Summary
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced that a Trump administration would prioritize removing fluoride from public water systems, a position at odds with major health organizations like the CDC, the American Dental Association, and the American Academy of Pediatrics, all of which endorse water fluoridation as safe and beneficial for dental health.
Despite Kennedy’s controversial stance on health and environmental issues, which includes previously debunked claims linking vaccines to autism, Trump has praised his passion, stating that Kennedy would have significant freedom to influence health policy if Trump were elected.
Let’s bring back leaded gasoline and asbestos too!!
Maybe it’s the brain worm talking because the fluorine would kill it?
This made me laugh so hard, I spit my drink all over my desk. Well played, sir.
What fucking year is this? And while he’s at it, that horses’s ass can get tinfoil hats into circulation to protect against <dumb old ass boomer conspiracy theory bullshit>
God damn it, will all these fossils with their lead poisoned brains just die already?
What year is this? This was a scare back in the 1970.
Un-fortify the wheat now!
/s
“Precious bodily fluids…”
That’s about the time the worm ate through his brain and stopped any further thinking.
It already starved to death.
Ignore that buzzing noise.
It’s just the sound of 200,000 dentists rubbing their hands together at the thought of all the extra money they’re going to make.
A lot of people don’t drink tap water so I don’t think there would be much of a surge
Is fluoride the new Frog-engayening agent? 🐸
Flouride makes teeth white. White light passing through a prism makes a rainbow. Therefore, fluoride makes my teeth gay.
Isn’t this a state and municipality decision?
Personally I am in favor of removing floyride from water. I think it’s stupid.
But I am fine with replacing that with free fluoride toothpaste for children.
Either way that is not a federal decision to make.
Make Cavities Great Again
The crackpots coincidentally turned out to be right. There is a measurable effect on IQ in areas that fluoridate vs those that don’t.
Additionally, from what I’ve read there doesn’t seem to be a noticeable health benefit.
I think it has a lot to do with how our nutrition and dental care has improved in many ways since they decided adding fluoride to water would benefit people.
It is one point I will give to the conspirturds and nutcases, but a small point. None of this is critical or dire, the effects are marginal and nobody is going to really notice a difference whatever happens. I wish they could have been this concerned about people’s health and well-being when we were you know… being ravaged by an actual lethal virus that was killing millions and is still active and harming people every day.
Dude. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/ger.12294 (and many other) actual research paper and meta analysis are saying you’re wrong.
Did you do your own research on google?
How about making sure 100% of US residents have access to clean, safe tap water first? Eliminate lead and forever chemicals. I don’t feel strongly about fluoride, I do feel strongly you should be able to drink water from your kitchen sink without having to worry.
There actually is a huge push to replace ALL lead service lines in the next few years. Also the EPA has extra funding for treatment of “emerging contaminants” which includes PFAS. Republicans are trying (and succeding) to reduce this funding.
Wow are you a commie? Tap water should only contain flammable gas from nearby fracking plants! Yeehaw
That’s how you know what FreedomTM tastes like!
See that would require 100% of Americans to be rich enough for these chucklefucks to care about us.
In the universe of bad and crazy things that brain worm addled RFK jr. would do, this is one of the least bad and crazy.
You know, I just love how no one is addressing why they think this is a bad idea with facts, they just rush to insult him. If this doesn’t prove how toxic of a political climate we’re in right now, I don’t know what will.
The facts are presented and linked in the article.
Major public health groups such as the American Dental Association, the American Academy of Pediatrics and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention support water fluoridation, citing studies showing that the mineral helps fight cavities. Health groups also emphasize that the practice is safe.
It’s not that simple. There are still concerns such as the idea of involuntary mass medication, and the negative health effects that come with fluoride-laced water, such as fluorosis just to name one. Also, it’s being argued that putting fluoride in the water supply is not a good way of dealing with cavities. What are some core causes of cavities? Bad dental hygiene, too much sugary foods, and whatnot. Why not focus on these core issues instead of using a blanket solution that has a chance of causing health problems to people? Are you a vegetable that you have to have the government take care of your teeth for you because you can’t do it yourself?
Again, if you just read the article it covers these points. It discusses that the CDC does not mandate fluoride and it’s not ubiquitous. It talks about fluorosis, and the health benefits of fluoride.
I can of course take care of my own teeth, but that’s anecdotal. If the data suggests that fluoride in water is a safe way to reduce the prevalence of dental issues, I’m for it.
If you believe fluoride is good for you, then buy it and consume it privately by yourself. Advocating for everyone else to have it involuntarily because you think it’s good for you is selfish, because not everyone wants it in the water supply. Fluoride is not a magic thing that solves all your problems. It comes with health concerns.
Fluoride is not a magic thing that solves all your problems.
Source? It’s funny how you come here without proof insulting everybody.
