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Sep 02, 2013 07:08

I just read a disturbing article. The site was posted on Natural Living.

Once ingested, fluoride compounds attack the structural integrity of our insides," says Shane Ellison, author, chemist, and founder of ThePeoplesChemist.com. "Collagen, a web-like network connecting our skeletal system to muscles, is torn apart by fluoride. We feel it as ( Read more... )

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missingkeys September 2 2013, 14:12:34 UTC
I got to witness an argument about this over the summer when our families collied in a nightmare of a holiday. My husband's parents, who are hippies, think fluoride is evil. My stepmother, who's a nurse, boggled at them. There are different studies that allegedly say different things. I'm pretty much of the opinion that since so many governments put fluoride into drinking water supplies it can't be as evil as certain people claim it to be. Not that I think governments always make the best decisions ever, but I'm pretty sure they wouldn't go all out in an attempt to poison people and then keep doing it for decades and have heaps of other countries follow suit.

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replyhazy September 2 2013, 14:50:22 UTC
Chronic fluoride poisoning doesn't present as ligament damage, but as things like stunted growth and mottled teeth. You might find this page interesting:

http://www.cdc.gov/fluoridation/safety/index.htm

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gryphonwing September 2 2013, 16:23:25 UTC
I've seen this kind of argument before, and it was just as ridiculous then.

If all someone can say to explain a mechanism is "it attacks our insides," they're in the business of selling bridges, and they're not even very good at it. XD

At this point we have a LOT of data on long-term use of flouride by a large population. If anyone making this kind of claim isn't citing any of it, it's because they can't.

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somniumdraconae September 2 2013, 17:10:31 UTC
Whenever I see articles that have phrases in big bold letters about how the system is full of fraud and we should be using this great natural product that nobody knows about because the system is trying to keep it hidden..... I take it with a huge bucket of salt. Someone is trying to sell you something and it probably isn't legitimate. As gryphonwing said, we have oodles of data on fluoride use in large populations, so I'm pretty sure something about what it does and how it does it is readily available and it's no secret.

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gryphonwing September 2 2013, 22:58:03 UTC
People could absolutely crunch the numbers and find something out if they wanted to. Even if you just wanted to scam people, it would be easy. With that much longitude in the data, I'm really really sure there would be interesting correlations. Fluoridation probably correlates with crime reduction, heh. It's just a spurious correlation. They're easy to exploit if you can find a probable-looking one, which is why nearly everything has been targeted as the "cause" of autism ( ... )

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