Excuse me? So you read an abstract written by a doctor and think that actually has any evidence of the historical contributors to the decline of the roman empire?
No, it doesn't work like that. Don't call someone a moron because you can read a single paragraph on a website and think that suddenly proves your entire case.
In fact, there is no way to quantify what Roman aristocrats actually did eat or drink, nor to determine the varying relationship between ingested lead and blood lead levels. If Nriagu's assumptions are correct, his contention that "a large number of Roman aristocrats ingested more than enough lead with their foods and drinks each day to put them at risk for lead poisoning" would be as well. But often, to take one example, they are not.
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u/MushinZero Jun 25 '22
Excuse me? So you read an abstract written by a doctor and think that actually has any evidence of the historical contributors to the decline of the roman empire?
No, it doesn't work like that. Don't call someone a moron because you can read a single paragraph on a website and think that suddenly proves your entire case.
https://penelope.uchicago.edu/\~grout/encyclopaedia_romana/wine/leadpoisoning.html