On 12/5/2013 7:10 PM, Pete C. wrote:
>
> Dave Smith wrote:
>>
>> On 2013-12-05 5:18 PM, jmcquown wrote:
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>>> You're assuming I *had* science classes when I was in grade school. I
>>> don't remember any, but we moved a lot and every school was different.
>>> It doesn't matter. I've been drinking fluoridated water all my life.
>>> I'm fine. (And no, I don't swallow toothpaste.)
>>>
>>
>> I may have beat you on the shortest stay in a school. We didn't move a
>> lot but we did when I was half way through grade nine. I had to a
>> school a lot further away because I was taking instrumental music. I
>> only went to that school for one day. I opted to take art instead and
>> went to the one closer to home.
>>
>> As for fluoride... they started to fluoridate the water when I was a
>> kid. My younger brother and I bother ended up needed veneers due to
>> tooth enamel problems. My older brothers did not. They were older when
>> the fluoride was introduced. Not getting on a fluoride conspiracy
>> thing... just saying....
>
> I never said anything about a conspiracy. Fluoride in the water supply
> may have made sense 80 years ago when people couldn't readily get /
> afford fluoride toothpaste. Today fluoride toothpaste is readily
> available and affordable so there is no longer any justification for
> deliberately adding a highly toxic substance to the water supply.
>
Except you haven't convinced me the amount of fluoride in the drinking
water supply *is* toxic. Besides, there is probably fluoride in a lot
of the bottled water sold across the US. So back to the original post
which was about bottled water... you're saying it's safer just because
it comes in a bottle? I'm not buying it.

Jill