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The man who lowered the IQ of the world

Mike Jeffreys

Michael is joined by Alan Howe, The Australian Newspaper History and Obituaries editor, about Thomas Midgley, the brilliant scientist whose invention one hundred years ago killed millions, caused young men to become violent, lowered the IQ of the world and almost ruined the planet.

This year marks a century since the American Chemical Society awarded Midgley its Nichols Medal for developing a compound that prevented the knocking in internal combustion engines. He called it Ethyl. The world called it lead, which had been known for millennia to be a deadly poison.

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