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(Boston Channel) Interesting Chinese fluoride pulled over fears that it may be contaminating our precious bodily fluids   (thebostonchannel.com) divider line 136
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Mentat [TotalFark]
2010-03-14 06:10:43 PM
img214.imageshack.us
 
Mentat [TotalFark]
2010-03-14 06:11:26 PM
Damnit, stupid ImageShack.

img92.imageshack.us
 
Mugato [TotalFark]
2010-03-14 06:25:39 PM
We still ingest products coming from China? How farking stupid are we?
 
ZAZ [TotalFark]
2010-03-14 06:59:43 PM
"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.
 
calbert [TotalFark]
2010-03-14 07:09:07 PM
I'm more worried about them putting pee-pee in our Coke.
 
Enigmamf
2010-03-14 07:26:50 PM
mattfedder.com

I just had this lying around :)
 
Kumana Wanalaia
2010-03-14 07:27:40 PM
Mugato: We still ingest products coming from China? How farking stupid are we?

Well, since all the lead poisoning...
 
macross87
2010-03-14 07:29:10 PM
We can't afford a mine shaft gap!
 
black_knight
2010-03-14 07:31:43 PM
I see that Communist infiltration, Communist indoctrination, Communist subversion, and the international Communist conspiracy are still going strong.
 
ka1axy
2010-03-14 07:32:01 PM
Mugato: We still ingest products coming from China? How farking stupid are we?

THIS.

Sometimes, buying from the lowest bidder is OK. But sometimes, usually when the lowest bidder is a Chinese firm, you might want to pay a little more and get the product elsewhere. One of those "sometimes' is when you or someone you care about plans to ingest the product.
 
Hector Remarkable
2010-03-14 07:32:05 PM
That's ridicurous.
 
cretinbob [TotalFark]
2010-03-14 07:32:54 PM
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.
 
Wayfarer's Freedom
2010-03-14 07:33:13 PM
www.rense.com
 
davidphogan
2010-03-14 07:36:51 PM
Mentat: img214.imageshack.us

First fail post.

/all in good fun
//there's no fighting in the war room
 
drxym
2010-03-14 07:37:19 PM
If people are paranoid about the sodium flouride maybe they should, I don't know, test it first?
 
Wadded Beef
2010-03-14 07:38:41 PM
Luckily, Amesbury was able to interpret these feelings correctly.
 
budzilla
2010-03-14 07:38:49 PM
Nazi's were the first to use fluoride in prison camps to subdue the populace. Studies also show that in communities with heavy fluoride treatment there is a huge increase in teeth mottling, bone fractures, etc...
 
RottNDude
2010-03-14 07:39:25 PM
"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."

Haven't these morons ever heard of a mass spectrometer?
 
xuanzhiyouxuan
2010-03-14 07:39:52 PM
This story already has everything. You should be horrified.
 
dsade
2010-03-14 07:40:46 PM
So they didn't bother to run a $50 chemical analysis on the powder before adding it to the cities water?

Prosecute for negligence.
 
dsade
2010-03-14 07:41:26 PM
City's


/ugh
 
LeFort III
2010-03-14 07:44:58 PM
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.
 
strathmeyer
2010-03-14 07:54:27 PM
Anti-fluoridation nuts are awesome. Without water flouridation, tooth decay would be our highest health care cost, affecting mainly the poor. Combine that with racism against the Chinese and you get something truly beautiful.
 
Darwin's Prophet
2010-03-14 07:55:44 PM
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.
 
zvoidx
2010-03-14 07:56:02 PM
FTA: Department of Public Works Director Rob Desmarais said after he mixes the white powder with water, 40 percent of it will not dissolve.

It's probably Calgon detergent.
/Ancient Chinese secret, huh?
 
leegalizit
2010-03-14 07:57:03 PM
I'm glad I live in N.H. and am far away from any M.A. water contamination.

/sarcasm off
//No, I don't trust China, given current precedents.
 
StoneColdAtheist
2010-03-14 07:57:10 PM
Looks out across my fields and smiles at my two private wells.
 
Baryogenesis
2010-03-14 08:02:40 PM
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.

