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Doesn't he think the floride makes you stupid or get cancer or something?
I don't see how this decision based on his already broken logic is a topic worth focusing on - the guy thinks the amount of floride in tap water will give you autism - that is the real problem.
I've posted this before, but I went from growing up in a place with fluoride and having 1 cavity, to moving to a place as an adult that didn't.
Within a couple years, I had like 8 cavities and a root canal and it didn't stop there.
I didn't change anything else.
My oral hygiene habits were obviously not good, and I've finally got it better under control, but the change was dramatic.
And I was never a sugary drink person either.
another side with the obsession with the anti-flouride crowd is that it causes Perioral dermatitis, its extremely rare for flouride to cause that, from what ive looked at you would need to have so much flouride to become toxic people,which is found in people, also flourisis isnt a thing in adults only somehow children is consuming large amounts of toothpaste. the likely causes of people with PD from toothpaste is the whitening agents(peroxides, abrasives, etc)
Incompetence Manifest
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.
Downvoted for telling the truth.
Loads of developed areas quit putting fluoride in the drinking water a long time ago. It's mostly anglo nations that still do it. But overall there's no real difference because in developed nations people have access to fluoridated toothpaste, which is just as effective without the downsides of ingesting it.
And yes, at low dosages there's no real adverse effects, but in many places in the US the fluoride is put in at several times the recommended rate, at which point you could start seeing negative effects. But solving that incompetence is hard for an idiot like RFK.
Most European countries including Italy, France, Finland, Germany, Sweden, Netherlands, Scotland, Austria, Poland, Hungary and Switzerland do not fluoridate water. The UK still does it but may soon stop, because the NHS found there's no real health benefits anymore: https://www.manchester.ac.uk/about/news/future-benefits-of-water-fluoridation-not-guaranteed-study-shows/
“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.