You bought into the fluoridation PR. There is no evidence that fluoridation is the reason for declining tooth decay in the past. During the same period, foods were fortified rickets preventing vitamin D, a symptom of vitamin D deficiency is tooth decay.

Fluoride is neither a nutrient nor essential for healthy teeth. Having a fluoride "deficienc" will not cause tooth decay, although those early public health officials thought it was.

They also thought that fluoride had to be ingested to prevent tooth decay. However, fluoride ingestion only leads to side effects such as bone and tooth damage. Fluoride's tooth hardening effects only occur topically.

After over 60 years of fluoridation reach 2/3 of US public water supplies and virtually 100% of the food and beverage supply and a glut of fluoridated dental products on the market, tooth decay is at crisis level

At the same time fluoride overdose symptoms - dental fluorosis - white spotted,yellow, brown and/or pitted enamel is occuring in up to 41% of US school children which dentist gleefully cover with hugely expensive cosmetic dentistry often not covered by any insurance.

Over 1600 professionals and almost 11,000 petition signers now urge congress to stop floridation because the evidence shows it cause more harm han good

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Who bought into what PR?

Funny, I'm not seeing any actual data there....no studies.....just a bunch of overblown rhetoric from the trog side of life.

Do you know when they started flouridation of our water? 1946.

How's that for a commie conspiracy?

A foreign agent is being introduced into our water where it is infiltrating our precious bodily fluids.

Of course you're right. Flouride was once thought to be a vampire repellant. Not only did that not work, the vamps discovered that their fangs were nice and shiny for longer!

Dang! Now what are we going to do? Eat lots of transfats so the werewolves will all have heart attacks?

Where will it end?!

I guess Dr. Strangelove is no longer part of the collective pysche.

I was born too late, dammit!

*slink off to watch Kenneth Branaugh*

Aaww...don't slink off! I was just watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer before I posted that.

Sadly, the under-40 set has never seen Dr. Strangelove, and if they do, they don't get it. It was on cable the other night, too, so it's not as if they haven't had a chance to watch it, either.

I actually miss all the whacked out conspiracy nonsense. It made for some fun satire.

Well, I've seen two movies that dared to let the nuclear holocaust happen--Dr. Strangelove and Terminator 3. Yeah. Slight difference of intelligence and quality there.

I was talking to one of my friends today. He's about three years older than me, and possibly because of the two long beach teas I had for lunch, I went off on my anti-baby boomer rant. I'll spare you the histronic details, but the essentials go:

My generation will spend my entire life paying for social security and medicare for aging babyboomers and will see no money from those programs. We will have a crumbling infrastructure, global warming, energy crises, incredible national debt. Supposedly these baby boomers were the best generation ever: the most politically active, the most sucessful, the greatest idealists. Seems like most of the country thinks that one of our two baby boomer presidents was Jesus returned. (obviously, there are differences as to which one)

And my generation? To hear some of these commentators talk, we're a bunch of lazy good for nothings. Boy, that really makes me want to make money to pay for their retirements since they were too short sighted to save for it themselves. I really want to go be a lawyer and pay my taxes so they can slowly and expensively die on my paycheck. Honestly, one of my big reasons for being an Obama supporter is that he's not a damn baby boomer!!

Sorry, rant over. I do like many of the older movies, though most of the New American Cinema doesn't really work for me. I don't need a passion play, but I like a movie with a message that is ultimately uplifting in some way. Dr. Strangelove -- keep morons like this out of positions of command because people really are this stupid. Citizen Kane -- people who don't feel loved screw their lives up to get that love. (And btw, don't piss off media moguls if you want a career in movies!)

The Graduate -- umm, goes back to the biblical injunction to not screw a mother and her daughter? Really, I can't stand that movie. The only character that has any backbone or control over life is Mrs. Robinson, and she's a bit sociopathic. And I think that movie has the closest scene I've ever seen (ha) to a woman raping a man. Though while I understand the difference between an actor and their character, I still laugh at the idea that Mel Brooks married Mrs. Robinson.