Drinking water filters - when to change element?

[The Natural Philosopher]

Governments have little monopoly on politics.

[The Natural Philosopher]

Not half as slippery as mass deception, and scaremongering, which have been going on for years with no end or decrease in sight.

I think the biggest joke of all was whaen dear old Edwina Curry got

sacked for telling the unplatable truth - that free range eggs are

liberally dosed with slamonella to a far higher level than 'factory farmed' ones.

A statement that my ageing mother, who grew up on a farm and won't

ever touch an egg since, will support..

[usenet]

This is (to my mind) becoming a more and more common problem in many fields. Very little actual research or work is done so that the few original bits of real research that do get done are processed to death and pushed in all directions by people with exes to grind.

For example (not research as such, but similar) weather forecasting here in the UK relies on *fewer* live inputs from weather observation points and tries to compensate by using more computing power.

[Grunff]

Thank you David, that was most informative. And a nice bit of reading for me to do next time I have a spare hour or two.

Let me clarify my position. I'm not pro fluoridation, neither am I anti it. I am very much anti scare-mongering conspiracists.

There is a certain group of people who will happily jump on the 'toxic crusade' bandwagon at any given opportunity. Let's not forget that chlorine was labeled 'the devil's element' by a certain environmental group not so long ago.

[Adrian Sims]

As we all know chlorine causes female polar bears to grow big willies.

Or are you a member of chlorophiles.org.

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[Adrian Sims]

Sorry but somehow the URLs got filtered out! (either thanks to my brain or my computer)

[usenet]

Or even 'axes'.....

[The Natural Philosopher]

Hear hear.

Undubtedly a return to a diet consisting of meat, nuts, and vegetables with zero starch or sugar in it would improve all our teeth, not top mention fixng obesity as a problem forever. In the meantime, fluoride on the evidence, does something that stops kids teeth rotting. Whatever the mechanism.

If you don't like it, buy bottled water and poison yourself with that instead.

Its a function of age, people my age can remember friends and relatives dying of bronchitis, being crippled by polio, dying of scarlet fever, of babies born deformed by mothers who cauight german measles, and indeed catching it - and mumps, and ordinary measles, ourselves. And having our teeth ripped to pieces by NHS dentists on a rate for the job, who forebore using expensive anaesthetic. Who had at least 4-6 cases of food poisoning a year, befor refrigerators existed.

And who still managed to survive in asbestos roofed houses heated by asbestos lined stoves drinking out of lead line water fountains and breathing lead filled petrol fumes. AND be healthy enough with it, and we ain't dead yet.

And really came to appreciate things like MMR, polio jabs, TB jabs, smallpox vaccinations, tetanus vaccinations, chlorine in the water, and fluoride, and many many other things. Including food hygiene standards, refrigerators, central heating and the like.

Chrsut, today there is probably some lobby group or other lobbying for sandals, on the grounds that otherwise their human rights will be violated by ingrowing toenails.