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Arthur L. Caplan, Ph.D., is Emmanuel and Robert Hart Professor of Bioethics and director of the Center for Bioethics at the University of Pennsylvania. Prior to coming to Penn in 1994, Caplan taught at the University of Minnesota, the University of Pittsburgh, and Columbia University.
Although bioethical issues have been debated since ancient times, and public attention briefly focused on the role of human subjects in biomedical experiments following the revelation of Nazi experiments conducted during World War II, the modern field of bioethics first emerged as an academic discipline in Anglophone societies in the 1960s.
Originally posted by Deafseeingeyedog
Skeptics are like tits on a bull. Useless.
Fertilizer byproducts fed to you intravenously no big deal?
Just close your mind and don't worry, nothing to fear here, move along.
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in·tra·ve·nous ( n tr -v n s). adj. Abbr. IV. Within or administered into a vein. n. A drug, nutrient solution, or other substance administered into a vein
reply to post by NightGypsy
Some points from the video to consider:
Plant employees were evacuated
Hazmat had to respond to clean it up in full Hazmat gear
The chemical was "quickly" eating through the concrete
The chemical poses a burn risk to skin
Does that sound like a chemical that is good for you to ingest?
REALLY?
Oh, YES, give me some more fluoride, PLEASE....I can't get enough of that corrosive chemical!
Originally posted by wardk28
reply to post by MathiasAndrew
I never said fluoride wasn't a poison. I said that the rate they use in water is no where near the amount needed to cause those side effects. Unless you decide to eat toothpaste, then you shouldn't be worried about fluoride poisoning.
Originally posted by boncho
reply to post by NightGypsy
Some points from the video to consider:
Plant employees were evacuated
Hazmat had to respond to clean it up in full Hazmat gear
The chemical was "quickly" eating through the concrete
The chemical poses a burn risk to skin
Does that sound like a chemical that is good for you to ingest?
REALLY?
Oh, YES, give me some more fluoride, PLEASE....I can't get enough of that corrosive chemical!
You of course know that oxygen can kill you in pure form too, right?
reply to post by Buford2
Anyone who supports poison in the water, air, food or environment are either not thinking or have an agenda. Makes no sense in supporting a Gov. who puts poison in the water while they kill millions of humans in other countries.
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Paracelsus, the father of toxicology, once wrote: "Everything is poison, there is poison in everything. Only the dose makes a thing not a poison."
The term "poison" is often used colloquially to describe any harmful substance, particularly corrosive substances, carcinogens, mutagens, teratogens and harmful pollutants, and to exaggerate the dangers of chemicals.
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Toxicology
Harmful if swallowed. Experimental teratogen. Irritant in humans. May affect CNS.
EU classification Harmful (Xn)
You of course know that oxygen can kill you in pure form too, right?
So I think the larger issue is the fact that governments, not just ours, seem to have very little regard for human life that isn't their own. That is very troubling if you ask me.
From 1988 to 2008, the number of overseas clinical trials for drugs intended for American consumption increased by 2,000%, to approximately 6,500 trials. These trials are often conducted in areas with large numbers of poor and illiterate people who grant their consent by signing an "X" or making a thumb print on a form.
I really hate to point this out to you....but your last two posts failed to have a point.
Originally posted by boncho
reply to post by bphi1908
I really hate to point this out to you....but your last two posts failed to have a point.
Neither did the posts I was replying to...
Originally posted by boncho
Originally posted by Deafseeingeyedog
Skeptics are like tits on a bull. Useless.
Fertilizer byproducts fed to you intravenously no big deal?
Just close your mind and don't worry, nothing to fear here, move along.
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in·tra·ve·nous ( n tr -v n s). adj. Abbr. IV. Within or administered into a vein. n. A drug, nutrient solution, or other substance administered into a vein
They are shooting fluoride into your veins are they?
All this raises an obvious question: If fluoride kills cows, and crops, and fish, and is considered a hazardous waste chemical by the EPA, then how could it be healthy to ingest?
Roughly ninety-nine percent of the municipal water pumped through any given city never ends up in the mouths of the people. Most water is used for showering, washing dishes, washing clothes, watering yards and filling pools. Almost none of the fluoride dripped into the water supply comes into contact with human teeth. It does, however, end up downstream, where it contaminates rivers, streams and ultimately the oceans of our world. In this way, water fluoridation policies have become a convenient loophole through which the phosphate mining industry can dump its toxic waste byproducts into the environment without adhering to any EPA regulations whatsoever. Phosphate mining companies even turn a profit by selling their hazardous waste to cities, then labeling it "fluoride" even though this name is scientifically inaccurate.