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This fluoride argument has been going on since my kids were babies. They are in their 50's now. It started as a JBS issue. Gone 180, has it?
Can the sewage treatment plant and the water treatment plant remove all of the hormones, tranquilizers and antibiotics from the water coming from upstream before it gets to my faucet?
My family and I stopped drinking fluoridated water 5 years ago (because of nasty tasting and smelling tap water) and our teeth are just fine. We don't even use fluoride toothpaste. Fluoride is probably overrated. Flossing seems to make more of a difference.
I could never understand why if people choose to use fluoride for the purpose cavity prevention, they still feel the necessity of ingesting it by having it in the drinking water supply. There are enough fluoridated toothpastes and mouthwashes on the market to compensate for non fluoridated water.
Last edited by sickofnyc; 01-23-2012 at 09:25 AM..
What I find funny is how if the gov't does something, conspiracy nuts go wild. If a private corporation does something, nary a peep.
Case in point, fluoride administered by the gov't into water is going to kill us, but chemicals mixing with water due to private company's fracking is Liberal fear mongering.
The nutty conspiracy theorists have always been there on the far left and far right sides. Just as of late with the tea party getting mainstream attention, they are bringing all these far right wing kooks to the limelight.
You nailed it on the head. It generally is caused by people that are crazily D or R and then axe grind when applicable.
A clear example would be the levees breaking in NO. Bush president? Conspiracy....had Obama been president it would have been some *other* sort of conspiracy.
Pinellas County began adding fluoride to its water in 2004. Before that, it was the largest water supplier in the eastern United States that did not fluoridate its water. Fluoridation costs the county about $205,000 a year.
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention calls the practice, which dates to the 1940s, one of the greatest public health achievements of the century. Federal and global agencies and medical groups say it is healthy with the right dosage, despite recent red flags.
"Fluoride is safe, efficient and cost-effective," said dentist Christopher Beach of the Pinellas County Health Department.
But critics seized on recent concerns about too much fluoride having side effects on young children and tea party-style fears of forced government medicating. Some speakers Tuesday compared it to Soviet and Nazi practices and warned of cancer, reduced IQ and deteriorating bones.
"Fluoride is a toxic substance," said tea party activist Tony Caso of Palm Harbor. "This is all part of an agenda that's being pushed forth by the so-called globalists in our government and the world government to keep the people stupid so they don't realize what's going on."
He added: "This is the U.S. of A, not the Soviet Socialist Republic."
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Flouride; part of the agenda that keeps you stupid. I wonder when the additive Nazi's are gonna get all crazy about iodized salt. After all, iodized salt is fairly new. Maybe we can have bad teeth AND goiter.
What has the Tea party movement got to do with tap water? Apparently any opinion on any subject by any person, who claims to be a member of his local Tea party organization, is a reflection on the Tea party? Does that mean we can hold Rosie O'Donnell up as the defacto representative of the policies and views of the Democratic Party?
I'm sure that somewhere in China, or Cuba, etc... that guy is being held up as a representative of our entire nation; which is no different that what you are doing here.
What I find funny is how if the gov't does something, conspiracy nuts go wild. If a private corporation does something, nary a peep.
Case in point, fluoride administered by the gov't into water is going to kill us, but chemicals mixing with water due to private company's fracking is Liberal fear mongering.
It's called a false dichotomy.
When you consider the anti-fluoridation crusaders are predominately radical environmentalists it makes perfect sense.
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