Hi everyone,
Normally even though I have bouts of mercury induced anger, nobody except my long suffering boyfriend must endure them. Until....
Well, last weekend my mother invited me to an art exhibition where her husband was exhibiting his beautiful artwork along with 15 other artists. Many of the guests were politicians, the local mayor etc.

My mother absolutely loves hob nobbing with these kinds of people. She doesn't particularly care about their philosophies or beliefs but just loves hanging out with them. Very shallow I assure you. Love her dearly cause she is my mother but honestly....

Anyway, cut to the chase. The entire evening she was dragging me around the gallery introducing me to this councillor, the local mayor, this barrister.. you get the picture. Anyway, towards the end of the evening she said very excitedly 'Rachel, there is one last person I must introduce you to'

Well, my mother introduced him as Peter....... who is one of our finest dentists here and one of our best politicians in the State. Mmm, I saw red for a second but then thought 'No, control yourself Rachel'. Anyway as soon as he found out that I was a nutrition researcher he probed as to whether or not I was a pro fluoride advocate as he is currently lobbying for mass fluoridation of our water supply (Queensland where I live is the only state left in Australia that doesn't have a fluoridated water supply).

I told him under no circumstances was I in favour of mass fluoridation and then I just so happened to throw in the comment, 'so I guess you have also been poisoning your patients for the last 30 years or so with mercury?'. Oooops did I say that!?! Yep!!

Well, then it really heated up. It was fantastic. Our heated disagreement went on for about 30 minutes. My mum would just look at him and then look at me, then look at him...... There was a tiny pause for about 30 secounds and my mum threw in ' Really Peter she isn't usually like this!'.

I think that he got a real shock. I guess that over the years some of his patients have probably feebly asked 'So is the mercury in these fillings harmful to my health?' which would have been rebutted by him with the usual 'Don't be silly. We have been using Mercury based fillings for over 100 years with an impeccable safety record......'. They probably backed down and said ' Well in that case if you say so go ahead'.

He tried all the standard tactics on me and I shot him down in flames!! I was ever so proud of myself because I know that I seriously made him really THINK for once about this issue. Thanks to Bex, Russ, Sandi, Andy Cutler and so many of you here on this forum I had an arsenal of information to back me up. I have also mailed him about 5 of my favourite peer reviewed journal articles just to stir him up even more.

Am I bad? Is this the mercury that would make a normally docile person act in such a way? Well, to be quite honest I don't really care. I utterly enjoyed myself!!!!