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Wow, I'd previously scoffed at anti-fluoridation stuff, thinking that everyone who made these claims sounded like General Ripper. But this was an interesting hi
by wyldfire 3y ago
Wow, I'd previously scoffed at anti-fluoridation stuff, thinking that everyone who made these claims sounded like General Ripper. But this was an interesting historical perspective.
But ... what then keeps us in the status quo of fluoridated water supplies? Aluminum companies, still? seems unlikely that their influence would hold sway for a century. A century during which we have found other environmental pollutants and enacted/enforced regulation to reduce or eliminate their influence.
- simoom22 3y ago> But ... what then keeps us in the status quo of fluoridated water supplies? > ...thinking that everyone who made these claims sounded like General Ripper.
- wyldfire 3y agoSo ... it's all Kubrick's fault? The film didn't come out until half way into that century. And now we have generations who've never heard of it.
- tylersmith 3y agoNo, it's the fault of people who scoff at concern about fluoride in tap water without having researched it.
- hello_computer 3y agoJust about every minerals business is going to have loads of fluoride to discard--aluminum, uranium, gypsum, NPK, etc. A few years back I watched a documentary about a fertilizer plant in Morocco, dumping the fluoride they discarded from their NPK mix into the water supply. All of the children near the plant had spindly, twisted arms and legs from skeletal fluorosis. It is also peculiar that a toxicologist becomes a dentist, and ends up at the atomic energy commission[0]. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_Hodge https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_Hodge