From googling the first major study was released in 2000. Before that the connection to brain damage was known.

Was the connection to crime specifically discussed at all, even though it wasn’t proven?

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    13 hours ago

    I must have consumed a lot of lead, because it took me a while to not read your title as containing a word rhyming with head.

    read (reed) / read (red)
    lead (lede) / lead (led)

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      I was about to trot out the old “English needs diacritics argument” but then realised that “reade”, “readd”, “leade” and “leadd” would solve the problem the ways we usually do it.