No personal disrespect meant to you, but yours is just an idiotic statement. Mother Jones. Great source. A bastion of scientific discourse. Let's be clear. I never said a word about lead ingestion. Sure lead is bad for us if we injest it, so don't do that! Let's be clear. I never suggested that we reintroduce lead into gasoline, which renders that hilarious article moot. Morever, when was the last time that lead escaped from the paint on your car, infected a person, who then committed a violent crime? I used lead as an example of a good binding agent for paint. You took the opportunity to distort that and to begin a political "conversation" on crime rates in cities? It's ludicrous. And, as for arsenic, just like lead, it has valuable uses. Small amounts of it are added to germanium transistors. If you ever had a GOOD boost pedal for your guitar, it contained arsenic. it's also used in weapons manufacturing to make harder and rounder bullets. But I discourage eating bullets and boost pedals.
Gallium arsenide can produce laser light directly from electricity. So, did I suggest that we ingest lead? No. Are there viable uses for arsenic? I guess we shouldn't use these elemental compounds for anything, because they could be abused for something. There are oth . . . nevermind. People believe what they want to believe. I am done with this thread. You have proven my point.