Literally just look up “negative effects of fluoride” and start reading. It’s not that hard.
Dude I can look up “faked moon landing” and start reading, that doesn’t mean what I’m reading isn’t written by someone like you; who is lacking critical thinking skills.
Do you think you can search Google and do a better job than the whole of your government and governments around the world. Even in countries that don’t get along with your own.
Just read the article. The fact are right there backed by science and major health orgs.
Im JuSt AsKiNg QuEsTiOnS
Ok.
Roe v Wade: “This should be decided by the states!”
Fluoride in water: “This should be decided by the federal government!”
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They’re proposing to ban vaccines too, and they’re not mentioning particular vaccines, just “vaccines”. So no healthcare for trans people or pregnant women, and no vaccines. It’s only a matter of time before someone convinces them antibiotics are the devil’s work.
I mean…
At this point let’s just tell them we forbid them from drinking arsenic because, even though it massively increases testosterone production, all liberal science says most humans aren’t strong enough to handle it.
Fucking let moron nature take its course.
Except they’ll take a lot of us with them. We need herd immunity, clean air and water, safe roads. They’re going to fuck us all with their idiocy.
You can have safety, or you can have improvement via evolution.
You can’t have both.
You can actually, evolution is driven by selective reproduction, not selective survival. Yes, reproduction is usually tied to survival, but natural selection would still work even if everyone always lived to 80.
It would not select for traits useful for survival though, it would most likely select for traits that get you laid.
This requires us to prevent people from reproducing, we have to pick and choose who can breed.
Gonna put that in the “probably not a great idea” category.
You have seen Idiocracy, yes? About selective reproduction.
I’ve seen the kind of people that reproduce well. Most of them are both immoral and not very smart.
My cousins’ parents are a good exception, though. They are exactly the kind of people that should have children, and their daughters too. My parents, on the contrary, were the kind of people about whom I’d never say that. It’s a pure miracle I’ve turned out at least kinda similar to a human.
On the contrary, the best people I know personally of my generation either have problems they haven’t yet solved or are gay.
OK, then thinking about myself, I actually think I’d not be that bad of a parent, in case one of those strange creatures likes me enough, but it would be really hard.
They’d probably start putting it in the water.
Nothing says pro life like returning to 18th century childhood mortality rates 😎
someone convinces them antibiotics are the devil’s work.
Antibiotics are proof of evolution, since the various microorganisms create resistances to vaccines.
Antibiotics shouldn’t be used as easily as people think, though. Because, ahem, antibiotic resistance is a thing.
It’s a responsible position to only use antibiotics when you really need it. Not when you have cold. EDIT: just in case, by cold I mean cold, not covid
That’s the kind of responsible and sensible advice the Republicans would never give. It requires too much nuance.
I don’t think I’ve heard anything responsible and sensible from politicians with chances to succeed in a two party system.
Anti-what? Ohhh you mean Satan Pills.
Breaking: Trump vows to repeal Ohm’s Law: “States should handle resistance at the local level.”
Not putting fluoride in the water isn’t the same as prohibiting it. If you want to drink it or not simply becomes optional, rather than mandatory. Give people a choice to make with their healthcare provider, otherwise you’re forcing medicine down peoples throat.
https://pharmacy.amazon.com/Sodium-Fluoride-Chewable-Tablet/dp/B084BTB8TY?
Fluoride isn’t medicine.
Violating your principals for some undetectable flouride in the water is a small price to pay for an entire area of people to receive better dental prospects.
Flip this round. You still have a choice, buy bottled water.
Oh stfu
Nobody is forcing you to drink tap water.
That’s because they don’t actually have principles.
Welp, that explains the parasites.
Don’t we have real problems to solve? Why are Republicans always making up new shit?
Because Democrats tend to agree with reality, so if republicans want to oppose them they must insist that reality isn’t true.
Distraction 101. If we’re too busy fighting about stuff like this, we won’t come after them for the stuff they absolutely do not want to address. More often than not, the other side doesn’t really want to do the hard work either, so it’s easy to just fight with them about the meaningless shit and get credit for being the reasonable ones. Meanwhile the homeless camps get larger, the health care gets more expensive, the one income family with a pension for retirement becomes a two income family juggling multiple part time jobs with no benefits, higher education becomes something that traps you in a lifetime of loan debt, and we spend billions to elect people who will address none of it.
Pick up a fiddle and enjoy the view of Rome.
Sometimes I hope I’ll see a starship Enterprise, but it’s looking more like Bell riots and Eugenics wars for the rest of my lifetime.
Vote blue and punch a nazi whenever you can, be the change you want to see.
Fluoride laced water IS a problem that is currently being debated about. Stop being ignorant.
People like you are the reason I want a forum that makes you read the articles before you can comment on them.
More like rehashing old shit. Vaccines are pretty settled science as well.
Mental health.
