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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago (2 children)

You are spouting assertions about what sounds right while ignoring bodies of scientific evidence contradicting your viewpoint. Just because Lemmy users are unwilling to spend 20-30 minutes digging through arixv to refute you doesn't make you right.

You don't want to go and look up and analyze evidence that floride in the water supply is beneficial, you want to just assert the hypothesis you've formed as likely truth without evidence and research into related work, and I can confidently say this because experts who spend their lives reading papers and writing them on this very topic are qualified to make these assertions.

...This "sounds right" line of thinking has been the bane of civilization for eons. You aren't breaking up some scientific fallacy like the church believing the Earth is the center of the universe, you are perpetuating one.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 day ago

while ignoring bodies of scientific evidence contradicting your viewpoint

They have viewpoints on topical application of fluoride and lack of effect on teeth after swallowing.

What bodies of evidence are contradicting these opinions?