The Man Who Accidentally Killed The Most People In History

If you want a fascinating story telling video with a lot of sciency stuff for the relative layman, here's an excellent one by Veritasium on how it happened. "The Man Who Accidentally Killed The Most People In History" ▶ this video

Veritasium did a great video on Midgley: ▶ this video And therein they give the reason why ethanol was passed over: a lot of it is required to be effective (~10% of the fuel mixture), seriously dampening the profit margin of fuel sales! It works, but tetraethyl lead is so much cheaper

▶ this video This youtube channel does a good job of explaining his inventions and just how bad for society they were.

Have you seen this Veritasium video about the man who came up with adding tetraethyllead to gasonline and it's negative impact on humanity? ▶ this video Given how dangerous lead is in even the tiniest quantities it is really surprising that there has not been more pressure to change that.

(2021) Veritasium covers the story behind lead in gasoline in ▶ this video , it's a really interesting albeit sad video. If I recall correctly, he mentions this study in the video.

I don't like how "toxic forever chemicals in the bloodstream" is a normal thing Veritasium has a great YouTube video about this: "The Man Who Accidentally Killed The Most People In History"[0] [0] - ▶ this video

The Man Who Accidentally Killed The Most People In History ▶ this video > This, my dear friend, is all I can at present recollect on the Subject. You will see by it, that the Opinion of this mischievous Effect from Lead, is at least above Sixty Years old; and you will observe with Concern how long a useful Truth may be known, and exist, before it is generally receiv'd and practis'd on. > Benjamin Franklin, 1786

I mean, apparently the inventor of lead additive to gasoline used to pour the chemical over his hands to demonstrate how safe it was -- even though he knew it was actually quite toxic. So there are people who will knowingly give themselves small doses of poison to keep the money flowing. [1] ▶ this video

Oh, the link between GM and leaded gasoline makes more sense in that context. TEL had been identified chemically in the mid-19th century, but General Motors had discovered its effectiveness as an antiknock agent in 1921, after spending several years attempting to find an additive that was both highly effective and inexpensive. link Video treatment: ▶ this video

It is illuminating that the paper doesn’t mention lead while discussing IQ decline in the recent decades. ▶ this video

The people vested in using lead in fuel said so out of profit motive, but it seems lead was widely known to be harmful for hundreads of years [0] before it was using it fuel. [0] ▶ this video

Good because as we just seen in the latest Vartasium video [1], even chemicals or elements we know are toxic for hundreds of years get pushed into the public and cause huge harm. [1] ▶ this video