Posted on 05/06/2014 7:58:26 PM PDT by PaulCruz2016
An angry reader — one of many — is impatiently waiting for me to explain myself after an earlier column in which I characterized anti-fluoride activists as delusional cranks.
“You are promoting the mass medication of your community,” she wrote. “It makes absolutely no sense to put this hazardous waste into our drinking water. Why are you pushing for this insane practice? I look forward to your response.”
I have a response, but she won’t like it: I am at an honest loss as to how to respond to crazy talk. If someone wants to believe flying saucers are beaming gamma rays into his flower beds, he is self-evidently resistant to logic. What are you supposed to say?
Anti-fluoridation quackery isn’t the comical Eisenhower-era anachronism you might suspect. It’s alive and well right here in Dallas, where activists are trying to persuade members of the Dallas City Council to end five decades of routine water fluoridation. Disturbingly, at least a few council members seem to be listening.
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If you were given baby vitamins chances are they were Poly-Vi-Flor if you did not have fluoride in your drinking water.
Its been a very very long time since I was given any baby vitamins.
/johnny
Chlorine is added to disinfect the water, while fluoride is added to treat the drinker of the water. I don’t mind if chlorine is used sparingly (as it is in our water district); but it isn’t a substitute for the proper collection, storage and distribution of the water supply. Some water districts overuse chlorine, and that’s not good.
I filter out the chlorine in water I drink. I do that mainly to improve the taste; but, also because chlorinated drinking water is a proven carcinogen.
Let me ask you: where do you draw the line on government adding medicinal chemicals to your drinking water? Do you, for instance, also support the addition of Lithium?
I use fluoridated tooth paste, and fluoridated mouthwashes. That way, I decide how much fluoride I will ingest. Why do you prefer government to make those decisions for you?
But the docs and the dentists really believed in Fluoride for teeth in the 50s, 60s, 70s. It also occurs naturally in water in many areas.
Then why waste money putting it in water systems?
Given the voting habits of most urban dwellers I think a case could be made against it.
” chances are they were Poly-Vi-Flor”
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What difference does it make to have fluoride for teeth that a baby will loose anyway?
I don’t have it in my water. So far so good for me ad my family.
Please don't insinuate something I never said. That's a conversation stopper.
But I think your second teeth form while you still have your baby teeth.
Don’t remember voters having any say in this. It was a national decision in 1951 based on studies done before 1945. (I had to look that one up) but I do remember when they put it in Philadelphia’s drinking water not too long after that.
“But I think your second teeth form while you still have your baby teeth.”
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Well, I do not know, and too old to learn or worry about it.
My mouth has more gold then it has teeth.
It was my impression that fluoride affecting teeth was simply from contact, as in having it painted on the teeth by a dentist, or tooth contact with fluoridated water.
That is why I wonder why there would be much use in any treatments for kids with baby teeth.
The facts of the case militate against the appellation of quackery, IMO. The principal fact is that this is not a case of some trace "element" being added to the water with merely imagined deleterious effects. The amounts which are considered therapuetic are within a factor of order unity of amounts considered deleterious. In fact there are regions of the country where the natural water has enough flouride to be deleterious.
Then, if the "quacks" are relics of the Eisenhower era, so are the practice and justification for this practice. Recall this is an era when fluoroscopes were installed in shoe stores. The amount of radiation exposure these things produced was absolutely outrageous, yet anyone pointing out their dangers might have been considered a "quack", at least by the shoe store manager.
Well, I don't suppose fluoridation is as bad as that, but it is not pure driven snow.
Nicely played
In fact, I filter my water, personally, I don’t like the Fluoride in the water, or the Chlorine either. Minerals in water are also not neccessarily good for my expectant wife and small children either. But chances are yes, decent mouthwash and toothbrushing with fluoride supplement should do the trick.
Giant Bingo!
Haven’t had a cavity in 5 years for the first time in my close to 60 years..
Berkey all the way and non fluoride toothpaste!
I didn’t know there were filters for fluoride...are they costly?
Fluoride is industrial waste.
Fluoride is industrial waste.
Don’t forget the rain water.
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