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September 17th 2009, 12:22 PM
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Bard He/Him Netherlands
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Also, fluoride is good for your' teeth.

That's what the communists at the head of the scheme want you to think, which means they have power over you. Sodium Fluoride is used in Rat Poison. A tube of Colgate will kill a baby. Do some research before you shoot off crap by toothpaste companies.

Communists? You think communists work together with toothpaste companies to poison us? That seems a bit far fetched.

What I have heard (a couple of years ago) is that there is an ion exchange reaction that replaces the hydroxide groups in Hydroxylapatite with fluoride. The (partial) reaction being:

Ca5(PO4)3(OH) + F- -> Ca5(PO4)3F + OH-

It is known that cavities come from bacteria in the mouth who live of sugar and have acidic waste products which damage the teeth. When the Hydroxylapatite is fluoridated it becomes much less sensitive to acids, slowing down the rate at which the teeth decay. I don't know for you, but for me this reaction sounds pretty logical, fluoride being more electronegative than hydroxide.

I looked shortly into the toxicity of fluoride, and a simple calculation seems to indicate that a person weighing 75 kilograms would need to drink at least 4000 liters of water in one go to have had enough fluorine to reach the lowest observed lethal dose. And this is using water that has been fluoridated to the maximum set by US law. And if you drink 4000 liters of water in one go you'd have other things to worry about.

Though I must admit that it seems that a tube of Colgate might actually contains enough fluoride to kill a 2kg baby under optimal conditions. (Optimal meaning that the toothpaste contains no additional elements with a high affinity for fluoride (such as calcium), as well as that the baby must be quite weak.) But feeding your baby an entire tube of Colgate to a baby is just irresponsible behavior. You could have predicted that one.

And I've also looked into the statement that fluoride is a mind control substance, and to my surprise found out that there might be a relation between insomnia/headaches and high concentrations of fluoride in drinking water. But I found no reason to see that it can actually be used for mind control. If 2% rather than 1.5% of the population suffers from insomnia this isn't going to conquer the world.