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Anti-fluoridation quacks should know there’s no debate
The Dallas Morning News ^
| 05-02-2014
| Jacquielynn Floyd
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 wont 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 isnt the comical Eisenhower-era anachronism you might suspect. Its 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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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: drinkingwater; fluoridation; fluoride; water
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To: PaulCruz2016
As kids we had good teeth. There was natural fluoride in the well water we drank. At 67, I still have my own teeth, my dad died with perfect teeth, my wife has good teeth and my daughters have good teeth. All from well water.
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posted on
05/06/2014 10:01:03 PM PDT
by
Ruy Dias de Bivar
(Sometimes you need 7+ more ammo. LOTS MORE.)
To: PaulCruz2016
Funny being anti-fluoride used to be a considered a right wing cause but it’s become a left-wing cause in recent years
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posted on
05/06/2014 10:04:50 PM PDT
by
tophat9000
(An Eye for an Eye, a Word for a Word...nothing more.)
To: USFRIENDINVICTORIA
“Do you, for instance, also support the addition of Lithium?”
Absolutely yes. I many locales,, Yes. Quaaludes too.
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posted on
05/06/2014 10:24:08 PM PDT
by
DesertRhino
(I was standing with a rifle, waiting for soviet paratroopers, but communists just ran for office.)
To: dfwgator
First they start with the fluoride then bam..... before you know it they are selling us global warming
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posted on
05/06/2014 10:28:53 PM PDT
by
woofie
To: Abby4116
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posted on
05/06/2014 10:33:05 PM PDT
by
Eagles6
(Valley Forge Redux. If not now, when? If not here, where?)
To: goodnesswins
Aquacera Cerametix on Amazon. About $40.
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posted on
05/06/2014 10:37:00 PM PDT
by
Eagles6
(Valley Forge Redux. If not now, when? If not here, where?)
To: PaulCruz2016
Sodium fluoride used to be used as the active ingredient in some insecticides. It works as a pesticide in toothpaste to kill bacteria.
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posted on
05/07/2014 12:04:10 AM PDT
by
Rockpile
To: okie01
I apologize if I misunderstood you — which, apparently, I did.
To: Rockpile
When you tent a house, the poisonous neurotoxin they spouse is sodium fluoride.
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posted on
05/07/2014 12:36:16 AM PDT
by
Yaelle
To: Georgia Girl 2
We filter out fluoride. Alumina is the filter media
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posted on
05/07/2014 12:39:03 AM PDT
by
dennisw
(The first principle is to find out who you are then you can achieve anything -- Buddhist monk)
To: USFRIENDINVICTORIA
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posted on
05/07/2014 2:55:52 AM PDT
by
Elsie
(Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
To: GraceG
plus there is the issue of it being medicine and how are they supposed to accurately control the dosages? How about BOTTLING plants?
You know; Coke® and other soft drinks.
Do THEY use city water to make their product?
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posted on
05/07/2014 2:58:16 AM PDT
by
Elsie
(Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
To: RushIsMyTeddyBear
Look at the money you save by not having to buy BLEACH for your laundry!
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posted on
05/07/2014 2:59:36 AM PDT
by
Elsie
(Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
To: RushIsMyTeddyBear
Note to self: Keep mouth shut while swimming in public pool.
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posted on
05/07/2014 3:00:21 AM PDT
by
Elsie
(Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
To: Abby4116
“When...
...you haven’t any teeth;
up above or beneath;
you can gum it with your
Gummy gum gums!”
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posted on
05/07/2014 3:47:20 AM PDT
by
Elsie
(Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
To: dr_lew
Well, I don't suppose fluoridation is as bad as that, but it is not pure driven snow. Everything has side effects.
Just look how BAD dihydrogen monoxide is for you!
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posted on
05/07/2014 3:53:22 AM PDT
by
Elsie
(Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
To: Morpheus2009
The IRON in my water causes MUCH more grief than the trace amounts of fluoride.
I spend considerable amounts of money buying a chemical (in bulk quantities) that is formed from two of the most dangerous chemicals known to man (chlorine and sodium) to remove this from my water.
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posted on
05/07/2014 3:57:01 AM PDT
by
Elsie
(Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
To: okie01
Please don't insinuate something I never said. That's a conversation stopper. There's a lot of that going on around here. People putting words in other people's mouths and then castigating them for it.
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posted on
05/07/2014 3:58:25 AM PDT
by
Graybeard58
(If any man love not the Lord Jesus Christ, let him be Anathema Maranatha. 1 Cor 16: 32)
To: Yaelle
‘twas mimsey in the borograve...
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posted on
05/07/2014 3:58:41 AM PDT
by
Elsie
(Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
To: Graybeard58
People putting words in other people's mouths and then castigating them for it. Better to be castigated than... Galatians 5:12
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posted on
05/07/2014 4:00:16 AM PDT
by
Elsie
(Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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