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Bluelighter
Re: fluoride and babies - search for it.. babies under 6 months shouldn't be given fluoridated water as it goes over the recommended amount of intake per body weight (cos babies drink more water in relation to their body mass.. or somethin like that..)
Show me the evidence, don't just say "search for it" - you made the claim so the burden of proof is on you.
Re: safe dosage used to be 4ppm: Well then they discovered it's not safe at 4ppm. How long till they discover it's not safe at 1ppm? They had evidence to say fluoride was safe at 4ppm.. as you are now using evidence to say it is safe at 1ppm..
This is faulty logic again. You're treading to the territory of the same kind of wingnuttery we've come to hear from asencin: "scientists have been wrong in the past so why trust anything they say now."
The point is, all current evidence points in the direction that fluoride is safe at 1 ppm. Do we know it for certain, of course not. For that matter, we might be living in the matrix and the easter bunny might be able to cure cancer... but until evidence of such things comes up it's quite safe to assume that we do not live in the matrix and the easter bunny does not actually exist.
The problem with this way of thinking is that you want static answers, something that you can call "the final truth" that is absolutely correct. Sadly, the real world just doesn't work that way... we make observations, and theories based on those observations. Then we make new observations, refining those theories. It's a constant process, never becoming "finished", new evidence being found all the time.
So, can you already see how you have a weak argument here? We can't know what kind of evidence we'll discover in the future. We might find out that broccoli causes impotence and fat elbows. Currently, there's no reason to assume that it does (that I know of...) and similarly, we might find out that fluoride makes your testicles fall out, but again, there's currently no reason to assume that it does. All we can do is make reasonable assumptions based on the current evidence.