Hot From Doha - Sexy Phil Puts Crap in Irish Water

There was a gas escape at a fluoride processing plant in Shannon yesterday which resulted in seven workers  being hospitalised and an industrial estate  being evacuated after a vapour cloud made breathing difficult.
But it's all ok now, apparently.  Just as we are all supposed to accept  that a little bit of poison in our water is good for our teeth.

The water that people in Ireland are forced to drink is laced with chemical waste, by government dictat, since 1964. Ireland is one of only three countries remaining in the world that persists with the bizarre idea that putting  a small  dose of a grade two poison into public  water is  somehow okay.
Most countries  halted water fluoridation  in the 1970s, 1980s, or, like Finland, in the 1990s. None of these places  have  reported tooth problems as a result.
But just as with abortion legislation,  Irish legislators are so  behind the times, it is not even funny. It is really not funny either  for the kids here who are suffering with painful bone cancers, or for  the millions of Irish  people with thyroid problems. All of these medical conditions are made worse by fluoride, because  it prevents the thyroid master gland functioning normally.  Abnormal thyroid function causes obesity, alzheimers, arthritis and depression and  these illnesses create massive medical bills for the state.

So, because sexy Phil Hogan and his secretary, who were  pictured cavorting  at  a Climate Change Conference in Doha on  the front page of this month's Phoenix Magazine, persist in buying the myth that  fluoride prevents  tooth cavities developing, Ireland  spends  around ten million euro a year putting crap in our water,
Hogan's cabinet colleague Health Minister  James Reilly has a very unhealthy population to deal with, thanks to the environement \minister's dealings with Chemifloc, the company that had seven workers in hospital after an accident at their Shannon  Plant last night.
Hardly Dr Reilly's fault then, that his  health budget is massively overspent, when it's  Hogan's department adding Chemifloc crap to the water.

But is  Reilly really interested in people being healthy? He is a doctor and needs  his colleagues to  have patients.  Reilly claims to be a reformer,  but he has accomplished little. He could save his skin, by listening  to scientists a bit.  HE COULD GET  Phil Hogan  to stop putting poison in public water. Then people would not  get so sick, andMinister Reilly would not be so over budget.
Why, when he is in such deep shit, does Minister Reilly not do what Fine Gael  said it  would in 2000, and remove Fluoride from Irish water?
When scientists like Declan Waugh of www.environ.ie wrote to the Government in March this year, to explain that  fluoridation was a massively expensive liability  that we   really could not afford to pursue any longer, the Dept of  Health brushed him off. Aah it's grand, they said. As long as it's only a little hit.

 Why? Why  would a government desperate to cut its spending continue to spend more than 10 Million euro a year on  a substance that makes people sick?
 Is only a litle bit  sick ok? Like a little bit pregnant is ok?  Or maybe Dr Reilly and Minister Hogan and Taoiseach Enda Kenny  are only a little bit stupid? I really hope they are stupid, because the alternative is that they are not stupid and are therefore corrupt, or willfully negligent.

So I am  sorry,  that I can't say Irish water  is okay. I can  only say that the PRESENT coalition government, for its own reasons, feels a burning need to spend ten million euro a year on adding a substance to public warter that makes people sick and sabotages infant brain development.There was a Seanad debate on whether mothers should be warned  that giving Irish tap  water to their babies would hinder their brain development, and just as with the abortion issue, they decided to do FUCK ALL. The Government advice, issued after much consideration about just  how to explain to people how  fluoride in water affects babies, was that   breast is best.  Yes that IS true, but it is certainly  not the full story. The truth is that giving tap water from IRISH PUBLIC SUPPLIES TO BABIES UNDER TWO YEARS will probably damage their ability to think. Forever.

What is almost worse,  is that the Irish Government persists in its  claims, despite evidence to the  contrary, that the many   illnesses caused by fluoride are somehow  an acceptable  form of collateral damage, because Fluoride is  so good at preventing  tooth cavities.  This logic is just plain  weird. The Irish Government  seems to be saying to scientists like Declan Waugh:  "Yeah, right, we know it causes cancer and  arthritis and that yeah, but look you'll have nice teeth, Declan. "Even if  your kids are  made into cretins by drinking  public water, don't worry, we have it all under control.

So, please come back  Father Ted and  bring Jeremy Bentham with you. All is forgiven, because we need some help weighing up infant brains against tooth cavities. Maybe Mrs Doyle could make us a cup of tea, while we try to figure it out.
We  will definitely need  a few more statistics to enliven the talks at  the Science farce the  Irish Government is planning  to stage next July. Maybe  we could get  Father Ted out of retirement to open it.  if not, I'm sure his worthy successor Mario Rosenstock  will find some fresh material there.