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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[–] 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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  • [–] 8 points 2 months ago

    I went to look for a new video and didn't see it. It's on the Extra's channel. Here's a link if anyone wants some free range chaos: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oxl8PgXbFd0

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  • [–] 7 points 2 months ago (4 children)

    That’s the first video where I’ve seen the camera guy nope out (and I don’t blame him). I swear to god half of chemistry YouTube is going to drop dead 30 years early.

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  • [–] 14 points 2 months ago (3 children)

    That wasn't the camera guy. It was Tom from "Explosion&Fire" / "Extraction&Ire" who is a pretty cool chemostry youtuber from australia. I think it was a bit or he had something different to do, because he does some pretty sketchy stuff on his own channel sometimes

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  • [–] 7 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    Are you shitting me?? Sometimes I doubt that I’m face blind and then stuff like this happens. I missed the bit because I didn’t recognize him, lol.

    (They still both give me gray hairs!)

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  • [–] 4 points 2 months ago (4 children)

    NileRed got something about lead out? I thought the latest was air booze.

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  • [–] [S] 6 points 2 months ago (3 children)
  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago (1 child)

    I have never seen that warning on a Wikipedia article before

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