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50. Another dental story with a broader moral about institutional failure, here.

Sun Dec 1, 2013, 12:41 PM

Dec 2013

IMO, institutional failure, above, as in it's a reasonable expectation for a dental professional to expect the ADA to study, review and assess products, rather than the individual practitioner. (Analogously, it's a reasonable expectation by a citizen to expect fact-finding commissions to be thorough and accurate.)

Institutional failure, below, well, check out the players. Red flags galore. Where were the state dental boards? (I stumbled across the terrible story a couple of days ago, though it's old news.)

http://www.nieman.harvard.edu/reports/article/100963/Revealing-How-Dentists-Profit-By-Abusing-Children.aspx

Roberta Baskin, a 2002 Nieman Fellow, has won more than 75 journalism awards and serves on the boards of the Journalism & Women Symposium, Images & Voices of Hope, International Communications Forum-America, the Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Awards Committee, and the Nieman Foundation’s Advisory Board. “Drilling for Dollars” won a 2009 Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Award.

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I read this entire OP. Honestly, I did. Where's the aspirin???..LOL.. monmouth3 Dec 2013 #1

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You're exactly right about the flinging and slinging of preposterous theories. Zen Democrat Dec 2013 #2

K&R #5. Very good, thank you. Egalitarian Thug Dec 2013 #3

Beats the crap out of me... PCIntern Dec 2013 #4

LOL & Thanks. Egalitarian Thug Dec 2013 #8

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Did you read the article PCIntern wrote? Egalitarian Thug Dec 2013 #15

All gold in my mouth. nt msanthrope Dec 2013 #5

Rambling and nonsensical. Spider Jerusalem Dec 2013 #6

Yes...absolutely... PCIntern Dec 2013 #7

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What point is that? Spider Jerusalem Dec 2013 #10

You're doing it again! PCIntern Dec 2013 #12

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Don't bother to give me that innocence stuff... PCIntern Dec 2013 #16

I don't see very much reason there. Spider Jerusalem Dec 2013 #20

You don't see it so it doesn't exist. PCIntern Dec 2013 #34

I don't see it because it's not there. Spider Jerusalem Dec 2013 #35

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self absorbed is more like it, also heaven05 Dec 2013 #46

And I thought there was no conspiracy until I began to read about it myself a few years ago. sabrina 1 Dec 2013 #17

I find that difficult to believe. DanTex Dec 2013 #23

there is plenty heaven05 Dec 2013 #44

Yet another CTer speaking in abstract terms about "counter evidence" that's out there somewhere... DanTex Dec 2013 #51

when you finally wake up heaven05 Dec 2013 #54

Ad hominem attack, check. Evidence, still missing... DanTex Dec 2013 #55

aww heaven05 Dec 2013 #56

I don't care what you 'find hard to believe'. Show me comments from me on this issue sabrina 1 Dec 2013 #62

I think that if you had actually read about it, you would have some actual evidence. DanTex Dec 2013 #64

I never said there was evidence of a second gunman. I have repeatedly stated that who actually sabrina 1 Dec 2013 #71

Last post, you said "the most flawed 'finding' of the WC was that Oswald was a 'lone gunman'." DanTex Dec 2013 #72

Oh my. PC Intern's OP was anything but "rambling & nonsensical". pacalo Dec 2013 #88

Right ON! Celebration Dec 2013 #13

Actually, yes, there is such a thing as science. DanTex Dec 2013 #22

no, still doesn't work for me Celebration Dec 2013 #25

His own words and actions from age 15 or so onward? Spider Jerusalem Dec 2013 #31

'nuf said Celebration Dec 2013 #53

According to LHO, he was a marxist. DanTex Dec 2013 #49

any fingerprints on the gun? Celebration Dec 2013 #57

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you need to actually read the link from my post re: the palm print Celebration Dec 2013 #67

I did. Especially this part. DanTex Dec 2013 #69

Reasons to believe that Oswald was not CIA. DanTex Dec 2013 #61

Oh look.... Ichingcarpenter Dec 2013 #26

I keep hearing about the supposed "facts" that "we have." DanTex Dec 2013 #41

So the mercury in Oswald's fillings made him a patsy. Got it. Orrex Dec 2013 #18

Very interesting article. MH1 Dec 2013 #19

Yes, well done, sometimes noise is the goal. bemildred Dec 2013 #21

What gives you the right to call faked moon-landings "wacky"? DanTex Dec 2013 #24

There you go again. Nt PCIntern Dec 2013 #27

Dodging questions, providing no evidence... DanTex Dec 2013 #74

You have missed the entire point of the OP PCIntern Dec 2013 #75

Whatever you do, just make sure you don't provide any evidence... DanTex Dec 2013 #76

Again you're entirely missing the point PCIntern Dec 2013 #78

You're doing great! Zero evidence! You're really getting the hang of denialism! DanTex Dec 2013 #79

Nice try. Next time try this with PCIntern Dec 2013 #80

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Laugh my ass PCIntern Dec 2013 #36

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Point to it. Spider Jerusalem Dec 2013 #40

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Your disdain for facts is noted... Dr Hobbitstein Dec 2013 #85

thank you heaven05 Dec 2013 #89

still is! heaven05 Dec 2013 #39

Thank you, PCIntern! Outstanding allegory... Octafish Dec 2013 #29

Wow. Thanks!! Nt PCIntern Dec 2013 #32

That is why Dems can't easily persuade the people: the Repubs are clever tblue37 Dec 2013 #47

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Oxygen-Starved Brains Can Only Function So Long. Octafish Dec 2013 #92

thank you heaven05 Dec 2013 #37

excellent! thank you. n/t wildbilln864 Dec 2013 #45

Another dental story with a broader moral about institutional failure, here. proverbialwisdom Dec 2013 #50

Epic flawed analogy. The Midway Rebel Dec 2013 #59

Very funny. Humorous post of the month! Nt PCIntern Dec 2013 #60

Actually, I find Orrex's reply in this thread to be much funnier than my reply. The Midway Rebel Dec 2013 #63

MK Ultra was run by a bunch of dentists? Paulie Dec 2013 #65

Have you ever heard of a thing called fluoridation? Fluoridation of water? Orrex Dec 2013 #70

Agree 'in theory' that the American people are being bombarded with bullshit; but you omitted this: freshwest Dec 2013 #73

I had all my metal fillings removed and replaced with composite ca. 2000. I shouldn't have read WinkyDink Dec 2013 #82

So far so good right? PCIntern Dec 2013 #84

The mercury put in US fillings Ichingcarpenter Dec 2013 #86

I hear you. nt PCIntern Dec 2013 #87

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