Iodine was added to salt back in 1924 to help fight goiter, which was caused by an iodine deficiency in the diet of many people who lived nowhere near the ocean (and who thus didn’t get much in the way of ocean fish, the main source of iodine). Turns out that an iodine deficiency in the womb and in infancy also reduced IQ. And thus there was an increase in about 15 IQ points in those regions where iodine had been scarce. Woo!

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The dumbening of America (current):

Wanted: Young Creation Scientists

Like science? Like God? Like lying? Oh, boy, does this guy have a career path for you!

Sigh.

Summon anti-dumbenation!

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NdGT: “I don’t even care if someone wants to say “You don’t understand that; God did it.” That doesn’t even bother me. What would bother me is if you were so content in that answer that you no longer had curiosity to learn how it happened. The day that you stop looking — because you’re content God did it — I don’t need you in the lab. You’re useless on the frontier of understanding the nature of the world. I’m glad, whoever those folks are, that there aren’t that many of ‘em. Because if they dominated the world, we’d still be in the cave. We would have never left the cave. Because “there are mysterious things out there, and God is doing that, and you don’t need to know that, and don’t even think about it.” Where would we be, if their understanding of the world ruled the world?”