Florida County Votes to Remove Fluoride From Drinking Water

[Uncle Wig]

More proof that the "Tea Party" is composed largely of cretins.

""Fluoride is a toxic substance," said Tea Party activist Tony Caso, the Times reported. "This is all part of an agenda that's being pushed forth by the so-called globalists in our government … to keep the people stupid so they don't realize what's going on.""

http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/stor...50673318/1

[kj]

Well, it's technically true. Of course, caffeine is toxic too, as are a lot of things we consume all the time. I like my teeth and bones, so fluoride's cool with me, though. I don't think it's particularly a Tea Party thing though. My high school chemistry teacher told me fluoride was "industrial waste" in the eighties, so the controversy has been around for a while. kj.

[Chakravartin]

Uncle Wig wrote:
More proof that the "Tea Party" is composed largely of cretins.

You immediately assume that the Tea Party is behind this.

Me? I wonder at the lobbying efforts of Florida denture makers.

[RgrF]

kj wrote:
Well, it's technically true. Of course, caffeine is toxic too, as are a lot of things we consume all the time. I like my teeth and bones, so fluoride's cool with me, though. I don't think it's particularly a Tea Party thing though. My high school chemistry teacher told me fluoride was "industrial waste" in the eighties, so the controversy has been around for a while. kj.

It was a John Birch platform back in the sixties. People were led to believe that this societal effort to strengthen teeth in children was a Communist/Socialist plot. Many believed it so, just as their descendants believe almost anything the far right offers them.

John Birchers were once considered so far off the compass as to be a joke (they accused Eisenhower of being Communist), today their progeny rule Republican policy, such as it is. Pure and undeniable evidence of the failure of our educational system.

I blame Pops.

[Pops]

I imagine this will soon be followed by health insurance companies deciding that paying for flouride tabs for kids is "unnecessary".

[cbelt3]

Obviously they took Kubrick's B&W classic seriously. Class them with the 'vaccines are evil' nimrods.

Perhaps there is actually some intelligence... are they all dentists seeking work ?

[Lux Interior]

cbelt3 wrote:
Obviously they took Kubrick's B&W classic seriously.

I don't avoid women.

But I do deny them my essence.

[Pam]

A bunch of people are listening to Dr Mercola

[RgrF]

I lead a deprived existence, who is this Mercola dude?

[Spock]

Its all part of Florida's bid to capture the "Dumbest State" title.

What's next, not adding sanitizer or filtering out sulfur, dangerous idiots.