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The health hazards of fluoride

Alvin E. Sylvain <asylv...@felix.uucp>

In article <6...@lifia.imag.fr> p...@lifia.UUCP (Philippe Schnoebelen) writes:
>In article <1...@dalek.UUCP> s...@dalek.UUCP (Seth J. Bradley) writes:
>>One response to the anti-fluoridation people I've never seen refuted:

>[though it's easy. Witness... :-]

>>1. "Natural" water sources, such as uncontaminated mountain streams,
>>have substantial fluoride levels.

>This one is NATURAL fluoride. It is good for your health.

>>2. Water processing plants remove most of the naturally ocurring
>>fuoride as part of the purification process.
[ ... ]
>They add ARTIFICIAL, cancer-giving, chemicals. As is well-known.

>You compare natural products with their poisonous industrial counterparts
>as if they were the same. You can't fool us with your rhetorical tricks.
>You really deserve to be drowned in ARTIFICIAL water.

>--Philippe :-)

I'm sorry, but somebone's going to have to explain to me the difference
between a NATURAL chemical and an ARTIFICIAL chemical.

It reminds me of all the crap one hears about SEA SALT
(NaCl, with some Iodine added for a reason I've forgotten)
versus NORMAL, AVERAGE, RUN-OF-THE-MILL, EVERYDAY TABLE-SALT
(NaCl, with some Iodine added for a reason I've forgotten).

(For the un-initiated, NaCl stands for Sodium-Chloride, the chemical
 name for what is usually known as table salt.)

Then there's esoteric, expensive Vitamin C from ROSE HIPS (ascorbic acid)
vs. everyday, cheap Vitamin C from SOME FACTORY IN DETROIT (ascorbic acid).

(Well, gee, I must admit, "rose hips" sure does sound better!
 But, nevertheless, it's still the same identical thing.)

Oh, while we're at it, let's not forget how we can be drowned in
ARTIFICIAL WATER (H2O plus miscellaneous trace elements) versus
NATURAL WATER (H2O plus miscellaneous trace elements)

Unless you can tell me this difference, the argument of whether the
chemical is natural or artificial has absolutely nothing to do with
whether it's good for me or bad for me.

A chemical is a chemical.  It's "quantity of naturalness" as measured
by some typical health-food fanatic is totally irrelevant.
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