[FormerLurker]

This sounds great to someone who doesn't know chemistry, but it is absolute bunk.

No, it'd be the other way around actually.

Listen, anyone can go look this stuff up in any chemistry book. Anyone who KNOWS chemistry will see through your arguments.

Obviously, if anyone did a Google search on calcium fluoride, they'd see what the facts are in relation to that. If you want to say there's no such thing, or that it falls apart in water where it is no longer calcium fluoride, there isn't much use in pursuing this, as you will just continue to make stuff up as you go.

If you want to say up is down and left is right, well, there isn't any point in discussing this any furthur. I really have more important things to do.

Good day.

[TomB]

Listen, anyone can go look this stuff up in any chemistry book. Anyone who KNOWS chemistry will see through your arguments.

Then do it. Show me how an ion of fluoride from calcium fluoride is different from an ion of fluoride from sodium silicofluoride.

The fact of the matter is that free fluoride ions are naturally occurring in almost all water supplies. You are trying to scare people that fluoride at this level is somehow damgerous, yet you can't tell me why most of the country isn't sick.

Now tell me. What is the difference between "natural" Fluoride and "supplemental" fluoride?

[Morrigan]

The hullaballoo over whether to vaccinate or not kind of escapes me. There are risks to any vaccine, but what you do is weigh the risk of getting sick from the vaccination (which is very rare) against the risk of getting sick from the disease (and diseases like that will kill or otherwise permenantly mark you for the rest of your life). It is more likely that a person will get sick from a disease than a vaccination.

It's like taking your children to have them immunized. There is a chance that something can happen, but it is a small chance. I'd rather get my kids immunized than take my chances with them getting sick, paralyzed, or dead.