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https://decs.nhgl.med.navy.mil/1QTR05/LITERATUREREVIEW/amalgamsafety.pdf

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https://decs.nhgl.med.navy.mil/1QTR05/LITERATUREREVIEW/amalgamsafety.p
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Read Norway's own Ministry of the Environment webpage, which clearly acknowledges the ban on dental amalgam, contrary to the DoD's *lies.
The Department of Defense has zero credibility left after all their lies about Iraq. The DoD is even less credible than Fox news, since DoD is so often the source of the kind of lies that Fox parrots.

your link says:
"...despite rumors that it has been banned in some countries, [dental amalgam is]] currently available for use around the
world."

*LIES

The Swedish MP interviewed in this BBC documentary clearly stated that Sweden was phasing out amalgam as of 1994. Your link cites a 1995 source from before Sweden completed phasing out amalgam.

But a quick google search shows that there is no shortage of sites spreading misinformation, emphatically denying that any European country has banned dental amalgam. The denials are about half of the pages that mention it. *wtf? The ban is a simple, easily verifiable matter of fact. Does the Iraqi Information Minister have a twin?


See also: http://www.norway.no/sok/?txtQueryString=amalgam+banned

Some are so caught up in combating real pseudoscientific bullshit like acupuncture / homeopathy / the latest "natural cures" fad that they treat any challenge to the medical status quo as if it must be quackery. Just because something has been done for 150 years without most doctors realizing it was wrong, does not make it right. Leeches were used for 1000+ years, take that! Take no comfort in suckling on the teat of the majority dogma.

Rembar, how about that Swedish scientist who wrote the standard textbook on metal toxicology and consulted for the WHO, and helped get amalgam banned in Sweden? Did you watch far enough in this documentary to see him? Or did you skip the whole video as soon as you identified it as something contradicting your dogma?

I've got no problem if you remove actual pseudoscience, like homeopathy, astrology, acupuncture, 'creation science', chiropractors, raw foodism, diet fads, crystal healing, 95% of the self-help books ever written, and all the other bullshit from the Science channel. But this documentary definitely interviews many respectable practitioners of *science and is not bullshit.

From the Swedish Chemicals Inspectorate:
http://www.kemi.se/templates/News____3082.aspx
http://www.kemi.se/templates/Page.aspx?id=5233


If we're going to play the game that the actual source studies are TL;DR, then let's talk about credibility:

The government of Sweden is more trustworthy than the US DoD, especially on environmental/health policy, since:
1. Intelligence tests indicate that on average people in Sweden are smarter than people in the USA
2. The government of Sweden hasn't used flagrant lies to justify war lately
3. A large fraction of the USA doesn't care about the environment because they think Jesus is coming back soon to rapture them up to heaven.

I'm not saying the DoD is part of any conspiracy here; they may just be lazy and incompetent with regard to updating their "fact sheet."

"Never ascribe to malice what can be adequately explained by stupidity" - Hanlon's Razor

Just for some perspective, the FDA's limit on mercury in drinking water is 0.002 mcg/ml (2 parts per billion by mass, or 0.18 parts per billion by moles), which is less than 1/1,000 of the level detected in the blood of dentists in this video IIRC. It's the kind of environmental toxin that bioconcentrates up the food chain because it accumulates in the body.

Part of the reason Norway and Sweden banned dental amalgam was because they did a study that found it is the source of a large percentage of the mercury in their sewage system. One man's sewage system empties into another man's fishery (the Ocean). It's better that the mercury remain sequestered underground than continue to pollute the Ocean. Continuously dumping mercury-contaminated sewage into the ocean for the next 4 billion years is not good policy. Mercury levels in the ocean are concentrated via the food chain. One fish eats many smaller fishes, and much of the mercury they contain is retained, so each level of the food chain has like 100 times the mercury level of the next lower level. (That's why you should never eat shark, btw. They're many steps up the food chain the original microscopic plankton, through multiple paths of various lengths)

Hilarious again. If rembar can find even one document that speaks against a subject that he disagree's with then it's not valid science.

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