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What I find incredibly scary about threads like this is the out-of-hand dismissal of scientific evidence, and the insinuation that everyone who has a Ph.D. or holds the title of expert is somehow part of the problem. Lookit, empirical science is a good thing, and the vast majority of research scientists and medical professionals are not the boogy-men that they are made out to be.

Reliable statistics on Alzheimers prior to the 1970s simply do not exist. In 1960, someone with Alzheimers who was living in New York and had access to cutting edge health care for the day might get diagnosed properly. But someone living in say, Podunk, OK (population 200) that same year, probably would not. Thus the statistics. It is not a global conspiracy - it is what it is, the evolution of our medical understanding.

The same could be said about this flouride business. I've seen the same youtube videos you all have, and I'm not convinced. First of all, the diseases and microorganisms that you would injest without flouride would be potentially more deadly. Secondly, there is not a single piece of verified, duplicated research that shows a correlation between reduced mental capacity after say, ten years of drinking municipal water, and flouride. Everyone points to dumber kids today, but as someone who regularly deals with the 18 to 22 year old crowd, I would say that the real problem is not physiological damage from flouride, but psychological damage from our culture. Kids today are no dumber than the were a hundred years ago; it is our culture that fails to channel their intelligence in a meaningful way, and actually teaches them to mistrust intellignce. And my last word on flouride: there are other things in the water that should be of more concern. Forget, for a moment, the mainstream media report of a year ago, which pointed out the high levels of prescription medicine in our tap water. Let's talk about the high doses of chlorine - much more dangerous than flouride to our systems - we injest. The high amounts of clorine added to municipal water supplies are making people sick - there is mainstream medical documentation about that, but nothing is done. Chlorine and prescription drugs should upset you more than flouride.

And since we're on the touchy subject of chemical conspiracies, let me talk about mercury in vaccines. I and everyone I know have been immunized as suggested by the authorities. We are not sterile. Our brains didn't get liquified. We turned out just fiine. Why is that? Why is it that the vast majority of people who get immunized don't end up sterile or retarded, and go on to live long, productive lives? If these vaccines were actually to blame for the cornucopia of ailments many claim, those maladies would be much more pervasive than they are today. There is something else behind the dramatic rise of Autism, and the scientific evidence for Mercury is pretty thin. The whole "its the Mercury in the vaccines" sounds like a manufactured disinformation scheme designed to hinder finding out what has led to the rise of Autism. Besides, I have no desire to winess in my lifetime a global pandemic of Smallpox.

I know, I know, I must be mind controlled, or part of the "establishment." Forgive me, its probably just the Aspartame talking . . .