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Hey guys, did you hear? They just found out a new use for ******** Turns out, if you use small amounts of it, that it stops your hair from falling out as much! What a wonderful benefit! We all need hair to keep our heads warm and to be big strong Sampsons. We should start lacing our water with it. There's no reason to assume that it might be impossible to monitor a person's daily intake of water, and therefore ******** to see if they hit critical levels! Everyone wants more hair so it's okay! Big Pharma and the government say it's okay so there's no way they might have an ulterior motive, right?

There's also no logical reason to consider that something that has been done in the name of medical science since the 1950s might show telling results 60 years later.



So easy to be dismissive about things you haven't learned about. Read, you dopes. I can type 90 words per minute but when I'm mostly defending myself and baking soda it seems pointless, when all I've asked is that if you're interested in the information, then you can seek it out yourselves. If it's easier for you to just shoot the messenger and continue being ignorant that's fine. Thanks for the fun, I'm sure there are a few out there who maybe learned something.

******* is a heavy metal. It's just a basic element, and chemicals using it have plenty of potential to be useful. According to lolwiki, there's solid preliminary data to suggest that ******* Trioxide might be a highly beneficial treatment for leukemia, among other disorders.

See, everyone else here understands basic chemistry. You can continue to aggressively flaunt your ignorance by trying to treat basic facts about chem and logic as jokes, or you can learn something.

The former makes you look pathetic.

Fluoride isn't added to whiten teeth, as I'm sure you know.

I wouldn't place a wager on that. And I don't mean the "not for whitening" part.

"Maybe"

Since the extremely obvious point that dosing matters is apparently lost on some people, here is an example. Warfarin is a very common and extremely helpful blood thinner (as in used to prevent blood clots). The dosage of warfarin is very small and is determined by routine blood testing. It is literally a life saving medication for those that need it. It is also a prime ingredient in rat poison due to the very same action that causes it to be such a helpful medication. Too high of a dose can cause internal hemorrhaging which leads to death.

As a super happy side note, warfarin was originally discovered when cattle were mysteriously dying of a severe disease of internal hemorrhaging. At the time sweet clover hay was a common feed stock for cattle. But when it gets too wet and begins to mold it produces coumarin, a potent blood thinner. All of this eventually led to the synthetic medication used today. So not only is this an example of correct dosing being key to how the body reacts to a substance, it also is an example of a naturally occurring substance being deadly, and science finding a way to synthesize said substance and use it to save lives.

In short, hooray for science.

So easy to be dismissive about things you haven't learned about. Read, you dopes. I can type 90 words per minute but when I'm mostly defending myself and baking soda it seems pointless, when all I've asked is that if you're interested in the information, then you can seek it out yourselves. If it's easier for you to just shoot the messenger and continue being ignorant that's fine. Thanks for the fun, I'm sure there are a few out there who maybe learned something.

I learned that a 2 inch deep moat won't stop a bear. Oh wait, that was YOUR lesson.

Also, by reading peer reviewed studies, I've learned that the aggregate risk to human health from dental carries is massive orders of magnitude greater than that of drinking fluoridated water. So if removing fluoride from drinking water supplies resulted in 1 child having one extra dental carry (which it would, incidentally, it greatly reduces them) it would be a negative outcome from a public health standpoint. I also learned, again through reading peer reviewed studies, that the demographic population most at risk for significant, and even rarely life threatening, dental issues is poor children. Unsurprisingly, they are also one of the groups most likely to consume tap water, and the least likely to engage in other topical fluoride dental application. This population, specifically, shows a very strong correlation between improved dental health and living in areas with fluoridated water supplies. I also looked into the toxicity of fluoride, and interestingly, the median lethal dose at that concentrations used in drinking water would require drinking about 400 times the median lethal dose of water. There is no evidence, let me repeat, no evidence...none, that there is a detrimental health effect of long term consuming of fluoridated water.

So, on balance, the result of your "read you dopes" request is this: Removing fluoride from water supplies results in the almost certain death of some non zero number of poor children, with no benefit.

Congratulations, maybe you can Jenny McCarthy can take your crystal children to the blessed well of tooth brushing and rub sea salt on their mouths while they flail around and scream. Then the oral sex, obviously.

Also, while we're here, many studies recently have showed a marked increase in iodine deficiencies because rock fuc[i][/iking stupid suckers buy "sea salt" instead of "table salt" because...I guess because they can afford to spend more money on salt. Or they could donate to the poor children they want to kill. Just kidding, we know that's not as important as feeling smarter than "the man" and avoiding being tricked by Dow Chemical into ingesting their garbage in your water.

Grow up, kid. Cynicism without logic is just as useless as blind faith.

Also, the water in Des Moines, Iowa is fluoridated. So there's that.

I don't think kosher salt is called kosher because it is certified kosher.

I'll have to keep an eye out for that. I've never noticed any, but I prefer using it for everything but baking.

Now if we could just fluoridate it...

In America, kosher salted meat is typically Floridated.