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US Gained a Decade of Flynn-Effect IQ Points After Adding Iodine To Salt
cold fjord writes "I wish it was always this easy. Business Insider reports, 'Iodized salt is so ubiquitous that we barely notice it. Few people know why it even exists. Iodine deficiency remains the world's leading cause of preventable mental retardation. According to a new study (abstract), its introduction in America in 1924 had an effect so profound that it raised the country's IQ. A new NBER working paper from James Feyrer, Dimitra Politi, and David N. Weil finds that the population in iodine-deficient areas saw IQs rise by a full standard deviation, which is 15 points, after iodized salt was introduced.... The mental impacts were unknown, the program was started to fight goiter, so these effects were an extremely fortunate, unintended side effect.'"
I wasn't asking it as I've been taking my iodized salt.
No, I was busy jumping to conclusions with only a scant amount of knowledge in hand--which was gleaned from the headline and half of the summary.
I object to power without constructive purpose. --Spock
You haven't been taking your iodine, have you?
Lies.
Sincerely,
Master Control Program
It's been offset by the introduction of fluoride in the water supply, which is simply Communist infiltration, Communist indoctrination, Communist subversion and an international Communist conspiracy to sap and impurify all of our precious bodily fluids. Hence, Dancing with the Stars.
"National Security is the chief cause of national insecurity." - Celine's First Law
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:CNS-letter.jpg
The evidence really is overwhelming. I dare you to read just the first article here. It is published in a very prestigious journal. Educate yourself please. We are trying to help you. The industries and corporations which have captured america's government do not love you. The toothpaste is a lie. Colgate will not make you sexy. See the brainwashing for what it really is, breakout of the master-slave paradigm.
Chemico-Biological Interactions 188 (2010) 319–333
Molecular mechanisms of fluoride toxicity
Unfortunately this copy is missing colour and some excellent diagrams. Google for a better copy.
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:iYgtU-HidMIJ:www.researchgate.net/publication/45281342_Molecular_mechanisms_of_fluoride_toxicity/file/79e415101a1cc46320.pdf+Chemico-Biological+Interactions+188+(2010)+319%E2%80%93333+Molecular+mechanisms+of+fluoride+toxicity&cd=2&hl=en&ct=clnk
DOI: 10.1097/MNM.0b013e32834c187e
Association of vascular fluoride uptake with vascular
calcification and coronary artery disease
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:ghbGfaMZNBMJ:intraspec.ca/Association_of_vascular_fluoride_uptake_with.3.pdf+DOI:+10.1097/MNM.0b013e32834c187e+Association+of+vascular+fluoride+uptake+with+vascular+calcification+and+coronary+artery+disease&cd=2&hl=en&ct=clnk
Crit Rev Oral Biol Med
14(2):100-114 (2003)
THE BIOCHEMISTRY AND PHYSIOLOGY
OF METALLIC FLUORIDE: ACTION,
MECHANISM, AND IMPLICATIONS
Liang Li
cro.sagepub.com/content/14/2/100.full.pdf
REVERSAL OF CLINICAL
AND DENTAL FLUOROSIS
Gupta ET AL.
INDIAN PEDIATRICS
Vol 31- APRIL 1994
I like my heroes to be WAY over the top. That is why mine is Buckaroo Banzi.
Why is it so hard to only have politicians for a few years, then have them go away?
For movie watching a high IQ only gets in the way.
When things get complex, multiply by the complex conjugate.
You are doing it wrong. Most Americans buy the kind that has the flavored coatings. You can find it on nearly every aisle of what is commonly called a grocery store. Just be sure to stay out of the area labeled produce.