Say, studies started showing links between the amount of pollution and violent crime. What would happen in this country?

6/1/2016 10:08:00 PM

by "links", do you mean simply a positive correlation or scientific proof of causation?

is this about the leaded gasoline/crime rate correlation?

6/1/2016 10:13:49 PM

People would post jpegs of minions and simple sentences about Monsanto, vaccinated, GMO and cite the source from some crazies blog

6/1/2016 10:23:05 PM

^^both already exist.

6/2/2016 12:05:21 AM

^Wow, I didn't know you were so openly racist towards Chinese people

6/2/2016 12:23:31 AM

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" by "links", do you mean simply a positive correlation or scientific proof of causation"

Sounds like the go-to cigarettes don't cause cancer argument from the 50's

6/2/2016 1:07:30 AM

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"Cool strawman"

6/2/2016 1:52:08 AM

It wasn't an argument. It's a question.

6/2/2016 8:28:57 AM

^^ come onnnnnnnnnnnnn buddy that's not even remotely a strawman. You could stretch for false equivalence if you were desperate, but that would be dumb too.

6/2/2016 8:39:51 AM

i would enact stricter punishments for violent crimes, to bring pollution down

6/2/2016 8:42:48 AM

It would depend on how strong the link was. Does pollution influence crime rates by 5% or 75%? You'd need good evidence well into 30+% range to get any movement out of our shitty government.

[Edited on June 2, 2016 at 9:28 AM. Reason : Causation already exists between lead and a tendency toward reactionary violent crime]

6/2/2016 9:26:26 AM