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Australia declares fluoride completely safe

  • 21-09-2016 8:47pm
    #1
    Mint Aero
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,570 ✭✭✭


    Australia’s National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) finally released its verdict on fluoride in drinking water. Analysis of 60 years worth of research and 3000 studies — the largest and most comprehensive study to date — revealed that fluoride in drinking water does not cause cancer or lower a person’s IQ, under the levels used in Australia.

    Tl:Dr Derp water safe drink durrrrrrrr


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  • #2
    zl1whqvjs75cdy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,042 ✭✭✭zl1whqvjs75cdy


    What level do they use in Australia compared to here.


  • #3
    Mint Aero
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,570 ✭✭✭Mint Aero


    donkeyoaty0099 wrote: »
    What level do they use in Australia compared to here.

    Ah sure who'd be bolloxing round with that. Just sheeeeeer up and do what Phil Hogan tells ya


  • #4
    GLaDOS
    Moderators, Regional East Moderators Posts: 23,238 Mod ✭✭✭✭GLaDOS


    Well that's that settled once and for all.

    Cake, and grief counseling, will be available at the conclusion of the test



  • #5
    Skylinehead
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,690 ✭✭✭✭Skylinehead


    Wake up sheeple, or something


  • #6
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    donkeyoaty0099 wrote: »
    What level do they use in Australia compared to here.

    1.5ppm compared to 1.0ppm here.

    Edit. Now down to 0.6 - 0.7 here.


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  • #7
    Fr_Dougal
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,166 ✭✭✭Fr_Dougal


    Fluoride can't melt steel beams.


  • #8
    Samaris
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,544 ✭✭✭Samaris


    The amount of fluoride used in drinking water is well below the limits considered safe for humans (given you also get fluoride from other things, such as toothpaste, it -has- to be well below those limits.)

    Poison is not so much substance as it is dosage. -Water- (without fluoride!) is "poisonous" in large enough quantities.


  • #9
    PirateShampoo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,406 ✭✭✭PirateShampoo


    I've lived in Australia, the not lowering of I.Q's is certainly debatable.


  • #10
    Cookie_Monster
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,537 ✭✭✭✭Cookie_Monster


    in other news, the sky is blue, earth orbits the sun, and everything in Australia is out to kill you, EVERYTHING!


  • #11
    GLaDOS
    Moderators, Regional East Moderators Posts: 23,238 Mod ✭✭✭✭GLaDOS


    Cookie_Monster wrote: »
    and everything in Australia is out to kill you, EVERYTHING!

    Well, not the fluoride

    Cake, and grief counseling, will be available at the conclusion of the test



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  • #12
    Grayson
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,472 ✭✭✭✭Grayson


    in other news Obama is American. Who would have thought?


  • #13
    darkpagandeath
    Closed Accounts Posts: 24,465 ✭✭✭✭darkpagandeath


    If it controls your mind and makes you passive why don't we put in the the ME water supply ?


  • #14
    Capt'n Midnight
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 93,567 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    Fr_Dougal wrote: »
    Fluoride can't melt steel beams.
    Actually steel beams burst into flames upon contact with fluorine.


  • #15
    Ted111
    Closed Accounts Posts: 990 ✭✭✭Ted111


    It tends to float to the top of the glass in australia. The bottom here.


  • #16
    GLaDOS
    Moderators, Regional East Moderators Posts: 23,238 Mod ✭✭✭✭GLaDOS


    Capt'n Midnight wrote: »
    Actually steel beams burst into flames upon contact with fluorine.

    Are you suggesting the terrorists actually used blimps full of fluoride instead of planes in 9/11?

    Its so crazy, it just might work.

    Cake, and grief counseling, will be available at the conclusion of the test



  • #17
    LeinsterDub
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,229 ✭✭✭LeinsterDub


    I'd be more worried about our lead pipes than fluoride


  • #18
    GLaDOS
    Moderators, Regional East Moderators Posts: 23,238 Mod ✭✭✭✭GLaDOS


    LeinsterDub wrote: »
    I'd be more worried about our lead pipes than fluoride

    Not to mention the cryptosporidium

    Cake, and grief counseling, will be available at the conclusion of the test



  • #19
    Ted111
    Closed Accounts Posts: 990 ✭✭✭Ted111


    any sort of foreign agent introduced into our precious bodily fluids.


  • #20
    Barry Badrinath
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,460 ✭✭✭Barry Badrinath


    GLaDOS wrote: »
    Not to mention the cryptosporidium

    Thats my favourite.


