Misinformation campaigns increasingly target the cavity-fighting mineral, prompting communities to reverse mandates. Dentists are enraged. Parents are caught in the middle.
The culture wars have a new target: your teeth.
Communities across the U.S. are ending public water fluoridation programs, often spurred by groups that insist that people should decide whether they want the mineral — long proven to fight cavities — added to their water supplies.
The push to flush it from water systems seems to be increasingly fueled by pandemic-related mistrust of government oversteps and misleading claims, experts say, that fluoride is harmful.
“The anti-fluoridation movement gained steam with Covid,” said Dr. Meg Lochary, a pediatric dentist in Union County, North Carolina. “We’ve seen an increase of people who either don’t want fluoride or are skeptical about it.”
There should be no question about the dental benefits of fluoride, Lochary and other experts say. Major public health groups, including the American Dental Association, the American Academy of Pediatrics and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, support the use of fluoridated water. All cite studies that show it reduces tooth decay by 25%.
Except fluoride isn’t a contaminate.
According to what?
Every single scientific study regarding the use of fluoride in drinking water to help protect oral health. Link me a scientific study that proves flouride in drinking water is harmful.
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You’re not going to argue sources because you don’t have any and your account is a 28 day old troll account.
I’m not going to argue sources because it’s a waste of time.
You’re just saying I’m a troll because you don’t want to acknowledge how you treat science like a religion.
Goodbye.
I’m glad Voyager puts baby icons on new accounts; it usually resembles how they look in real life.
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Please show this consensus.
https://nyamcenterforhistory.org/2015/10/23/50-years-ago-building-the-case-against-lead/
Have fun reading. You could stand to brush up on your history if you have no idea about the lies surrounding lead.
Ah yes, comparing lies from for profit companies to actual science done by medical providers is a very valid comparison.
Wait, not it isn’t. The article shows how real science overcame blatant lying.
You played yourself.
At the time, people couldn’t tell the difference.
That’s my point.
Do you just believe all scientific consensus as fact?
It’s more useful to follow scientific consensus and update your reasoning in the presence of new evidence than it is to label something a contaminate while providing no data to support that position.
So no scientific consensus then.
He has lots of conjecture and heresay. Those are kinds of evidence.