In the last few years, some of America’s richest and wealthiest men have convinced themselves that tap water and bottled water both hurt equally or, at the very least, do not bring health benefits, therefore they started buying by numbers astronomical large stocks of what is called "raw water": for about $ 3.7 a liter, in San Francisco you can buy unfiltered, untreated and unsterilized water, taken from a source in Oregon and bottled as well as.
The raw water has an expiration date: after...
... a few weeks it becomes green and muddy, but for Mukhande Singh, the entrepreneur who sells miraculous water with his "Live Water" company, this is a good sign, because it means that the water it is alive, not dead like the one flowing from the taps, which is "toilet water full of birth control drugs" and "mind-manipulating substances", as he told the New York Times.
Singh, whose give name is Christopher Sanborn, is convinced that the fluorine and chlorine dissolved in tap water are part of a government plot, and that the only way to escape it is to detach from the network of aqueducts and start drinking again spring water, as our ancestors did.
Following this "fashion", Silicon Valley consumes unsterilized water which turns green after a month and which, doctors say, can easily cause dysentery and chronic ailments.
Among the main supporters of raw water there is Doug Evans, entrepreneur-holy man who became famous last year for trying to sell wi-fi juicers with his Juicero for $ 400.
Part of the conspiracy against tap water falls into the category of ultra-elite health: not everyone believes that chlorine and fluorine are substances for mind control, but they still spend astronomical figures to buy bottles of untreated water in the name of an unspecified return to the origins while others install expensive machines on the balcony to distil water from the humidity of the air.
While Californian liberal elites drink raw water, Alex Jones, a famous television conspiracy theorist of Trump trends, has always maintained that fluoride dissolved in drinking water is a tool for manipulating the mind.
"Water flouridation" means a practice used in several countries of the World (and particularly widespread in North America and Australia) to add or subtract from the water fluorine ions in order to maintain a fluorine concentration that reduces the incidence of dental diseases (caries and fluorosis) in the population.
Fluorine is added to water in the form of fluorides that dissolve in water in the form of fluorine ions (F-) in quantities between 0.7 and 1.2 ppm and other ions depending on the particular compound used.
The compounds that are added to the water, combined by a high availability, by the extreme availability and solubility in water, are above all three:
- sodium fluorosilicate
- sodium fluoride, more expensive but easy to use
- fluorosilicic acid, secondary product deriving from the production of fertilizers, available at low cost.
The addition of these substances, considered safe for health, can be carried out manually or automatically and takes into account the concentration of fluorine naturally present in the water, so that the sum of the naturally present fluorine and the added fluorine is equal at optimal levels.
Health authorities around the world agree that fluoride therapy is a safe and effective means of preventing tooth decay, supporting significant benefits for dental health and minimal risk.
According to the United States Center for Disease Prevention and Control, water fluoridation is one of the ten greatest achievements of the twentieth century in public health, however some long-term studies show that fluoride can also have negative effects so much that much of Europe has refused to adopt this technique.
The opposition to fluoridation has taken hold since 1940 and is based on political, moral, ethical, economic and health considerations concerning the fluoridation of public water supplies: detractors see it as a violation of individual rights and medical ethics, based on the fact that people have no other choice in the water they drink, unless they drink more expensive bottled water.
A small minority of scientists challenged medical consensus, arguing that fluoridating water not only would not have benefits but could cause serious health problems, its effectiveness would not be sufficient to justify the high costs and would be pharmaceutically obsolete.
Fluoride, which is often used in pesticides and rodenticides, is the only chemical used to treat people who drink water and not to treat water itself.
Since its function is to prevent tooth decay, the Food and Drug administration considers it a medicine.
This is why those who are against the fluoridation of water describe it as a form of mass treatment.
It is not an essential nutrient and has long been known to be toxic: the fluorinated additives used most often are silicofluorides, industrial and impure by-products of the fertilizer industry very different from the fluoride salts present in toothpaste and other dental hygiene products that must bear the warning of poisoning.
Since the 1950s, the practice of water fluoridation has also been criticized by proponents of conspiracy theories, according to which a high intake of fluoride would cause various damages to the organism and human intellect.
In support of this thesis, the conspiracy theorists assert that scientific studies show that this practice is not effective or even harmful to human health, since according to some scholars a high concentration of fluorine would cause sterility.
Others argue that this practice would be done to the detriment of the physical and mental health of the organism in order to add up and control the population.
In the US during the second "Red Scare" during the early 1950s, and, to a lesser extent, in 1960, conspiracy theorists considered it part of a Soviet Union communist plot to undermine American public health: activists right-wingers claimed that it was part of a far-reaching plan to impose a socialist regime.
Others have claimed the existence of a communist plot to weaken the intellects and strength of a generation of American children.
Dr. Charles Bett, an important anti-fluoridationist, was convinced that fluoridation was even a weapon more powerful and effective than the atomic bomb, an invisible and silent enemy.
The subject of the Communist plot lost strength in the mid-1960s, when people began to associate it with irrational fear and paranoia: they make it a faithful portrait of Stanley Kubrick with the film "Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb" (1964) in which General Jack D Ripper starts a nuclear war, hoping to thwart a communist plot aimed at 'sapping and impurifying' the 'precious body fluids' of Americans with the administration of fluorinated water, and Gordon Douglas with "In Like Flint" (1967) in which the terror of one of the characters for the flourization of water is used as proof of his madness.
Some sources claim that the fluoridation of water was also used by the Nazis during the Second World War as a method of subjugation of human minds: this theory dates back to the breakdown of IG Farben after the conflict.
IG Farben was a German chemical engineering company with connections to the Rockefellers, American Banks and Ford.
After the Second World War the chemical researcher Charles Perkins was sent from the USA to take care of the chemical plants in Germany.
Perkins learned from German colleagues that sodium floride (psychotropic substance contained in almost all tranquilizers), already used in German and Russian POW camps to make prisoners silent and docile, allowed them to control the population in certain geographic areas: causing damage to a particular area of the brain, it rendered individuals incapable of defending their freedom.
In 2016, Australia's National Health and Medical Research Council, following the screening of more than 3,000 studies published in the past 60 years, said that fluoride in drinking water has no negative effect on children's intellectual development, does not increase the risk of cancer, does not harm the kidneys, bones and does not give obvious toxicity, provided that the concentration remains within acceptable levels.
However, in recent years the fluoridation of water has become the subject of debate in many countries, some of which have opted to discontinue this practice.
The U.S. government is currently recommending lower levels of fluoride in water, a decision that was probably promoted by recent large-scale studies showing a rapid decline in the rate of tooth decay in both western countries that treat water with fluoride, both in those who do not.
Dr. Grandjean of Harvard University recommends using it locally, for example when brushing his teeth, but not to ingest it since there is no need to ingest it to benefit from it.
He also believes that it has a negative effect on brain development and that it reduces the IQ. Some studies reveal that there is a connection between water fluoridation and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, skeletal fluorosis, a painful bone disease, dental fluorosis, a defect in dental enamel, and other complications.
To date, the gaps in the scientific literature and the impossibility of giving a definitive answer to the question "is fluoride good or bad?" fuel controversy and give rise to further speculation.
"I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them"
-Thomas Jefferson
Resources related to Water Flouridation: a public health conspiracy
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