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Fish shit in it.

it's a weird issue to me, because it's a really out-dated conspiracy theory.

most people these days have been marketed away from tap water and only drink bottled stuff, which doesn't fluoridate its water. and the people that are too poor to drink the bottled stuff probably have more to worry about when it comes to the pipes carrying the water.

fluoridation was started a long time ago, before a lot of people brushed their teeth with toothpaste. which is the next funny thing to me. why do we still need fluoride in water if people use toothpaste now, and why are people opposed to having it in their water when they consume it voluntarily multiple times every day?

you want to address water issues in america? start with fucking michigan. start with the lead pipes in low income areas. address the science that shows a link between lead poisoning and crime.

Sweden also has significantly more robust social safety nets, higher income, homogenous population among many other things that allow this to work out. The US has entire regions where dental care basically isn’t a thing and I don’t think it’s ok to be harming our already very vulnerable populations and leaving kids with painful, expensive dental issues that could have been prevented that can contribute to things like poor eating, malnutrition, blood infections, distracting pain and discomfort

Don't you have affordable dental care and time off from work? Not exactly apples and apelsiner.

Even though it has that delicious lead sweetness?

Fluoride is certainly needed for cavity protection. But. Fluoride was added to water before its mechanism of action was understood.

It was known that people who had naturally-present fluoride in their wells had fewer cavities, so they started emulating the fluoride concentration in city water. Which worked.

But.

We have since learned that fluoridated toothpaste and mouthwash provide more than sufficient quantities of fluoride, such that there is no longer a significant difference between people with fluoridated public water supplies and people with private wells lacking fluoride.

Fluoridated water isn't harmful. But it's not actually beneficial anymore.

They know it's bullshit, they're just using it to sell the idea to morons.

The point is actually the increase in cavities. They want to make it even more expensive to be poor, with the ultimate goal of starving out anyone who isn't profitable.

And we're only five months in.