Fluorosis Threatens Students' Progress ; Open Lines
Evening Post (Bristol, UK) › August 08, 2009
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AS a former lecturer, having contributed to the practice of "handing on the inherited culture" or, as one of my cynical colleagues once put it, "casting artificial pearls before real swine", may I offer congratulations to the pupils and their teachers in the Bristol and Avon area who are turning former despair into triumph with respect to the Sats tests.
Let us hope this encouraging trend will continue upwards but on a long-term perspective there could be a cloud on the horizon. Should Bristol, South Gloucestershire; and Bath and North East Somerset fall victims to water fluoridation schemes, on evidence from the People's Republic of China, there will be a depression of IQ scores among the young? Not only is the fluoridating agent a neurotoxin, but its one acknowledged visual outcome is dental fluorosis, an ugly, socially repulsive condition of the teeth.See the full content of this document
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Fluorosis Threatens Students' Progress ; Open Lines
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