do you ppl always listen to what government agencies tell you?
WOW, top ten greatest public health accomplishments. kudos for the CDC for working you over with that line.
no one is paying you (?) to endorse water fluoridation with your life. i'd imagine us dentist hopefuls would be biased in favour of it because we want what's best for the health of our future patients and we've been led to faithfully, blindly believe in flouridation. im quite certain that you believed in fluoridation before you actually read some clown's work on it, cuz someone else said so and it made sense. i know i did. go pull out a wikipedia article on the issue at the very least and read something that isn't totally left or totally right and it begins to read like a conspiracy theory cuz it all seems inconclusive or contradictory. [note: im not a conspiracy theorist and if you don' tlike my wiki referencing you can go to hell]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_fluoridation_controversy#cite_note-12
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An Exercise in Rhetoric
i found this website, check out
http://www.fluorideworks.org/research/faq
here's an excellent example of how rhetoric, marketing, and all else deceitful can come under your scepticism radar and make you believe in just about anything. look at the color scheme, the visuals, the words on the website "parental", "community", "benefits"...i feel all warm and tingly inside and want to puke, and then believe in fluoridation as this wonder-drug that's safe, cheap, effective, etc etc etc. check out the doctor on the bottom to make this look legit. wow, im sold! a doctor! i bet he read a pamphlet listing how great fluoridation is.
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big pharma uses pretty ads like this all the time to make me think i have diseases that may or may not exist, need drugs i can't spell, or inform my friends and family about the latest issue in this or that so one of them can be stupid enough to ask their doctors about it. i hope fluoridation is not on the same level. no one apparent is profiting from dumping F(-), the second strongest Lewis base next to the hydride anion, into the water. ingesting strong nucleophiles in low quantities is safe they say. just like mercury.
that site is actually making me angry.
one of the FAQs asks if Fluoridation is banned in Europe and they say no. but that's a bit of technicality manipulation. if may not be BANNED but it is not practised in quite a few countries, such as sweden, germany, and netherlands. why is that? well that was my initial point to begin with: it is not necessary in developed lands as some countries have the sense to understand and the population hasn't been misinformed to love it.
another asks if fluoride is a toxic waste. Answer: of course not, its a 'byproduct'. guess what? my **** is a byproduct too, go eat it. this rhetoric makes me sick.
the government may be misinformed. if something like iraq intelligence got fudged up, at least keep the possibility of the net-benefit of water fluoridation being less stellar than claimed in question.
please do me a favour and don't reply to my post. just make whatever you want from it and maybe be a better person from it.
Happy Drinking.
