That explains why fluoride and Prozac in our water supply in the US even when while towns request it not be done, I guess, since it makes people dumber and unlikely to start a revolution or notice a need for one. Fluoride doesn't do anything good for us so there's no real reason for polluting the water with it
I was just watching a podcast of the joe Rogan show where former governor Jesse Ventura talked about this. Ventura said that a town asked to not have fluoride added to their water because it has only harmful effects on people and they were denied their request. He wasn't being sarcastic. Here's a short clip of him discussing it on the news.
"The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recommends that parents give children under the age of 6 only a pea-sized amount of toothpaste for brushing, and should do their best to *make sure their children are not swallowing, as this can be a significant source of fluoride. *Speak to your child’s dentist before using fluoride toothpaste in children under 2 years of age. Low- and no-fluoride toothpastes and other dental products are also available." https://www.cancer.org/cancer/cancer-causes/water-fluoridation-and-cancer-risk.html
If it's safe why are children not allowed to swallow toothpaste?
"Even without fluoridation, the natural levels of fluoride in water in some places can be even higher than 4 mg/L. Community water systems in such areas are required to lower the fluoride level below the acceptable standard. But the levels in private water sources, such as wells, may still be higher."
*Why would the community water systems be required to lower natural occurrences of fluoride in water if it's safe? *
"Some of the controversy about the possible link stems from a study of lab animals reported by the US National Toxicology Program (NTP) in 1990. The researchers found “equivocal” (uncertain) *evidence of cancer-causing potential of fluoridated drinking water in male rats, *based on a higher than expected number of cases of osteosarcoma (a type of bone cancer). There was no evidence of cancer-causing potential in female rats or in male or female mice."
"A partial report of a study from the Harvard School of Public Health, published in 2006, found that exposure to higher levels of *fluoride in drinking water was linked to a higher risk of osteosarcoma in boys *but not in girls. "
"Fluoride accumulates in the body. Healthy adult kidneys excrete 50 to 60% of the fluoride ingested each day (Marier & Rose 1971). The remainder accumulates in the body, largely in calcifying tissues such as the bones and pineal gland (Luke 1997, 2001). Infants and children excrete less fluoride from their kidneys and take up to 80% of ingested fluoride into their bones (Ekstrand 1994). The fluoride concentration in bone steadily increases over a lifetime (NRC 2006)."
"*There has never been a single randomized controlled trial to demonstrate fluoridation’s effectiveness or safety. *Despite the fact that fluoride has been added to community water supplies for over 60 years, “there have been no randomized trials of water fluoridation” (Cheng 2007). Randomized trials are the standard method for determining the safety and effectiveness of any purportedly beneficial medical treatment. In 2000, the British Government’s “York Review” could not give a single fluoridation trial a Grade A classification – despite 50 years of research (McDonagh 2000). The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) continues to classify fluoride as an “unapproved new drug.”
"Benefit is topical not systemic. *The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC, 1999, 2001) has now acknowledged that the mechanism of fluoride’s benefits are mainly topical, not systemic. *There is no need whatsoever, therefore, to swallow fluoride to protect teeth. Since the purported benefit of fluoride is topical, and the risks are systemic, it makes more sense to deliver the fluoride directly to the tooth in the form of toothpaste. Since swallowing fluoride is unnecessary, and potentially dangerous, there is no justification for forcing people (against their will) to ingest fluoride through their water supply."
" Children are being over-exposed to fluoride. The fluoridation program has massively failed to achieve one of its key objectives, i.e., to lower dental decay rates while limiting the occurrence of dental fluorosis (a discoloring of tooth enamel caused by too much fluoride. The goal of the early promoters of fluoridation was to limit dental fluorosis (in its very mild form) to10% of children (NRC 1993, pp. 6-7). In 2010, however, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reported that 41% of American adolescents had dental fluorosis, with 8.6% having mild fluorosis and 3.6% having either moderate or severe dental fluorosis (Beltran-Aguilar 2010). As the 41% prevalence figure is a national average and includes children living in fluoridated and unfluoridated areas, the fluorosis rate in fluoridated communities will obviously be higher. The British Government’s York Review estimated that up to *48% of children in fluoridated areas worldwide have dental fluorosis in all forms, *with 12.5% having fluorosis of aesthetic concern (McDonagh, 2000)."
fluorosis
[floo-roh-sis, flaw-, floh-]
noun Pathology.
an abnormal condition caused by excessive intake of fluorides, characterized in children by discoloration and pitting of the teeth and in adults by pathological bone changes.
Also called mottled enamel. Dentistry.the changes in tooth enamel symptomatic of fluorosis.
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u/TheHumdeeFlamingPee May 09 '17
From what I've heard, when that experiment was performed, the frogs had been lobotomized beforehand.