Once hailed as a triumph of public health, water fluoridation is now under intense attack in the US.
Despite decades of data proving its efficacy at protecting teeth from decay—particularly children’s teeth—two states have now banned the use of fluoride in public water, and communities around the country have followed suit or are considering doing the same. The current US health secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who is known for his anti-vaccine advocacy and for peddling conspiracy theories, has pledged to remove fluoride from US water.
Dentists
9/10 compromised dentists approve. The other one was taken out back and shot.
RFK is the type of person who exclusively takes advice from the 10th dentist.
9/10 dentists agree that toothpaste is helpful. The 10th dentist is complaining to RFKJ that the toothpaste is too spicy for his butthole when he masturbates using his toothbrush.
10th Dentist does their own research and isn’t weighed down by “certifications” and “licenses,” so you know they can think for themselves!
They never actually ask any dentists. They just say that because it sounds plausible. It’s a marketing gimmick that can’t really be proven wrong.
Just like slapping “Arsenic free” on your product when neither yours nor any of your competitors’ products would conceivably contain it.
The fine print often points to the cherry picked sponsored study. You don’t have to make up evil, it already exists.
Gather 100 doctors and you can get a unanimous vote. 10/10
The other one was taken out back and shot.
The coroner report will be suicide by head trauma. Poor dentist was so sad he shot himself in the back the head, twice!
I DIDNT vote for Republicans for their FISCAL Responsibility or CARING for Kids! I VOTED for them so I can BULLY my Child’s Classmates! Jesus LOVES me!
Which puts strain on parents. Which lessens the chance they’ll riot and speak out.
It’s all about controlling the population. 70% of Americans live paycheck to paycheck. They cannot risk their jobs by taking time off/ risking getting fired/ thrown in jail/ losing any pay/ losing benefits.
It’s obvious and it is fucking disgusting. When are we going to start eating the rich? Wondering on behalf of 70% of my fellow citizens…
You’re welcome to wrangle the cats and start the revolution!
RFK Jr has no idea what he is doing.
Yet he is allowed to continue
The important thing is that he gets rewarded for supporting Trump: issues such as the health of Americans are at best secondary to this.
His argument for fluoride being so harmful should be him coming out eating a tube of toothpaste and admitting to being a fucking moron.
don’t forget “cost” means “profit for insurance and providers and drug corps.”
“Inject 9.8 billion into the economy”
“extract” 9.8 billion from the “root” of all wealth, the working class. a very “toothy” proposition.
Not having to provide a service is most profitable that having to do it. Insurance companies are going to lose money with this.
I grew up drinking unfluoridated water (my family still has no access to municipal water) and have had dental problems all my life. Probably not the only reason, but I’m sure it didn’t help. These kids are in for literal and financial pain.
Hurting kids is a great conservative pastime despite how much time they spend thinking of the children.
Education, healthcare, social safety nets, school lunches…It’s pretty much conservatives punching children while saying “stop punching yourself,” the whole way down.
In the Netherlands we stopped adding fluoride to the drinking water decades ago, amongst others because of a dramatic increase in reported migraines and bowel issues during the period we did add it. Stopping fluoridation didn’t cause any dental Armageddon, so it is definitely possible to get rid of it without adverse effects.
However, and here lies the issue I suspect, we actually have decent dental care, brushing your teeth is ingrained from early on and almost every toothpaste contains fluoride.
I don’t think it’s common at all in Europe, yet people still have teeth.
Yep, although not as white but that’s because we’re not massive fans of all these whitening stuff.
wp:Water fluoridation by country#Europe
Out of a population of about three-quarters of a billion, under 14 million people (approximately 2%) in Europe receive artificially-fluoridated water. Those people are in the UK (5,797,000), Republic of Ireland (4,780,000), Spain (4,250,000), and Serbia (300,000).[27]
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Many European countries have rejected water fluoridation, including: Austria, Belgium, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Northern Ireland, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland,[68] Scotland,[69] Iceland, and Italy.[70] A 2003 survey of over 500 Europeans from 16 countries concluded that “the vast majority of people opposed water fluoridation”.[71]
Your population is probably just smart enough to brush their teeth
So the wealthy are increasingly scrambling for ways to differentiate themselves from the plebs.
The Internet shot education disparities in the foot, along with equal access measures. Looks and fashion are meaningless, because the first point means that personally made, bespoke items can be very high quality. Health can be maintained very cheaply, with the right knowledge.
So they are frustrating access to education and preventative health measures like vaccines and fluoride.
Fluoride seems to be getting banned in a lot of places that drink more Prime than water.
I don’t believe anyone actually drinks Prime. The displays I’ve seen never look like they’ve been touched.
I tried a few flavors when they first came out and the only thought I had was “wow this tastes like pure sugar.” So I can definitely see why kids would like them. I’ve seen a few kids begging their parents for them in stores too, which is crazy to me, because it’s just a shitty energy drink/electrolyte drink.
I see the neighbor kids drinking it from time to time when walking my dogs
Maybe the fad has passed. It was definitely a thing around here.
Invest in companies making filling materials 🤡
Parents, do your job in making your kids brush with normal toothpaste
Problem solved, everyone! After all, abstinence solved teen pregnancy.
It’s so American to put a price in this headline
Fluoridated water and occasional low-dose supplement tablets are the clear reason why I didn’t have a single major cavity until I was nearly 50, in spite of a lifetime of very haphazard, on-again off-again brushing habits. (yes, I’ve since standardized my brushing!). My parents and other relatives aren’t especially genetically resistant to tooth decay or anything, so I’m pretty sure it was the fluoride that gave me such a cavity-free first five decades. That certainly saved me money, but it saved the public health system even more. Meanwhile I still did my part to keep dentists in business with yearly cleaning and checkups.
Can we suggest to him T-Dazzle?
