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Dental Floss May Have No Medical Benefits, Says AP Report (gizmodo.com)
Joe_NoOne quotes a report from Gizmodo: Flossing may not yield the protective benefits we've been told to expect. Since 1979, the federal government in the U.S. has recommended daily flossing, but by law these dietary guidelines, which are updated every five years, have to be supported by scientific evidence. Surprisingly -- and without any notice -- the federal government dropped flossing from its dietary guidelines this year, telling the Associated Press that "the government acknowledged the effectiveness of flossing had never been researched, as required." AP national writer Jeff Donn reports: "The two leading professional groups -- the American Dental Association and the American Academy of Periodontology, for specialists in gum disease and implants -- cited other studies as proof of their claims that flossing prevents buildup of gunk known as plaque, early gum inflammation called gingivitis, and tooth decay. However, most of these studies used outdated methods or tested few people. Some lasted only two weeks, far too brief for a cavity or dental disease to develop. One tested 25 people after only a single use of floss. Such research, like the reviewed studies, focused on warning signs like bleeding and inflammation, barely dealing with gum disease or cavities. Wayne Aldredge, president of the periodontists' group, acknowledged the weak scientific evidence and the brief duration of many studies...Still, he urges his patients to floss to help avoid gum disease. 'It's like building a house and not painting two sides of it,' he said. 'Ultimately those two sides are going to rot away quicker.'"
Fine, don't floss:
but when you have a conversation with me, and you a piece of rotting meat stuck in your mouth for days on end, I'm taking 10 paces back.
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1. Floss
2. Smell used floss
3. Be totally grossed out.
4. Floss forever.
Story is a beat up. They didn't say it makes no difference. They just said the research supporting it was old and had poor methodology, possibly because "Big Floss" didn't think "floss research" was worth throwing money at and people have been doing it anyway because it's common sense.
So another clickbait headline which will have AP's media customers rubbing their hands with glee, but misleading and many people will take away the wrong conclusion.
Intent is not required everywhere. If I did a tenth of what Clinton did, I would never work again in my industry, and that is a bare minimum.
They didn't say "flossing is useless". They said flossing hasn't been studied properly, so by law, they are not allowed to put it in the official guidelines.
So the true story is that the claim has not been prooven. This makes the claim not false, it makes it untested and unverified. As the claim still can be tested , it is not a believe. So the ball lies now in the corner of dental floss researchers to evaluate the effect in a real study.
British dental health is much better than in the US.
British Teeth Aren’t That Bad (American Teeth Are Far Worse)
Which countries' children have the worst teeth?
I'm in the civilian space. I just had to sign another one of the forms a couple weeks ago (you have to sign another one every time you're briefed on a new area). Believe me, those forms make it absolutely clear if you do what she did, expect to go to jail and also make it very clear that there is no statute of limitations on these sorts of things and if it comes to light you did it 40 years from now, you can still be prosecuted, spells out all the laws and everything and you must sign that you understand it all.
The most damning thing that you won't give a damn was the guidance given to all of us after the recommendation came out not to indict that if we did the same thing she did, we'd probably not get so lucky and we'd most probably go to prison. They couldn't officially say the reason was because we weren't as well connected, but it was heavily implied.
You don't know what you're talking about, I do. What she did was most certainly illegal. The forms make it clear the mishandling of classified material, maliciously or through carelessness are both illegal and can land you in prison for up to life. It can be grounds to have your clearance stripped for merely leaving a classified document out, unattended on your desk in a SCIF.