Damnit, stupid ImageShack.

We still ingest products coming from China? How farking stupid are we?

"I don't know what it is," Desmarais said. "It's not soluble, and it doesn't appear to be sodium fluoride. So we are not quite sure what it is."

My guess is lead sulfate. It's a white powder poorly soluble in water and by mass is mostly China's favorite export.

I'm more worried about them putting pee-pee in our Coke.

We can't afford a mine shaft gap!

Do you realize that in addition to fluoridating water, why, there are studies underway to fluoridate salt, flour, fruit juices, soup, sugar, milk... ice cream. Ice cream, Mandrake, children's ice cream.

Tell me again how ingested Fluoride travels though the bloodstream in high enough levels to be absorbed and then excreted by the saliva glands? And that it won't affect any other organ systems in the process?

I'll take my Fluoride topically, please.

Darwin's Prophet Its through direct contact with your teeth. I don't know how you take your water, but most of us ingest it through our mouths.

Uh, duh. This is what I am saying about topical application. Kids and adults get plenty of Fluoride via toothpaste, gels and rinses that they don't need to have that extra 1 ppm bump in their drinking water. This isn't 1920 anymore; everybody can get plenty of Fluoride now.

/Fluoride advocate
//drinking water additive opponent
///would be happy if people would just figure out which end of the toothbrush to use...sheesh!

Darwin's Prophet: LeFort III: Tell me again how ingested Fluoride travels though the bloodstream in high enough levels to be absorbed and then excreted by the saliva glands? And that it won't affect any other organ systems in the process?

I'll take my Fluoride topically, please.

Its through direct contact with your teeth. I don't know how you take your water, but most of us ingest it through our mouths.

Sodium fluoride isn't really meant to continually ingested. It is toxic and that's not just conspiracy gobbleygook. The containers have poison labels on them at the toothpaste manufacturing plants. Kids who have eaten toothpaste have died from fluoride poisoning, which is why there's a warning on toothpaste tubes. It's also a byproduct of aluminium smelting, which for some reason I don't find appetizing.

Relax, Baryogenesis, I don't mean nothing at all should ever be in our water. I guess I should have put "//Fluoride as a drinking water additive opponent"

"I don't know what it is," Desmarais said. "It's not soluble, and it doesn't appear to be sodium fluoride. So we are not quite sure what it is."

ANTHRAX! WE'RE ALL GONNA DIE!

Surprised nobody thought of that one yet...


/crack isn't water soluble either, come to think of it...

Fano, it can make your teeth stronger. Fluoride is more electonegative than Calcium, and it replaces the Ca in the hydroxyapetite molecule, making the hydroxyapetite more resistant to acidic breakdown.

At least, that's how it works on paper. In real life, people can't bother to wipe the schmutz off their teeth every morning and then they get pissed when they get a cavity thinking that the magic of Fluoride would have saved them.

Curbstomp Jesus: They tried to Fluoridate our city's water supply a couple years ago but the conspiracy-theorists, hippies, and fearful ignorant douchebags who claimed it was "poisonous" and "dangerous" were able to win and vote it down just because they were able to yell their message of stupidity louder. Kind of like the teabaggers/fox news.

Everyone gets fluoride in toothpaste these days. There's no need for it in water. Well, infants and toddlers don't get it, the "baby" toothpaste has no fluoride because they tend to swallow the toothpaste and sodium fluoride can kill or seriously harm a child. That's what all the child care books say, that's what dentists and doctors say, and that's what the side of the toothpaste tube/package says. It's poisonous to ingest.

For your city should go through the trouble to fluoridate the water for the very small percentage who don't brush...that just seems like a waste of money.