FLASHBACK: GOPer Angle Spoke Out Against Fluoride In Water Supply

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'The fluoride solutions used in fluoridation must not contain any quantity of lead, arsenic, mercury, or any other substance that may be considered hazardous to human health,' she said. During hearings, Angle said witnesses testified most states use an industrial fluoride that contains such substances.

It is so cute when Republicans pretend they care about water quality.

Blind her with science.

http://forums.randi.org/tags.php?tag=fluoride

Only one of a long list of wacko positions from this gem. The Ds should be so lucky in every race. No doubt Harry will be using black helicoptors rather than vans to get folks to the polls on Election Day.

There is a ton of evidence that municipal water fluoridation is has negative impacts on health, osteoporosis just to name one. The CDC is basing their position on research that was done in the 1950's back when smoking Lucky Strike cigarettes was also endorsed by dentists as a way to fight cavities. Can you name one single study that has been done in the last twenty years that shows fluoridation is good for you? Come on Elliot, do your research! More here: http://fluoridealert.org/fluoride-facts.htm

Man...I'm going to have a wear manpampers on election night. I promised to laugh so hard I shit myself if the Teatards manage to hand Reid his job back and give KY a Dem Senator. It's just too good...too good. This woman is certifiable.

Hopefully we start seeing Democrats dressed up as teeth (instead of chickens) showing up at her campaign events and later polling stations.

I'll bet she's worried about "Reds" in the state department, too.

Where's the part that says Angle objected because of a Communist conspiracy?

Modern science indicates that ingesting fluoride does not reduce tooth decay but does contribute to adverse health effects. More than 2700 professionals, including 260 dentists, urge congress to stop fluoridation See http://www.FluorideAction.Net

7,000 Environmental Protection Agency scientists and health professionals want a moratorium on fluoridation until it can be shown to be absolutely safe for everyone.

Both the Centers for Disease Control and the American Dental Association now admit that fluoridated water should not be mixed with infant formula if parents care to avoid fluoride's adverse effects, such as dental fluorosis, white spotted, yellow, brown and/or pitted teeth.
And what informed parent wouldn't. Unfortunately, this information is not reaching the public who still thinks ingesting fluoride is a good idea.

Politicians who favor fluoridation are influenced by the power and money of the American Dental Association, a union that represents the best interests of dentists.

The CDC does not do any original fluoride research. Endorsements were done by word of mouth decades ago. They aren't science-based.

Fluoridation 101
http://www.orgsites.com/ny/nyscof

This shit is just way too easy. All that is missing is making Shrub a spokesweed for the Nut Suckers.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18695947

Alex Jones just called, he wants his conspiracy back.

For those of you that want to see the list of scientific and medical journals with recent studies that seriously question both the efficacy and safety of fluoride, here you go:
http://www.fluoridealert.org/health/teeth/caries/topical-systemic.html

Teabaggers are not the only Americans that have educated themselves about Flouridated water. You should too. I am left of Progressive, and quite well informed, and not by merely reading the quite varied quality of news & views written on HPost & TPM.
Check out the info readily available.
Even if you want to be floridated, along with your family, you have no right to force me to ingest the crap. It is NOT in the water to sterilize, de-contaminate or improve the quality of the water. It is there as (dental) medication. In the US, there are many products available which provide floride for topical application, the only way that it does provide dental benefits, to the extent that it does. Now the floride in our water supply in addition to the other products we may use could put children 'over the top', yes floride in excess is damaging to the health. READ UP on it before you write such nonsense. You'll find that it is advised that newborns and infants NOT drink floridated water, making parents have to find such non-floridated water for their young children. That is madness.

Ms Angle may have many odd beliefs, but just because she believes it doesn't make it odd. Again I strongly urge YOU to inform yourself on this subject, as at this point you've apparently 'swallowed the (floridated) Kool-aid'

Geeze. No one is forcing ANYONE to drink ANYTHING. You don't want fluoride, drink bottled water.
Ozonation (then o3 removal via carbon)such as France uses is likely a better treatment for drinking water than the use of various chlorine compounds. You know what people do when they don't want to drink their chlorinated tap water? They either filter it, or buy bottled water. No one is forcing them to drink chlorine. For the sake of argument, lets just eliminate all of the halogens. If you don't want halogens or halogenated compounds in your drink- filter it, or buy bottled. But don't buy the fluorinated distilled water in the baby aisle of the grocery store- unless you want fluorinated water. What? You can purchase fluorinated bottled water? Thats crazy!
The point is- you have a choice. You have a choice to drink or not drink tap water. It's not a free commodity. It's something you purchase. If you don't like the specs of said commodity, purchase a different "brand" of it from elsewhere (or filter it). It's not like a "commie" gov't is forcing you to drink it.
You've got a frackin' choice!