  • #21
    Cianmcliam
    Closed Accounts Posts: 715 ✭✭✭Cianmcliam


    Giuliana Gray Ugliness wrote: »
    1.5ppm compared to 1.0ppm here.

    We are down to a target of 0.7ppm here, varying from 0.6 to 0.8.


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  • #22
    Annasopra
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 41,157 ✭✭✭✭Annasopra


    Mint Aero wrote: »
    Australia’s National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) finally released its verdict on fluoride in drinking water. Analysis of 60 years worth of research and 3000 studies — the largest and most comprehensive study to date — revealed that fluoride in drinking water does not cause cancer or lower a person’s IQ, under the levels used in Australia.

    Tl:Dr Derp water safe drink durrrrrrrr

    Good.

    I completely support flouridated water here and the conspiracy theorists have run out of any credible arguments.

    It was so much easier to blame it on Them. It was bleakly depressing to think that They were Us. If it was Them, then nothing was anyone's fault. If it was us, what did that make Me? After all, I'm one of Us. I must be. I've certainly never thought of myself as one of Them. No one ever thinks of themselves as one of Them. We're always one of Us. It's Them that do the bad things.

    Terry Pratchet



  • #23
    Capt'n Midnight
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 93,567 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    GLaDOS wrote: »
    Are you suggesting the terrorists actually used blimps full of fluoride instead of planes in 9/11?

    Its so crazy, it just might work.
    Of course not. :rolleyes:




    It's not a lifting gas. Hydrogen Fluoride is. AKA hydrofluric acid , and we all know what acid can do to steel


  • #24
    Maximus Alexander
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,080 ✭✭✭✭Maximus Alexander


    Capt'n Midnight wrote: »
    It's not a lifting gas. Hydrogen Fluoride is. AKA hydrofluric acid , and we all know what acid can do to steel

    Make it have really vivid visual and aural hallucinations?


  • #25
    Pa994
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 67 ✭✭Pa994


    LeinsterDub wrote: »
    I'd be more worried about our lead pipes than fluoride

    I'd be more worried about our asbestos pipes...


  • #26
    endacl
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,410 ✭✭✭✭endacl


    Australian fluoride researchers shot Kennedy. But not on the moon? While spraying chemtrails?


  • #27
    Cookie_Monster
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,537 ✭✭✭✭Cookie_Monster


    GLaDOS wrote: »
    Well, not the fluoride

    Ah, that's what the want you to believe. They also say drop bears aren't real but we all know better.


  • #28
    uch
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,020 ✭✭✭uch


    Lads nobody has mentioned the cake yet !
    Them Aussie cakes are not good for you, you need good aul custard slices to keep you safe

    21/25



  • #29
    Clampdown
    Closed Accounts Posts: 423 ✭✭Clampdown


    I remember an Aussie fella who told me stingrays were safe. Turned out that wasn't true though.


  • #30
    Esel
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,084 ✭✭✭✭Esel
    Not Your Ornery Onager


    GLaDOS wrote: »
    Are you suggesting the terrorists actually used blimps full of fluoride instead of planes in 9/11?

    Its so crazy, it just might work.

    Fluorine. Try to keep up. :)

    Not your ornery onager



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  • #31
    kneemos
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,591 ✭✭✭✭kneemos


    Aussie scientists eh ?


  • #32
    fergiesfolly
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,443 ✭✭✭fergiesfolly


    Grayson wrote: »
    in other news Obama is American. Who would have thought?

    Well, not Donald Trump for starters.


  • #33
    Capt'n Midnight
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 93,567 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    Maximus Alexander wrote: »
    Make it have really vivid visual and aural hallucinations?
    Make it's teeth strong.


  • #34
    Mousewar
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,741 ✭✭✭Mousewar


    Hmmm, I wonder how many dollarydoos those chazwuzzas were given to make that announcement.


  • #35
    MrVestek
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,258 ✭✭✭MrVestek


    So... do we have a link to said article then?


  • #36
    kneemos
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,591 ✭✭✭✭kneemos


    MrVestek wrote: »
    So... do we have a link to said article then?


    There is, but it's tenuous.


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  • #37
    GLaDOS
    Moderators, Regional East Moderators Posts: 23,238 Mod ✭✭✭✭GLaDOS


    Esel wrote: »
    Fluorine. Try to keep up. :)

    I was quite giddy last night and not paying a whole lot of attention :pac:

    Cake, and grief counseling, will be available at the conclusion of the test



  • #38
    thomasm
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,503 ✭✭✭thomasm


    MrVestek wrote: »
    So... do we have a link to said article then?

    https://www.scimex.org/__data/assets/file/0017/106523/16399-NHMRC-Fluoride-Information.pdf


  • #39
    gramar
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,045 ✭✭✭✭gramar


    endacl wrote: »
    Australian fluoride researchers shot Kennedy. But not on the moon? While spraying chemtrails?

