‘We’ve added flouride to the water since the 60’s.’
And the opposition was from the John Birch Society and Little Old Ladies in Tennis Shoes, which is why it was a laugh line in ‘Dr. Strangelove’.
When I was in grade school we would go to the cafeteria (at schools on army bases) and we would get a toothbrush, some crap that was like strawberry-flavored valve grinding compound and a cup of water and a cup to spit in. Made me want to puke, but I did it like they told us cause my mom said it was good.
God bless her, I’ve hated dentistry ever since.
“And the opposition was from the John Birch Society and Little Old Ladies in Tennis Shoes, which is why it was a laugh line in ‘Dr. Strangelove’.”
It interferes with the thyroid gland, which controls metabolism and host of other functions.
There are some studies that show that fluoride inhibits testosterone in males, also.
“...the opposition was from the John Birch Society and Little Old Ladies in Tennis Shoes...
But as James Jackson Kilpatrick pointed out... the real conservative position was that individuals and their communities should decide what medicinal substances we put in our bodies and the intrusive Federal badgering was unnessary and and wrong. This case did not involve a viral epedemic that needed federal oversight.
Now will all the comedians apologize to the John Birch Society???