What makes something poisonous is the dosage. Anything, in high enough dosages, is poisonous - even water.

We hear a lot from the anti-vaxers about mercury and aluminium, but what they don’t seem to realise is that a tuna fish sandwich has nine times the mercury than all vaccines combined, and that an antacid tablet has 1000 times the aluminium.

For anyone wanting to investigate both sides of the story here (or any story), I would recommend taking with you Sagan’s baloney detection kit (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hJmRbSX8Rqo).

There is a difference between an informed decision and a misinformed decision.

Thanks AJ...regarding dosage and poison.

Meant to mention that in my post.

Re water... "I think they'd prefer it to parasites and cholera."

Once you get past the fact that we are drinking recycled dinosaur urine the rest is easy.

WmTrevor,

Are you saying there's something wrong with recycled dinosaur urine?

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Final say from me.
No one is denying anybody the right to do whatever they want to. I have the right to kill and maim but I also have to accept the legal consequence of my actions.
If I choose not to "poison" my children then that is OK just as long as I accept the fact (consequence) they may either die of some horrible disease or live a healthy life.
However if the government decrees they may not attend preschool because they don"t have a "ticket" then they don't.
I think recent events with fluoridation says it all. You got it whether you wanted {liked) it or not.

Poirot, if you subscribe to endothermic theories the answer is no of course there is nothing wrong with recycled dinosaur urine - unless it is still warm.

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