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[–] [email protected] 31 points 2 days ago (2 children)

The people who need to hear this sadly would not believe that too much water can kill you even if you showed them someone die from it, I fear. I'd also be shocked if they read "water poisoning" and didn't think of poisoned water.

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I feel like I woke up in the movie Dr. Strangelove

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 days ago

I can no longer sit back and allow Communist infiltration, Communist indoctrination, Communist subversion, and the international Communist conspiracy to sap and impurify all of our precious bodily fluids.

Second time I got to post this today, unfortunately because it's almost ceased being satire.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 days ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

Not to mention there are many natural sources of fluoride which can contain greater concentrations of it than what is in tap water. The ocean has a concentration of fluoride that is in the range of 1.2 to 1.4 ppm, compared to the standard rate of fluoride of drinking water, which is 0.5–1 ppm

edit: I didn't say that people drink ocean water, my point was about the ubiquitous nature of fluoride. The majority of life lives in the ocean, so if fluoride really was as toxic as some people say it is, there would be a lot less life on Earth. There are many lakes and other water sources that people have been drinking from for ages which naturally contain higher amounts of fluoride than what is in fluoridated tap water.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago (3 children)

I don't understand your point.

Nobody drinks the ocean. Fluoride is barely active topically. Most humans rarely if at all swim in the ocean.

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[–] [email protected] -4 points 2 days ago (3 children)

The question about this is that the same can be said about lead. Do we want to consume that?

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Next headline will be how fluoride contributes to autism and it will have just as much evidence as the vaccine bit does. How is this even a thing? Is ground zero on this RFK?

Meanwhile, all the people who can’t afford dentists will have even worse teeth going forward. Make America’s teeth British again.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (5 children)

Well look at the statistics:

Fluoride:

  • Water fluoridation in the United States began in the 1940s
  • By 1949, nearly 1 million Americans were receiving fluoridated tap water
  • In 1951, the number jumped dramatically to 4.85 million people
  • By 1952, the number nearly tripled again to 13.3 million Americans
  • In 1954, the number exceeded 20 million people
  • In 1965 an additional 13.5 million Americans gained access to fluoridated water.
  • By 1969, 43.7% of Americans had access to fluoridated tap water.
  • In 2000, approximately 162 million Americans (65.8% of the population served by public water systems) received optimally fluoridated water
  • 2006: 69.2% of people on public water systems (61.5% of total population)
  • 2012: 74.6% of people on public water systems (67.1% of total population)

Autism:

  • First recognised in the 1940s
  • During the 1960s and 1970s, prevalence estimates were approximately 0.5 cases per 1,000 children.
  • Prevalence rates increased to about 1 case per 1,000 children in the 1980s.
  • 2000: 1 in 150 children
  • 2006: 1 in 110 children
  • 2014: 1 in 59 children
  • 2016: 1 in 54 children
  • 2020: 1 in 36 children

Seems pretty clear cut to me.

/s because people think I posted this in seriousness.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Damn, I guess fluoridated water also then caused computers, world population growth and the eradication of polio.

Idk if this is a troll post or this person never heard of the fact that correlation does not equal causation.

Case and point.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Not sure if you're being sarcastic but if not, then I'm about to blow your fucking mind

STOP EATING RICE!

NAME YOUR DAUGHTER SARAH, IT'S THE ONLY WAY TO SAVE THE AMAZON! AND WHATEVER YOU DO...

...DO NOT NAME THEM TRISTEN

If we shut down flights to Antarctica, inflation would've been solved yesterday.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 days ago (2 children)

This is, and I don't say this lightly, one of the dumbest conclusions I've ever seen someone jump to.

Might as well say that fluoride in the water caused software developers, lmao.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Satire, I think.

Classic ice cream sales and violent crimes in summer correlation.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago

It's too much like the real anti-fluoride arguments, man. I can't recognize it, man.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 days ago

Actually, software developers cause autism

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago

Let's ignore the better diagnosis processes and just take two trending upward statistics and make a broad correlation and call it fact.

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

Toxicology isn't a real profession. These people are run by big toxicity. For real water advice you want a homeopath.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 days ago (2 children)

i know this guy has a fancy degree and everything, but is he really as reliable a source as rfk junior? you don’t need fluoride when you have an army of worms ready to eat any kinds of bacteria that may enter your system.

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[–] [email protected] 89 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Oh yeah? And what if someone ignores that, simply lies and says it's toxic? I'm convinced!

[–] [email protected] 35 points 2 days ago

And both of these people telling me about fluoride in water are both experts in their field. One an expert toxicologist, and the other an expert liar. Now I don't know what to believe.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Used to be a thing about it turning your teeth green

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago

I had the misfortune of eavesdropping on a conversation recently where some guy who was working in a bourgeoisie brewing facility recently switched jobs to work at a waste water treatment center and he was advocating for removing fluoride from water with a level of rationale that I have to assume he picked up from co-workers parroting information they heard on the Joe Rogan podcast.

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