Enemas. Lots and lots of enemas.
 
traylor
2010-03-14 08:04:44 PM
strathmeyer: Anti-fluoridation nuts are awesome. Without water flouridation, tooth decay would be our highest health care cost, affecting mainly the poor. Combine that with racism against the Chinese and you get something truly beautiful.

This?

www.spokesmanreview.com
 
RoyBatty
2010-03-14 08:04:55 PM
Mugato: We still ingest products coming from China? How farking stupid are we?

You'll have to answer to the Coca Cola CompanyWorld Trade Organization

(Not sure about this, but I don't think we can simply just refuse import their exports.)
 
RoyBatty
2010-03-14 08:05:33 PM
strathmeyer: Anti-fluoridation nuts are awesome. Without water flouridation, tooth decay would be our highest health care cost, affecting mainly the poor. Combine that with racism against the Chinese and you get something truly beautiful.

I think at this point, the science is settled.
 
Darwin's Prophet
2010-03-14 08:06:49 PM
Baryogenesis: 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.

Enemas. Lots and lots of enemas.

Well that is actually a more effective way to absorb the water.

/and if that's your thing, then umm, that's cool.
 
LeFort III
2010-03-14 08:08:23 PM
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!
 
plumbicon
2010-03-14 08:09:26 PM
Well, somebody better give us the "enemas list".
 
Thakh
2010-03-14 08:09:30 PM
I watched this movie for the first time last week so I have to say.
Epic. Headline. Win.
 
Baryogenesis
2010-03-14 08:09:53 PM
Darwin's Prophet: Baryogenesis: 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.

Enemas. Lots and lots of enemas.

Well that is actually a more effective way to absorb the water.

/and if that's your thing, then umm, that's cool.

It probably doesn't quench your thirst as fast though.
 
RoyBatty
2010-03-14 08:12:36 PM
LeFort III: 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!

Yeah, that's pretty much my view as well.
 
Arthur Two Sheds Jackson
2010-03-14 08:12:46 PM
Attack plan "R" would solve the problem....
 
Baryogenesis
2010-03-14 08:13:21 PM
LeFort III: 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!

You're right. We shouldn't put anything in our water at all. We should just gulp it down straight from natural, completely untainted sources. Oh wait....
 
Fano
2010-03-14 08:15:04 PM
budzilla: Nazi's were the first to use fluoride in prison camps to subdue the populace. Studies also show that in communities with heavy fluoride treatment there is a huge increase in teeth mottling, bone fractures, etc...

Feh. Fluoride doesn't make your teeth stronger, but it does make them show up to satellites.
 
FunkOut [TotalFark]
2010-03-14 08:15:41 PM
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.
 
LeFort III
2010-03-14 08:17:51 PM
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"
 
Curbstomp Jesus
2010-03-14 08:19:11 PM
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.
 
Gyrfalcon [TotalFark]
2010-03-14 08:19:58 PM
"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...
 
UsikFark
2010-03-14 08:21:12 PM
Arthur Two Sheds Jackson: Attack plan "R" would solve the problem....

Pirate Assault Teams?
 
Baryogenesis
2010-03-14 08:21:34 PM
LeFort III: 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"

That is an important distinction. I have to add a minimum level of snark to my posts so they're safe to post on Fark.
 
Fabric_Man
2010-03-14 08:24:52 PM
Baryogenesis: Darwin's Prophet: Baryogenesis: 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.

Enemas. Lots and lots of enemas.

Well that is actually a more effective way to absorb the water.

/and if that's your thing, then umm, that's cool.

It probably doesn't quench your thirst as fast though.

Does it have electrolytes?
 
LeFort III
2010-03-14 08:25:21 PM
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.
 
FunkOut [TotalFark]
2010-03-14 08:26:44 PM
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.
 
Dr. Manhattan
2010-03-14 08:33:18 PM
LeFort III: 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.

This, except you meant hydroxide, not calcium. Calcium and fluoride have neither the same charge, nor magnitude. Fluoride and hydroxide, however, both have single negative charges and are much more chemically similar.
 
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