Harvard Study Confirms Fluoride Reduces Children's IQ

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  1. tennisdude818

    tennisdude818 Banned at Members Request

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    http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dr-mercola/fluoride_b_2479833.html

    I'd rather just take personal responsibility over my dental health and not have to drink fluoride water. At this point, I suppose it would be too embarrassing for the government to admit that adding this crap to the water for all these years was a bad idea. Central planning strikes again.
     
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    Oh god. This conspiracy crap again. I suppose they think the Jews and Illuminati are responsible for this.

    Average IQ is actually going up.
     
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    It helps when you actually read the article.
     
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    Foolardi Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    Citing yerself as personal authority ... eh.
    There's a reason that Autism is at record levels.
    That todays public school youth are performing very poorly.
    Our food is literally being Poisoned.Whether by GMO's or
    aspartame.Most americans are too busy watching stupid TV to
    notice.Yes,most TV today is downright stupid.It's also being
    poisoned.God,Church,Truth,the American way are all targets
    now.It's now fashionable to bad mouth George Washington and
    Thomas Jerrerson.Talk of doing away with our Constitution.
    Crazy talk.Just crazy.Yet amercians have been poisoned so they
    can't quite decipher.As long as most other americans follow along like good
    sheeple,then it goes unnoticed.The teachers union can pad test scores and
    reward certain groups { Atlanta had an outbreak of just that }. Teachers
    were caught red-handed taking home tests and incorrectly grading them.
    Why would they do that.To have bragging rights.To showcase certain minorities
    as bright and worthy of special scholarship.
     
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    JohnnyMo Moderator Staff Member Donor

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    High fluoride vs low fluoride. That is the issue
     
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    tennisdude818 Banned at Members Request

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    Or we could just play it safe and take it all out. My teeth are my responsibility, your teeth are your responsibility.
     
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    It pays to read the cited article. The comprehensive review identifies the possibility of adverse effects from high fluoride exposure upon nuero-development. In turn, it calls for further research on fluoride exposure and prenatal development, and more detailed accounts on fluoride exposure and nuero-development. In other words, a more definitive study of the correlation between fluoride exposure and nuero-development is necessary, not government policy.
     
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    tennisdude818 Banned at Members Request

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    It certainly does pay to read the article, that's why I posted it.
     
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    thediplomat2.0 Banned

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    Yes, yet the conclusion clearly is attempting to elicit further research on the correlation between fluoride exposure and nuero-development, not government policy. Calls for removing fluoride from drinking water, etc. can be logically deduced as premature.
     
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    tennisdude818 Banned at Members Request

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    I believe you have the order backwards. Something foreign is being added to the water supply, and evidence is building that this causes some degree of damage to children. Are you saying that it has to be proven without a shadow of a doubt that it is harmful before the government should stop forcing people to drink it?
     
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    Meh, government probably likes when everyone is stupid anyway. Makes them easier to brainwash.
     
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    No, I am saying that it pays to adhere to the suggestions of the comprehensive review. As the piece indicates, further research on the relationship between fluoride exposure and prenatal development is in order, in addition to more detailed accounts on the relationship between fluoride exposure and nuero-development. This does not mean absolute certainty is necessary, but extensive certainty based upon greater research combined with robustness checks is necessary. The jury is not unequivocally out.
     
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    This isn't really any different from what I said above. Sure, they found a correlation and would like to study the matter further to see whether or not causation can be confirmed. If this was for an OTC drug then the consumer could decide whether or not they would like to chance it and assume that the correlation is coincidental. Or they could decide to not buy the drug just in case the correlation looks too risky, at least until further studies come out. This is different, this is forced medication in the water supply.
     

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