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Fluoride, Teeth, and the Atomic Bomb (1997)
- mmastrac 16y agoThe anti-fluoride folks remind me a lot of the anti-vax crowd. Lots of random studies, lots of interlinking between the "action sites", "news stories" and nutritional supplement sites and a zillion "A causes B" statements on the action websites. Example: "Warning: Never Swallow Regular Toothpaste" http://articles.mercola.com/members/Dr.-Mercola/default.aspx http://articles.mercola.com/members/Dr.-Mercola/default.aspx Linked from: http://www.fluoridealert.org/ http://www.fluoridealert.org/ as "April 7 on Mercola.com: Warning: Never Swallow Regular Toothpaste" The article links back to fluoridealert.org, as well as to a book written by the author of the alert site. Amusingly, a few product pages on mercola.com state: "These statements have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration. This product is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure or prevent any disease."
- Mz 16y agoThe anti-fluoride folks remind me a lot of the anti-vax crowd. As someone who hangs out on an anti-vax list, I think there is probably a lot of overlap between the two groups. (I don't say that as a put-down. I stopped getting my annual flu vaccine some years ago.)
- gruseom 16y agoI didn't post (and am not endorsing) the site as a whole, but rather an article it reprints. The article seems like credible journalism and is worth reading because of the surprising historical information it contains. For example, I had no idea that fluoridation of drinking water was undertaken as a side-effect of atomic bomb production. Did you?