NB: I was on the wiki page for Lead to read about all the fun things it does to your body and end up on this page. I don't know if I would have noticed anything off about this article without this note at the top, but something sure seems off about it. Either that, or scientists really did come up with this theory in 2025.

If this violates rule #6 too hard I'll remove this post.

Title: "Me, 5 minutes into the new NileRed video:" and below is a picture of the wikipedia page on the Roman Lead Poisoning Theory

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[–] esc@piefed.social 14 points 2 months ago

Lead poisoning probably didn't impact empire in any significant way, also romans were aware that lead is poisonous. Insane instability of later empire might have much bigger impact on fall of western empire.

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