Posted on 09/27/2024 9:33:26 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
A federal judge has ordered the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to further regulate fluoride in drinking water because high levels could pose a risk to the intellectual development of children.
The ruling, which came with little fanfare, appeared to validate one of the longest-running so-called conspiracy theories in America’s alt-right subculture—that the government’s use of fluoridation, especially in specific communities, might be part of a deliberate attempt to lower intelligence in order to create a more compliant and subservient population for the New World Order.
It follows a series of recent vindications for skeptics after propagandist media have been proven wrong in falsely declaring things like COVID vaccine hesitancy, the Russia-collusion hoax, the Hunter Biden laptop coverup and the Joe Biden mental acuity coverup/coup to be baseless “conspiracy theories” right up until the point that they were proven true.
If former President Donald Trump were to be reelected and allow Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to declassify files related to his family, several other such theories surrounding significant 20th-century milestones might also be exposed, including the decision to force out then-President Richard Nixon for threatening to reveal who killed his one-time campaign rival, former President John F. Kennedy.
U.S. District Judge Edward Chen cautioned that it’s not certain that the amount of fluoride typically added to water is causing lower IQ in kids, but he concluded that mounting research points to an unreasonable risk that it could be. He ordered the EPA to take steps to lower that risk, but didn’t say what those measures should be.
It’s the first time a federal judge has made a determination about the neurodevelopmental risks to children of the recommended U.S. water fluoride level, said Ashley Malin, a University of Florida researcher who has studied the effect of higher fluoride levels in pregnant women.
She called it “the most historic ruling in the U.S. fluoridation debate that we’ve ever seen.”
The judge’s ruling is another striking dissent to a practice that has been hailed as one of the greatest public health achievements of the last century. Fluoride strengthens teeth and reduces cavities by replacing minerals lost during normal wear and tear, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Last month, a federal agency determined “with moderate confidence” that there is a link between higher levels of fluoride exposure and lower IQ in kids. The National Toxicology Program based its conclusion on studies involving fluoride levels at about twice the recommended limit for drinking water.
The EPA—a defendant in the lawsuit—argued that it wasn’t clear what impact fluoride exposure might have at lower levels. But the agency is required to make sure there is a margin between the hazard level and exposure level. And “if there is an insufficient margin, then the chemical poses a risk,” Chen wrote in his 80-page ruling Tuesday.
“Simply put, the risk to health at exposure levels in United States drinking water is sufficiently high to trigger regulatory response by the EPA” under federal law, he wrote.
An EPA spokesperson, Jeff Landis, said the agency was reviewing the decision but offered no further comment.
In 1950, federal officials endorsed water fluoridation to prevent tooth decay, and they continued to promote it even after fluoride toothpaste brands hit the market several years later.
Fluoride can come from a number of sources, but drinking water is the main source for Americans, researchers say. Nearly two-thirds of the U.S. population currently gets fluoridated drinking water, according to CDC data.
Since 2015, federal health officials have recommended a fluoridation level of 0.7 milligrams per liter of water. For five decades before that, the recommended upper range was 1.2. The World Health Organization has set a safe limit for fluoride in drinking water of 1.5.
Separately, the EPA has a longstanding requirement that water systems cannot have more than 4 milligrams of fluoride per liter of water. That standard is designed to prevent skeletal fluorosis, a potentially crippling disorder which causes weaker bones, stiffness and pain.
But in the last two decades, studies have suggested a different problem: a link between fluoride and brain development. Researchers wondered about the impact on developing fetuses and very young children who might ingest water with baby formula. Studies in animals showed fluoride could impact neurochemistry cell function in brain regions responsible for learning, memory, executive function and behavior.
The court case, argued in U.S. District Court in San Francisco, started in 2017. The lead plaintiff was Food & Water Watch, a not-for-profit environmental advocacy organization. Chen paused the proceedings in 2020 to await the results of the National Toxicology Program report, but he heard lawyers’ arguments about the case earlier this year.
“In our view, the only effective way to eliminate the risk from adding fluoride chemicals to water is to stop adding them,” said Michael Connett, the plaintiffs’ lead attorney, in an email Wednesday.
Adapted from reporting by the Associated Press
Gen. Jack D Ripper was right all along. Except the enemy wasnt 8,000 miles away.
Brig. Gen. Jack D. Ripper was right, as usual.
I recall that Mr Welch and the JBS were fighting the addition of flouride in public water supplies for many years.
Since when are judges scientific/medical experts?
Have you ever seen a democrat drink a glass of water, Mandrake?
Public is euphemism for government water. Do people still drink much government water? In many countries, that is never even considered. It's fine for the shower and toilet, but government cannot be trusted with anything children ingest. If parents want the tooth enamel protecting effects of fluoride antibacterial chemicals for their children, putting them in sugar free chewing gum would be far more effective.
I don’t exactly see much evidence that doctors today are medical experts either.
BTW, when fluoride (a poisonous by product of atomic weapons production) was introduced, it was ONLY proven that it was useful in preventing tooth decay. No health effects beyond that one goal was studied. Not one.
dont know about IQ, but when I went from a non fluoridated municipal water source to a fluoridated municipal water source my adhd took off, and my concentration went downhill.
Well, leftism and mental disorders do go hand in hand.
In a mirror ruling, the judge ordered the Department of Education to close all US Education facilities and stop funding thru the government.
The toxic nature of eduction in the US has lowered the IQs of all children not terminated by abortions.
The ruling directs the dismissal of all current employees, with college degrees and working in ther education field, with lifetime bans.
The Judge has stated the evidence of the DNC talking over education has resulted in teachings contrary to the founding of the Nation, e.g., one nation under God.
Becasue the judge is an Agnostic-Jew and married to a ProAbortion-Catholic, he directed the Southern Baptist Convention to become the proponent for K-12 education in the US, so as to recuse himself from any affiliations or conflicts of interest.
Peace On Earth
Explains a lot.
Bingo. Public schools also causes I.Q. to drop.
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