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Posted on 05/22/2025 3:46:44 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
There’s a legitimate debate to be had about adding fluoride to drinking water. The practice has long been lauded as a victory for dental health because the chemical can strengthen tooth enamel and prevent cavities. But too much of it presents real health risks.
In other words, the issue is complicated and calls for nuance and respect for science. Unfortunately, many politicians — cheered on by Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. — have opted for over-the-top rhetoric and ham-fisted bans.
Kennedy has described fluoride, a naturally occurring mineral, as “industrial waste” and a “dangerous neurotoxin.” He has vowed to remove it from drinking water in the United States, and in recent weeks he has celebrated as two states — Utah and Florida — voted to ban it. “It makes no sense to have fluoride in our water,” he said after Utah’s vote. “The evidence against fluoride is overwhelming.”
In Florida, Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis cast the issue as one of personal freedom, describing fluoridation as “forced medication.” His state’s surgeon general, Joseph A. Ladapo, called it “public health malpractice.” Lawmakers in several other states are considering measures to curb use of the mineral.
At best, this anti-fluoride campaign is an overreaction. At worst, it is an attempt to distort research to promote ideology over public health.
It’s not unreasonable to question fluoridation practices; in the past half-century, dental hygiene has greatly improved, and most toothpaste products now contain fluoride, so it is less essential that it be in drinking water. As it was adopted in the second half of the 20th century, fluoridation reduced dental cavities among children by 40 to 70 percent, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention...
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Yep.
The problem with fluoridated water is you never know what the dose you are getting is.
Yes, they SAY that it is such and such but unless you test every single glass of water before you drink you have no idea.
Don’t we have fluoride toothpaste?
It has been my understanding for a long time that fluoride is industrial waste that can be sold so industry doesn’t have to dispose of it. At the same time it apparently is useful in helping prevent tooth decay. I can’t say which is the best way to use it. I guess it needs to be determined whether or not it’s usefulness outdoes it’s problems. I am of an advanced & my natural teeth went away some time ago.
Fluoride is yesterday’s teeth-saver. Today’s is hydroxyapetite, already the go-to in Japan, where teeth care is a national obsession.
Fluoride in drinking water has long been known to be a massive post war communist conspiracy to pollute our precious bodily fluids.
Arsenic is naturally occurring too. People should not consume it. It will sap and impurify out precious bodily fluids.
I was there in the 2nd half of the 20th century and kids were eating or sucking on candy all day long.
It’s a chemical lobotomy.
"It’s not unreasonable to question fluoridation practices; in the past half-century, dental hygiene has greatly improved, and most toothpaste products now contain fluoride, so it is less essential that it be in drinking water. "Yet the left was unwilling to have a 'nuanced' discussion at all, until RFK Jr. forced the issue. Until now, those even questioning the need for fluoride in water were deemed crazy. This article is leftists saying...'Tut, tut, tut...we know all about this topic. It requires nuance, which conservative cretins lack....'
I am waiting for Trump to say he likes air so liberals hold their breath.
Caffiene is the fuse, arsenic the flame and fluoride the bomb. So don’t you try to equate Pepsodent with Crest with me, mister. You may sell that jazz to another Fluorhead, but not to somebody who spends most of their time holding some kid’s head brushing his teeth while he vomits and retches sitting on a curbstone at four o’clock in the morning.”
He finishes with, “I’m the expert here!”
Joe Friday, DDS
the article is behind a paywall, so what it the anti-fluoride campaign really supposedly about?
Less essential? Essential is an absolute adjective. There are no grades to essential. If something is anything less than essential then it is not essential. Similar words are perfect, eternal and ultimate (so "more perfect union" in the Constitution is a grammar mistake). See https://kathysteinemann.com/Musings/absolute/ for more details
Yes...Most toothpastes now have flouride. And Dentist also have an office treatment available.
There are major problems with overdosing on fluoride.
Maybe, we should let people take fluoride in pills, in controlled matter, if the so desire, instead of forcing everybody to drink it.
“I am waiting for Trump to say he likes air so liberals hold their breath.”
Trump needs to GO 4 IT!.
,,, my mum gave me small white fluoride pills occasionally in the 1960s. Now it's been mandated in our water supplies (in New Zealand). We never used to have it in the water and we never had a nationwide bowel cancer screening program either.
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