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The only people I’ve found that say fluoride causes large problems for them are always through self-diagnosis.

Self-diagnosis is prone to error and may be potentially dangerous if inappropriate decisions are made on the basis of a misdiagnosis. Because of the risks, self-diagnosis is officially discouraged by governments, physicians, and patient care organizations.

Even physicians are discouraged from engaging in self-diagnosis. The filter solution in the image could have been a simple placebo effect.

 

 

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“Now saving 0.6 of a tooth surface does not seem something that I would go back for myself but if the other public health service policies… You might want to go back for it if you measured vaccination. Vaccination is worth billions of dollars to the pharmaceutical industry and we know in the United States there is a very unhealthy relationship between the FDA and the CDC and the pharmaceutical industry. There are more lobbyists for the pharmaceutical industry in Washington than congressmen, so you know, we’re pretty suspicious about that.

So in other words once again you’re seeing possibility a bad activity justified by the greater good. The greater good is to protect these other health policies that they really believe in and they feel for it. As I try to intimate to me is the sure way is to lose the public’s trust is to keep pushing this practice long after it can be justified scientifically. Um, so they need to do better if that is their calculation, they do better if they come out clean. I sometimes say ‘look’ and you can take it or leave it or this is just a way I can pitch it right.

It’s like defending a medieval castle. The medieval castle has an outer perimeter, an inner perimeter, a moat, a drawbridge and a castle. And a King in the castle. So what’s the analogy? The outer perimeter is fluoridation, the inner perimeter is vaccination. Pull up the drawbridge and defend the castle. And the castle is orthodox medicine; one pill for the pharmaceutical industry for every ailment, and of course the King here is the pharmaceutical industry and their control of modern medicine. That’s why I think they may take a special delight in attacking chiropractors, people that practice alternative medicine, it’s all part of the same thing of protecting orthodoxy. And as I say, the first battle, as they see it, is protecting fluoridation. They see the floodgates opening as we crazy lunatic people come out and attack all their other precious practices.”

It seems Connett is ignoring that globally, the alternative medicine industry is estimated to be worth some $60 billion a year according to the World Health Organization (WHO). That is a lot to pay for placebos.

You can listen to the full clip of that question. I apologise for the low sound quality.

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