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I've Come Over To The Antiflouridation Side
« on: September 10, 2014, 01:13:16 PM »
I posted this in response to arguments made by the antiflouridation folks on a local news board:

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Now that I have been informed as to the horror that is flouride in my tap water, I took a look at the OTHER components of tap water and how they might be hazardous.

Even.  More.  Horrific.  Gavin Cleaver commenting-on-Texas-weather horrific.  [NB: Cleaver is a Brit living in Texas who was rather horrified by this summer's heat.]

In its liquid form, the dihydrogen monoxide added to the water in my tap is responsible for 3500 deaths annually from inhalation alone!  THREE THOUSAND FIVE HUNDRED DEATHS!!!!!!!111 And I have data to prove it:

http://tinyurl.com/thehorror2014

In its solid form, the dihydrogen monoxide added to the water in my tap is partly responsible for 20000 deaths annually from merely contacting it with the sole of one's shoe!  TWENTY THOUSAND DEATHS!!!!!!!111 [Sound of roo_ster rending his garments and wailing in profound grief]  And I have data to prove it:

http://tinyurl.com/morehorror2014


I do not have the intestinal fortitude to look any farther, but I think we can all understand that the city gov't is pumping foul poison and horror into our homes and on to our children when they shower.  Might as well be dumping putrefied chum mixed with rat poison on our babies.  This must be stopped and thus I fully support the efforts of the antiflouridation crowd to remove any possible hazard that might come out of my water spigot.  They are saints for a new age.  Bless them all.



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Re: I've Come Over To The Antiflouridation Side
« Reply #1 on: September 10, 2014, 01:20:38 PM »
20000 deaths from slips and falls, not all of them are from solid dihydrogen monoxide.
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Re: I've Come Over To The Antiflouridation Side
« Reply #2 on: September 10, 2014, 01:36:33 PM »
20000 deaths from slips and falls, not all of them are from solid dihydrogen monoxide.

Sure .... go and pour cold water on his argument  :P
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Re: I've Come Over To The Antiflouridation Side
« Reply #3 on: September 10, 2014, 01:38:26 PM »
Flouride people, anti-vaxxers, 9/11 troofers: some people are just not worth the time to argue with.
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Re: I've Come Over To The Antiflouridation Side
« Reply #4 on: September 10, 2014, 02:11:05 PM »
20000 deaths from slips and falls, not all of them are from solid dihydrogen monoxide.

That is not the claim.  The word "partly" was invoked.  But do please allow a fellow to hyperventilate a bit over the total number in the name of mistaken association.
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Re: I've Come Over To The Antiflouridation Side
« Reply #5 on: September 10, 2014, 02:45:23 PM »
If you take that solid form of dihydrogen monoxide, float it in a solution containing ethanol, and then consume that mixture, the person can suffer dizziness, headache, vomiting, and even a loss of consciousness.  If you do it right.
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Re: I've Come Over To The Antiflouridation Side
« Reply #6 on: September 10, 2014, 03:10:22 PM »
If you take that solid form of dihydrogen monoxide, float it in a solution containing ethanol, and then consume that mixture, the person can suffer dizziness, headache, vomiting, and even a loss of consciousness.  If you do it right.

Some of that isn't a bad thing.  Sometimes you just need to take the ethanol solution and enhance it with a drop or two of dihydrogen monoxide.
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Re: I've Come Over To The Antiflouridation Side
« Reply #7 on: September 10, 2014, 03:24:50 PM »
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Re: I've Come Over To The Antiflouridation Side
« Reply #8 on: September 10, 2014, 04:01:17 PM »
I'm no fluoride 'troofer' but the municipalities that do add fluoride are doing it based on junk science- its about on par with sticking magnets on your fuel line to 'magnetically charge' your fuel, or the special shower heads that 'align the charged particles' that hit you in the shower.

Fluoride in water does almost no good, ingesting fluoride ions does absolutely nothing for your teeth and can potentially weaken your bones and damage your kidneys- though not likely at the concentrations that its being added.
Fluoride treatment of teeth requires prolonged contact with the teeth- its actually a chemical reaction that replaces some of the Ca atoms with F atoms which in turn changes the crystalline structure of the tooth enamel, making it harder and resistant to acid attack.


Brushing with fluoride toothpaste every day will do a lot more for your teeth than putting fluoride in the water supply.


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Re: I've Come Over To The Antiflouridation Side
« Reply #9 on: September 10, 2014, 04:13:52 PM »
So if we removed dihydrogen monoxide from the water supply we could prevent thosands and thousands of deaths?

