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WildAboutHarry wrote: Please make me a drink of grain alcohol and rainwater, and help yourself to whatever you'd like. 

Mandrake, do you realize that in addition to fluoridating water, why, there are studies underway to fluoridate salt, flour, fruit juices, soup, sugar, milk... ice cream. Ice cream, Mandrake, children's ice cream.

Fluoridation is the most monstrously conceived and dangerous communist plot we have ever had to face.

General Jack D. Ripper: You know when fluoridation first began?
Group Capt. Lionel Mandrake: I... no, no. I don't, Jack.
General Jack D. Ripper: Nineteen hundred and forty-six. 1946, Mandrake. How does that coincide with your post-war Commie conspiracy, huh? It's incredibly obvious, isn't it? A foreign substance is introduced into our precious bodily fluids without the knowledge of the individual. Certainly without any choice. That's the way your hard-core Commie works.

MachineGhost wrote: Make fun all you want, but we're not specifically adding strontium, thorium or grain alcohol to the water supply.  The point, ladies and gentleman, is that crony capitalism is evil.

WildAboutHarry wrote: I guess neither of you have seen Dr. Strangelove

http://www.cultofweird.com/medical/eben-byers-radithor-poisoning/ wrote: In 1927, while returning via chartered train from the annual Harvard-Yale football game, Byers fell from his berth and injured his arm. He complained of persistent pain and a doctor suggested that he take Radithor, a patent medicine manufactured by William J. A. Bailey. Bailey was a Harvard University dropout who falsely claimed to be a doctor of medicine and became rich from the sale of Radithor. Bailey created Radithor by dissolving radium in water to high concentrations, claiming it could cure many ailments by stimulating the endocrine system. He offered physicians a 17% rebate on the prescription of each dose of Radithor.

Byers began taking enormous doses of Radithor, which he believed had greatly improved his health, drinking 3 bottles a day – nearly 1400 bottles total. In the process, he subjected himself to more than three times the acute lethal radiation dose. By 1930, when Byers stopped taking the remedy, he had accumulated significant amounts of radium in his bones resulting in the loss of most of his jaw. Byers’ brain was also abscessed and holes were forming in his skull. He died from radium poisoning on March 31, 1932. He is buried in Allegheny Cemetery in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in a lead-lined coffin.

Due to Byers’ prominence, his death received much publicity. The Wall Street Journal ran a headline reading “The Radium Water Worked Fine until His Jaw Came Off”? after his death. His illness and eventual death also led to a heightened awareness of the dangers of radiation poisoning, and to the adoption of laws that increased the powers of the FDA.

William Bailey was never tried for Byers’ death, although the Federal Trade Commission issued an order against his business. However this did not stop Bailey from trading in radioactive products. He later founded a new company – “Radium Institute”?, in New York – and marketed a radioactive belt-clip, a radioactive paperweight, and a mechanism which made water radioactive.

The death of Eben Byers, along with the plight of the Radium Girls getting sick from the radium-based glow-in-the-dark paint they applied to watch dials at the United States Radium factory, enlightened the public to the dangers of radium.

Radium-based products were still sold into the 1980s, including the Lifestone Cigarette Holder in the 1960s which was said to “protect users from lung cancer, promise them beautiful faces, and excellent health.”?

Radioactive health springs are still in operation today.

WiseOne wrote: I laughed when I saw it was a "hindawi" journal.  They're essentially scams.  They publish online (which costs next to nothing) for the low, low price of $800, and of course I get requested to "contribute" several times a day. Not surprisingly, only pure crud gets published there.  In this case, if the article were a respectable research report with the implications described in the abstract, that would have easily gotten into a journal that doesn't charge.

Benko wrote: You do realize that fluoride rinse is the last step in your dental regimen and if you're using that regularly, you're swallowing fluoride even if you only rinse with the stuff right?