Yesterday, I wrote about Secure Arkansas was freaking out over a bill they swear is in the works to put flouride in the water. This despite the fact that no such bill seems to be on the radar in the legislature thus far and the fact that we already enjoy the benefits of flouride in our drinking water…Well, you guys remember Loy Mauch right? The member of the secessionist hate group who’s election has embarrassed Arkansas and who the Republican Party has welcomed with open arms? Well, he’s donned his tinfoil hat and come to the rescue with his first bill of the session. Secure Arkansas can’t praise it enough:
HB1205 has been filed today! HB1205 is critical for the health and welfare of the citizens of Arkansas. HB1205 could be one of the most important bills filed this session. Secure Arkansas backs this bill wholeheartedly and needs your help to get it passed.
This bill circumvents rhetoric and endorsements and goes directly to accountability for the water/people treatment product delivered. In recent years there had been many inconsistencies about the contents of the products currently used for the treatment of tooth decay via the water supply. We believe that consumers have the right to know what a product contains, whether it is safe for all to consume and where it came from. Disclosure of content, contamination and origin are essential for us to have any confidence in chemicals being added to our water for treatment of any disease. HB1205 will insure that the regulations of Standard 60 (FEDERAL and STATE laws) be followed exactly. In short, it lets the facts declare themselves.
Now that all sounds nice, but as jsamuel pointed out, they’re responding to a crisis that doesn’t exist except in their heads.
A more level headed discussion of Fluoridation levels in drinking water:
LATimes BlogAccording to the Centers for Disease Control, a 1986-87 study showed that nearly 23% of children ages 12 to 15 had fluorosis. That rose to 41% in a study that covered 1999 through 2004. “It is not the water that’s causing this,” said Dr. Robert Barsley, a professor at Louisiana State University’s Health Sciences Center School of Dentistry. “It’s the extra fluoride products — toothpaste, mouthwash — that people are using. And people want nice white teeth so they brush three times a day.”
If they want to focus on the stuff going into the water we’re drinking, maybe they ought to worry less about flouride and that big bad scary federal government and focus more on companies that are blatantly pouring poison into our lakes, streams, and groundwater.
This is what we get in Arkansas for being so angry at the black guy running the White House for wanting to help us get health insurance-the nuts have taken over the nuthouse. On the plus side, the Arkansas Republican Party is now the anti-flouride conspiracy party, thanks to their embrace of a hate group member like Mauch and the crazy that is the tea party/Secure Arkansas.
“This despite the fact that no such bill seems to be on the radar in the legislature thus far and the fact that we already enjoy the benefits of flouride in our drinking water…”
You’re not helping your case that we should all cancel our subscriptions to the Dem-Gaz. They had the full story on this proposal yesterday. Sen. David Johnson wants to require all water providers who service more than 5,000 customers to have fluoride in their water. Most Arkansas communities have it, but there are plenty who don’t.
Lol, touche!
However, my larger point to that argument is that we need to fund an alternative to the state’s print version of Fox News. You know, one that won’t lie for politicians like Tim Griffin.
Well, you’ll certainly get no argument from me about Griffin. Despicable, the way they kissed his a**.
The point I have attempted to make, inartfully I’ll admit, on the D-G, is that with them providing a right wing slant to things, not just in their opinions but in what they cover and how they cover it, we really could stand to invest in a progressive alternative like the Arkansas Times. At the very least, I’m hoping that maybe seeing people in other media outlits blast them for that sort of thing and encouraging people to spend there money else where might dissuade the folks running the D-G of certain behaviors.
In my MSDS Chemical Reference book… fluoride is classified as a deadly poison. I want you to read the entry here: http://www.sciencelab.com/msds.php?msdsId=9927595
http://www.nofluoride.com/
And please prove to me that fluoride is not a cumulative poison… But it is a poison, even in 2 parts per million dilution it can cause bone cancer, especially in children, IQ reduction, brittle bones, fragile hips and a host of other problems in human populations. Almost all 1st world nations have banned it’s use many years ago for these very reasons..
The Character assassinations and BS politics over fluoride being good for you with no real science or studies to back it up is disgusting. I have enjoyed clean drinking water for many years in Arkansas and now they are going to dump toxic waste from fertilizer plants (Fluoride) into our water supplies. “Poisoning the Well” is a nice analogy for what is happening. This is criminal and those responsible are criminals. I can also imagine individuals making a lot of money on the fluoride ‘deal’, money will change hands, and harm the public health.
But hey if fluoride was good enough to sedate and poison the poor unfortunate Nazi prisoners in WWII then I guess it’s good enough for the people of Arkansas right? You pro-fluoride proponents are monsters.