I've been wracking my brain trying to come up with the most ridiculous hypothesis ever so that I can apply for a grant to prove my unbelievable theory in an incredibly unscientific manner. Oh wait, someone beat me to it!
Lower IQs are linked to Pre-Natal Pollution!
Somebody named Federica Perera got my grant money. What Federica did was put backpacks on pregnant women in the South Bronx, Harlem and other low income spots in New York to measure the air pollution they were exposed to during their offspring's gestation. Then, at the age of five, the kiddies got IQ tests. Guess what? They didn't do so good. Reason? The freakin' dirty air, of course!
I think Federica is scamming us.
1) No one actually thinks that dirty air is good for gestating fetuses or any life forms. I don't recall ever seeing a 'study' that claimed that pollution was good for you.
2) Why didn't Federica have middle and upper income mothers-to-be wear her backpacks? What? There's no pollution on Park Avenue?
3) Am I the only one who thinks that maybe there are other reasons why kids who grow up in poverty have lower IQs than their middle class counterparts?
The fact that people are taking this seriously makes me question their intelligence. And I'm not blaming it on their mothers sucking carbon monoxide while they were in utero.
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