Thanks! This is entertaining while still being highly informative. It helps a lot understanding how those aluminium hats are thinking. It may help short circuiting that thinking.
It’s always depressed me that various movements I wholeheartedly support (I’m an organic gardener who also distrusts commercially processed food additives) are so prominent in wacko and dangerous right wing conspiracy theories. During the pandemic I found myself avoiding several groups where I’d been active for years due to the anti-mask, anti-vax nonsense they were promulgating.
Also-- The Broom!!! Did “they “ have to “pay” extra for all those “scare quotes”????
I've been wondering for a while what is the best way to deal with people acting in bad faith. It's clear you can't give them publicity, but what else can be done when people close their minds off to anything they disagree with?
I was born near Cincinnati a few months after that article... with fluoride in my water. I never fully realized the benefits until I moved to Portland as an adult. My new dentist checked my teeth and told me he's happy to see i grew up with fluoride in my water, that my teeth were in much better shape than most of his patients who grew up around Portland. (Including my wife's.)
Somehow I also grew up in a family interested in science and history which probably has strengthened my disregard for unsubstantiated crackpot notions. Perhaps someday through understanding these threads we'll be able to strengthen society to get beyond all this.
I’m a resident of Albany and I was at the 2022 city council meeting you describe where the discussion on fluoride was held. The highlight of that meeting for me was the public comment by a local pediatrician who was most effective at shooting holes in at least one of the anti-fluoride arguments using props! Video of the meeting is on the city’s website. I agree Albany is in some ways a good representation of the larger country. And that gives me a little hope because change is happening here, slowly, but it is happening.
Fluoridation began in 1945 with the mistaken belief that fluoride was an essential nutrient which teeth needed to develop decay-free. But it's neither. Consuming a fluoride-free diet won't cause cavities. Like all drugs, fluoride has adverse side effects. After 78 years of water fluoridation reaching 100% of Americans via the water and/or the food supply, tooth decay is epidemic and so is fluoride overdose symptoms - dental fluorosis (white spotted, yellow, brown and/or pitted teeth) now afflicting 70% of US children and adolescents http://FluorideDangers.Blogspot.com
Fluoridation began in 1945 with the mistaken belief that fluoride was an essential nutrient which teeth needed to develop decay-free. But it's neither. Consuming a fluoride-free diet won't cause cavities. Like all drugs, fluoride has adverse side effects. After 78 years of water fluoridation reaching 100% of Americans via the water and/or the food supply, tooth decay is epidemic and so is fluoride overdose symptoms - dental fluorosis (white spotted, yellow, brown and/or pitted teeth) now afflicting 70% of US children and adolescents
Forgive me but a short perusal of fluoridation in water yielded some info I think is accurate. That is that once fluoride was added to toothpaste and other things then fluoridated water no longer offered decay prevention over those not getting fluoridated water. And yes fluoride does have some potential negative health risks. So on that basis one can question continued fluoridation of municipal water and then will lead XX% of people down the rabbit hole.
Thanks! This is entertaining while still being highly informative. It helps a lot understanding how those aluminium hats are thinking. It may help short circuiting that thinking.
It’s always depressed me that various movements I wholeheartedly support (I’m an organic gardener who also distrusts commercially processed food additives) are so prominent in wacko and dangerous right wing conspiracy theories. During the pandemic I found myself avoiding several groups where I’d been active for years due to the anti-mask, anti-vax nonsense they were promulgating.
Also-- The Broom!!! Did “they “ have to “pay” extra for all those “scare quotes”????
I've been wondering for a while what is the best way to deal with people acting in bad faith. It's clear you can't give them publicity, but what else can be done when people close their minds off to anything they disagree with?
I was born near Cincinnati a few months after that article... with fluoride in my water. I never fully realized the benefits until I moved to Portland as an adult. My new dentist checked my teeth and told me he's happy to see i grew up with fluoride in my water, that my teeth were in much better shape than most of his patients who grew up around Portland. (Including my wife's.)
Somehow I also grew up in a family interested in science and history which probably has strengthened my disregard for unsubstantiated crackpot notions. Perhaps someday through understanding these threads we'll be able to strengthen society to get beyond all this.
I’m a resident of Albany and I was at the 2022 city council meeting you describe where the discussion on fluoride was held. The highlight of that meeting for me was the public comment by a local pediatrician who was most effective at shooting holes in at least one of the anti-fluoride arguments using props! Video of the meeting is on the city’s website. I agree Albany is in some ways a good representation of the larger country. And that gives me a little hope because change is happening here, slowly, but it is happening.
Fluoridation began in 1945 with the mistaken belief that fluoride was an essential nutrient which teeth needed to develop decay-free. But it's neither. Consuming a fluoride-free diet won't cause cavities. Like all drugs, fluoride has adverse side effects. After 78 years of water fluoridation reaching 100% of Americans via the water and/or the food supply, tooth decay is epidemic and so is fluoride overdose symptoms - dental fluorosis (white spotted, yellow, brown and/or pitted teeth) now afflicting 70% of US children and adolescents http://FluorideDangers.Blogspot.com
Fluoridation began in 1945 with the mistaken belief that fluoride was an essential nutrient which teeth needed to develop decay-free. But it's neither. Consuming a fluoride-free diet won't cause cavities. Like all drugs, fluoride has adverse side effects. After 78 years of water fluoridation reaching 100% of Americans via the water and/or the food supply, tooth decay is epidemic and so is fluoride overdose symptoms - dental fluorosis (white spotted, yellow, brown and/or pitted teeth) now afflicting 70% of US children and adolescents
Forgive me but a short perusal of fluoridation in water yielded some info I think is accurate. That is that once fluoride was added to toothpaste and other things then fluoridated water no longer offered decay prevention over those not getting fluoridated water. And yes fluoride does have some potential negative health risks. So on that basis one can question continued fluoridation of municipal water and then will lead XX% of people down the rabbit hole.