Why has Bush refused to take this simple life-saving action?  Is it for the same reason he refused to remove the dihydrogen monoxide from NOLA? [tinfoil]

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Re: I've Come Over To The Antiflouridation Side
« Reply #10 on: September 10, 2014, 04:29:56 PM »
I can't believe you didn't mention the horrible addiction that dihydrogen monoxide causes...

Frequent abusers who have their supply taken away start begging for it within hours. It's so addictive that if their supply isn't reestablished, they can die within a matter of days!

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Re: I've Come Over To The Antiflouridation Side
« Reply #11 on: September 10, 2014, 04:40:34 PM »
I'm no fluoride 'troofer' but the municipalities that do add fluoride are doing it based on junk science- its about on par with sticking magnets on your fuel line to 'magnetically charge' your fuel, or the special shower heads that 'align the charged particles' that hit you in the shower.

Fluoride in water does almost no good, ingesting fluoride ions does absolutely nothing for your teeth and can potentially weaken your bones and damage your kidneys- though not likely at the concentrations that its being added.
Fluoride treatment of teeth requires prolonged contact with the teeth- its actually a chemical reaction that replaces some of the Ca atoms with F atoms which in turn changes the crystalline structure of the tooth enamel, making it harder and resistant to acid attack.


Brushing with fluoride toothpaste every day will do a lot more for your teeth than putting fluoride in the water supply.




What junk science?  There seems to be plenty of evidence that fluoridation of drinking water reduces tooth decay.

http://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/antifluoridation-bad-science/

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Re: I've Come Over To The Antiflouridation Side
« Reply #12 on: September 10, 2014, 05:27:26 PM »
What junk science?  There seems to be plenty of evidence that fluoridation of drinking water reduces tooth decay.

http://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/antifluoridation-bad-science/

Yep, both ingestion and application show a benefit.
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Re: I've Come Over To The Antiflouridation Side
« Reply #13 on: September 10, 2014, 05:39:23 PM »
Addiction to dihydrogen monoxide also causes people to carry plastic bottles around with them in the opposite hand they carry their smart phone.  Also lengthy contact with the substance causes skin to wrinkle.
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Re: I've Come Over To The Antiflouridation Side
« Reply #14 on: September 10, 2014, 05:54:21 PM »
If you held a person's head in a vat of dihydrogen monoxide, they would die quickly and YOU'D BE ARRESTED. BAN DIHYDROGEN MONOXIDE!

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« Reply #15 on: September 10, 2014, 06:26:09 PM »
Didn't the CIA use dihydrogen monoxide to get info from some bad guys?
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Re: I've Come Over To The Antiflouridation Side
« Reply #16 on: September 10, 2014, 07:27:34 PM »
Didn't the CIA use dihydrogen monoxide to get info from some bad guys?

It's called dihydrogen monoxide boarding. [tinfoil]
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Re: I've Come Over To The Antiflouridation Side
« Reply #17 on: September 10, 2014, 08:32:47 PM »
Didn't the CIA use dihydrogen monoxide to get info from some bad guys?

It was also used to interrogate accused witches.
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Re: I've Come Over To The Antiflouridation Side
« Reply #18 on: September 10, 2014, 09:45:13 PM »
It was also used to interrogate accused witches.

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Re: I've Come Over To The Antiflouridation Side
« Reply #19 on: September 10, 2014, 10:29:19 PM »
Addiction to dihydrogen monoxide also causes people to carry plastic bottles around with them in the opposite hand they carry their smart phone.  Also lengthy contact with the substance causes skin to wrinkle.

On the other hand, back when I was in the Boy Scouts we saved a lot of weight on backpacking trips by carrying dehydrated H2O. When we needed it -- we just added water.
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Re: I've Come Over To The Antiflouridation Side
« Reply #20 on: September 11, 2014, 06:47:06 AM »
What junk science?  There seems to be plenty of evidence that fluoridation of drinking water reduces tooth decay.

http://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/antifluoridation-bad-science/

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Re: I've Come Over To The Antiflouridation Side
« Reply #21 on: September 11, 2014, 09:42:03 AM »
If you take that solid form of dihydrogen monoxide, float it in a solution containing ethanol, and then consume that mixture, the person can suffer dizziness, headache, vomiting, and even a loss of consciousness.  If you do it right.

And if used incorrectly, regret and pregnancy.