I remember when they announced they were adding fluoride to our water and some people protested... I thought they were nuts.
We all bear the guilt of “going along with” what authority figures told us to do.
Not quite “we all”. I was instrumental in keeping fluoride from being injected into the Honolulu water system way back in the late 60’s. A prominent dentist was a big time advocate but I got into a conversation with him and I explained that he did not have a foolproof metering system that could absolutely guarantee no overload. And it was already well known that the concentration level was critical——too rich and the whole population would start losing teeth.
Then I explained to him that he would be the first to go if anything bad happened to my family’s teeth attributable to fluoride. He shut the bleep up and within months everyone had forgotten about injecting fluoride.. My own dentist commented to me later that it was amazing how fast the whole idea had disappeared.
Decades later I was instrumental in getting rid of USPO lick stamps. Another example of how easy it would be for a dirty batch to hurt millions of people-—and I explained that to them——politely of course. Keep your head on a swivel. There is stupid stuff out there. And , by the way, Do not step up to a 5G phone. But if you do keep it 2 feet away from your punkin. Between 5G phones and clot shots we are going to lose a generation of people.