Incompetence Manifest
this post was submitted on 27 Jun 2025
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Honestly shocked the anti-chemotherapy wing of the wackos isn't bigger.
I know it's there, but it's not as major as the flourid/baccines/chemtrails sections.
Probably because the odds of getting cancer are pretty good and they're less confident that they won't ever need treatment for it.
I feel like the insidious goal is for companies to make Floride bottled watter to sell to the ones that can afford it.
It's literally for profit, not for safety
I want to find the guy that started all this mambo jambo about fluoride and the pineal gland and I'll calcify his kneecaps. whatever RFK and his type say about it is obscuring that he just believes in magic. not even cool witchy magic, just heehaw colorado white people magic.
It's a case of a little information being dangerous, poor education, and a massive case of Dunning-Kruger.
Fluoride, at much higher levels than found in drinking water, has some nasty effects on the human body. As the saying goes, the dose makes the poison. But people will hear about that, and think that smaller concentrations just mean that the effect is smaller/slower. A lot of people also want to believe in all sorts of insane conspiracies, so this fits in perfectly.
If it wasn't fluoride in the water, it would be (and often is, anyway) some other stupid idea. Like vaccines and autism.
The water isn't flouridated where I live. There is no particularly remarkable incidence of dental caries in children attributed to the lack of fluoride in drinking water. It might be good in places that are less developed or have poorer access to fluoridated toothpaste.
“But that’s a price I’m willing to pay”
No it's a price we're willing to pay... To insurance companies and dentists.
Five out of five dentists surveyed said this is stupid, but will be good for business.
"So they admit that taking out fluoride is bad, yet they'll still do it. Morons," said a fourth.