Grassroots protest = Alternative Health product company Astroturf!

[semillama]

Have you guys checked out this week's eSkeptic post? if not, check it out.

http://www.skeptic.com/eskeptic/08-05-28.html

I'll let one of you regular Health Scare lounge posters post this over there...

[Warpy]

1. Hey, we've already got one screaming about fluoridation

on a completely unrelated thread about the decline in average height over the last 30 years.

I'm sure one of the screechers will pick this one up before the end of next week.

[TZ]

2. Really fluoridation causes shrinkage?

Thats a new one. I would post this, but I'm busy with a flame war with one woo already today..I can only take so much....:crazy:

[Warpy]

3. I did one snark today, but it was in A&A

It hit its target and I wisely avoided the follow up.

Others picked up the standard.

[madinmaryland]

4. Flouride causes shorter people??

:wtf:

I thought it made for stronger enamel on your teeth.

:shrug:

[TZ]

5. If you ever feel like a laugh...

Go to either the 9/11 forum (the conspiracy room Midlo calls it) or Health and "learn" how fluroide in the water is teh evul! Apparantly its all a conspiracy by Big Dental to mind control us....:rofl:

[madinmaryland]

6. Ooh! I stay far away from the 9/11 forum! Thank god Skinner moved that crap

out of GD!

Interesting that Big Dental would push a product that will give people stronger teeth! :wtf:

At least that is my understanding, that it creates stronger tooth enamel. Not that I am representative, but at 47 I have had two cavities and grew up on flouridated water and took flouride tablets until i was seven. Oh wait, maybe that's why i keep confusing you with Tony Romo!!1!!

:hi:

[Random_Australian]

7. Actually, it makes teeth insensitive to the acid you get from the breakdown of sugards by bacteria.

As well as any other kind of food acid that reaches your teeth.

Your teeth uses hydroxyapatite, which has an OH group. This can combine with the H from acid to form H20, allowing the tooth to dissolve.

Flouridation replaces some of the OH with F, which will not do the same.

It also means it takes longer to dissolve in water, but that wasn't so much of a problem. Actually, it makes them more insoluble in nearly anything.

However, it also makes it more brittle. This is a legitimate concern with the ageing population (because it affects bones as well as teeth), but there is currently no data on the subject.

That was drive-by science with R_A.

[realisticphish]

8. you chemists, with your facts

btw, butt candle

[TZ]

9. ....

I'd forgotten about that one....:spray:

[Random_Australian]

10. btw,

Like the sunshine? Maybe you want a closer look at the source.

A lot closer. I'm thinking about ten metres.:grr:

[realisticphish]

11. your confusing threat aside

this was the first time in a while i had seen you post, so when else could I mention it

[TZ]

12. I can translate aussie....

I think he's threatening to hurl you into the sun...:D
Realisticphish is hot stuff....:D

[realisticphish]

13. i got that much

but why 10 meters :shrug:

crazy non-americans

[Random_Australian]

14. Well, with flares reaching out several earth radii, it seemed rather overkill

to only put you nine meters from the sun.

:shrug:

Isn't it obvious now that I've pointed it out?

[TZ]

16. Well....

I should say you live up to your nick rather well my Random friend.....:)

[Random_Australian]

15. How about after lunchtime?

Specifically, lunchtime a thousand years from now?