I am not one to believe that increased incidence of degenerative and inflammatory diseases we see today is a result of increased longevity, especially with the freakish increase in these conditions among the young in the form of diabetes and obesity,...

Call me crazy, but it seems to me that increased dietary sugar (and especially the increased consumption of sugared soft drinks) would be more likely to have something to do with that than fluoride in the water.

My boss swallowed all this anti-fluoride stuff when her daughter was born, and took steps to be sure she was never contaminated with it. Now at the age of 6 or 7, that child is having to have extensive dental work done every time you turn around.

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-- Water fluoride chemicals boosts lead absorption in lab animals’ bones, teeth and blood, was reported by Sawan, et al. (Toxicology 2/2010). Earlier studies already show children’s blood-lead-levels are higher in fluoridated communities, reports Sawan’s research team.

-- State University of New York researchers found more premature births in fluoridated than non-fluoridated upstate New York communities, according to a presentation made at the American Public Health Association’s annual meeting on November 9, 2009 in Philadelphia.

-- New York State Department of Health dentist J. V. Kumar published national statistics in the July 2009 Journal of the American Dental Association which show similar cavity rates regardless of water fluoride content, However, dental fluorosis rates increased along with water fluoride levels. See analysis “Fluoridation No Benefit; Definite Harm,” by Kathleen M. Thiessen, Ph.D., SENES Oak Ridge, Inc., Center for Risk Analysis here:http://www.newmediaexplorer.org/chris/Clinch_2009_No_Benefit_Definite_Harm.pdf

-- The National Kidney Foundation dropped its fluoridation support replacing it with this caution: “Individuals with CKD [Chronic Kidney Disease] should be notified of the potential risk of fluoride exposure.”

-- Researchers reporting in the Oct 6 2007 British Medical Journal indicate that fluoridation never was proven safe or effective and may be unethical. (4)

-- “A qualitative review of ...studies found a consistent and strong association between the exposure to fluoride and low IQ,” concluded Tang el al., in "Fluoride and Children’s Intelligence: A Meta-analysis” in Biological Trace Element Research (5)

-- Scientific American editors wrote in January 2008, "Some recent studies suggest that over-consumption of fluoride can raise the risks of disorders affecting teeth, bones, the brain and the thyroid gland"


-- A study in the Fall 2008 Journal of Public Health Dentistry reveals that cavity-free teeth have little to do with fluoride intake. Researchers report, "The benefits of fluoride are mostly topical…while fluorosis is clearly more dependent on fluoride intake."

-- Research published in Biological Trace Element Research (April 2009). indicates that blood fluoride levels were significantly higher in patients with osteosarcoma than in control groups. (13) Osteosarcoma, a rare bone cancer, occurs mostly in children and young adults

-- All infant formula, whether concentrated or not, contain fluoride at levels that can discolor teeth - even organic, according to research published in the October 2009 Journal of the American Dental Association.

"Fluoride appears to have the potential to initiate or promote
cancers, particularly of the bone...," according to the most recent
and extensive review of fluoride toxicology by the prestigious
National Research Council (NRC 2006).

Fluoridation is linked to bone cancer
(osteosarcoma) in young boys, is reported in Harvard's peer-reviewed
journal, "Cancer Causes and Control."

More scientifically verifiable adverse health effects of fluoride are here http://www.FluorideAction.Net/health

-- State University of New York researchers found more premature births in fluoridated than non-fluoridated upstate New York communities, according to a presentation made at the American Public Health Association’s annual meeting on November 9, 2009 in Philadelphia.

What exactly did they find?

Domestic water fluoridation was associated with an increased risk of PTB [preterm birth]. This relationship was most pronounced among women in the lowest SES [socio-economic-status] groups (>10% poverty) and those of non-white racial origin,” write Rachel Hart, et al. Department of Epidemiology & Biostatistics, SUNY School of Public Health.

Ooops, they just invalidated the claim that fluoridation is associated with preterm births.

If it the case that fluoridation was responsible for preterm births, then the levels would be consistent across social economic groups. The fact that it is not suggests that other factors are present. Without any information about these factors there is no way that any positive link between fluoridation and preterm births can be validated.

Well, it's good to know that such kooky ideas are equally held amongst the members of various political philosophies. I was beginning to think that the fluoride wackos were predominantly Libertarian. Maybe they still are, but this thread doesn't give me much hope.

I guess it's just the nature of the Internet as a kind of flypaper for people with personality disorders.

People who think fluoride in the water is nefarious should be mocked and ridiculed. Marginalizing poor judgment is necessary for species survival. America is a breeding ground for paranoid ideas, and the only way out if it is for people to aggressively deride these poorly thought out ideas.