    No..no..no.....They shot the moon and travelled to Kennedy.


  • #40
    SEPT 23 1989
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 43,028 ✭✭✭✭SEPT 23 1989


    Bigfoot shot Kennedy


  • #41
    LeinsterDub
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,229 ✭✭✭LeinsterDub


    Pa994 wrote: »
    I'd be more worried about our asbestos pipes...

    We damn more asbestos. More asbestos! More asbestos!


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  • #42
    whatdoicare
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,398 ✭✭✭whatdoicare


    So, where do we stand with the rule of "If it's brown drink it down, if it's black send it back"?


  • #43
    Annasopra
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 41,157 ✭✭✭✭Annasopra


    whatdoicare wrote: »
    So, where do we stand with the rule of "If it's brown drink it down, if it's black send it back"?

    If it has flouride its good. End of story.

    It was so much easier to blame it on Them. It was bleakly depressing to think that They were Us. If it was Them, then nothing was anyone's fault. If it was us, what did that make Me? After all, I'm one of Us. I must be. I've certainly never thought of myself as one of Them. No one ever thinks of themselves as one of Them. We're always one of Us. It's Them that do the bad things.

    Terry Pratchet



  • #44
    artanevilla
    Moderators, Education Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 10,973 Mod ✭✭✭✭artanevilla


    I'm more worried about the Dihydrogen Monoxide, there's a much greater quantity than flouride in our drinking water.


  • #45
    gctest50
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,605 ✭✭✭gctest50


    Seems if you flouridate their water the little worker drones need less days off:
    Evidence on the cost-effectiveness of water fluoridation was systematically reviewed in 2015. This study found:
      • The annual cost of providing water fluoridation ranged from [FONT=Times New Roman, serif]$[/FONT]0.11 to [FONT=Times New Roman, serif]$[/FONT]4.92 per person for communities with at least 1,000 population.
      • The annual savings ranged from [FONT=Times New Roman, serif]$[/FONT]5.49 to [FONT=Times New Roman, serif]$[/FONT]93.19 per person in avoided costs such as health care savings and avoided days off work.

      Be better to feed them better but the boys in the sugar industry would whine


    1. #46
      Annasopra
      Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 41,157 ✭✭✭✭Annasopra


      artanevilla wrote: »
      I'm more worried about the Dihydrogen Monoxide, there's a much greater quantity than flouride in our drinking water.

      Thats good for you too

      It was so much easier to blame it on Them. It was bleakly depressing to think that They were Us. If it was Them, then nothing was anyone's fault. If it was us, what did that make Me? After all, I'm one of Us. I must be. I've certainly never thought of myself as one of Them. No one ever thinks of themselves as one of Them. We're always one of Us. It's Them that do the bad things.

      Terry Pratchet



    2. #47
      Maximus Alexander
      Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,080 ✭✭✭✭Maximus Alexander


      Joeytheparrot wrote: »
      Thats good for you too

      Open your eyes! Have you any idea how many deaths annually are directly attributable to DHMO? It can lead to asphyxiation if inhaled and can be toxic when ingested in large quantities!


    3. #48
      Dohnjoe
      Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,531 ✭✭✭✭Dohnjoe


      gctest50 wrote: »
      Seems if you flouridate their water the little worker drones need less days off:

      Well obviously, it would mean less trips to the dentist, which would equal slightly more productivity = slightly better economy = more beneficial for the evil corporations man everyone


    4. #49
      osarusan
      Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,733 ✭✭✭✭osarusan


      gctest50 wrote: »
      Seems if you flouridate their water the little worker drones need less days off:
      They have become passive as a result of the damage done to their bodily essence. A profound sense of fatigue and emptiness as a result of the impurification of their precious bodily fluids.


    5. #50
      Capt'n Midnight
      Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 93,567 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


      artanevilla wrote: »
      I'm more worried about the Dihydrogen Monoxide, there's a much greater quantity than flouride in our drinking water.
      And it's got a higher PH than hydrofluric acid


    6. #51
      Capt'n Midnight
      Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 93,567 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


      SEPT 23 1989 wrote: »
      Bigfoot shot Kennedy
      But he didn't kill him. Last I heard Kennedy was retired to a ranch in Montana.


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