thousands of years ago the air quality on earth was far better with an oxygen level of anything up to 10% higher than we have now and if you were to bring a Neanderthal from the distant past back to life now he'd struggle to breathe our air and probably need medical assistance. Makes you wonder..........
stevmk2
I'm not a scientist, but there's a common sense reason why IQ has been lowered over the years and this is my theory.
Back in the day when babies were pushed around in coach-built prams and were at high level, at a time when there were fewer vehicles on the road, the babies weren't contaminated by exhaust fumes.
Today, babies are pushed around in buggies, at exhaust pipe level, and the exhaust contains no less than four carcinogens, which is more than cigarette smoke. In other words, stick a baby in a room full of cigarette smoke and it won't be affected as much as pushing a child around in a buggy through a town or city chugging out exhaust fumes.
There are more kids today with asthma and allergies than there have ever been, and I believe that this is part of the cause of it. Put this theory together with the garbage kids eat today, then you have a primordial soup of toxic inhilation along with rubbish in food.
That's my theory anyway.