I am not joking. In the 50s-60s sometime it must have been started, and my grandparents, parents and all my cousins weren't allowed to get flouride teeth treatments at school or use the toothpaste. So we all got alot of cavaties as kids. Where the heck would an idea like that even come from?
P.S. At 18, I started using flouride and am definitely still a capitalist American, but without more cavaties.
2007-05-18 08:22:09 · 9 answers · asked by 2 Happily Married Americans 5 in Health ➔ Dental
Actually, it was not just the topical applications that these people were so opposed to, but rather the addition of fluoride to the communal water supplies. The antifluoridationists were rabid in their opposition between the 1950's to mid 1970's. A Communist plot was often cited.
2007-05-18 08:37:50 · answer #1 · answered by greydoc6 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Research has shown that Fluoride, which is highly toxic, is dangerous to the bones in adults and to small children.
The American Dental Association issued an alert on November-9, 2006 urging parents to avoid Fluoridated water when reconstituting infant formula.
About the Communist plot about Fluoride destroying the brains may or may not be so, but there are growing evidence that links Fluoride to weakened bones, reduced thyroid and cancer in boys.
2007-05-18 15:46:12 · answer #2 · answered by Pencos Reyes 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
My parents understood fluoride (I was born in 1955), but I certainly heard of people who thought it was a "Communist plot" back then. It was all part of the 50s Communist-witchhunt mentality; people didn't yet understand fluoride for the most part, and they were scared silly of the "evil Communists" thanks to Richard "Tricky Dick" Nixon and Joe McCarthy. It was another time and place, and fewer people had a good education... just be glad you know better now.
2007-05-18 15:31:35 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
have never heard of the communist theory, but my mom NEVER let me get flouride at the dentist because she believed it was toxic and a carcinogen. to this day i still have never had fouride, and only one cavity (i'm in my mid 20's).
she may have been a little too cautious, but i do believe that such chemicals can be harmful to our bodies. i think flouride may not be needed as often as dentists recommend.
2007-05-18 15:32:26 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
No. But my Mom only allowed us to play Pong for 30 mintes, using a timer, so it wouldn't "burn into the tv screen". I guess they thought the image of the game stay on the screen if you played too long, ot they just wanted me off the tv so they could watch Hee-Haw.
2007-05-18 15:30:29 · answer #5 · answered by Sheila 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Air Force General Curtis LeMay was the big push behind that scandal, and only his devote followers believed it. He was the one behind the convential bombing of Japan and the famous line "I'm going to bomb them back to the stone age".
2007-05-18 15:24:44 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
What give anybody the right to add anything to drinkwater except to kill bacteria?
2007-05-18 15:31:01 · answer #7 · answered by Choppygutz 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
are you serious? my parents think the same thing.....
2007-05-18 15:24:34 · answer #8 · answered by harrison b 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
mine didn't but that is interesting
2007-05-18 15:25:56 · answer #9 · answered by sanjayas_fanjaya 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