- cross-posted to:
- usa@midwest.social
- cross-posted to:
- usa@midwest.social
The new research is the first to measure community water fluoridation exposure during childhood and any potential impact on cognition up to age 80.
The paper is here
The new research is the first to measure community water fluoridation exposure during childhood and any potential impact on cognition up to age 80.
The paper is here
…Why? Because Berkeley has non-fluoridated water, after mass encouragement from professors at UC Berkeley.
As to why the aluminum industry… THAT’S THE EXCLUSIVE, AND I DO MEAN THE EXCLUSIVE REASON THE US STARTED FLUORIDATING WATER. There was no other reason. Sodium Fluoride is toxic waste that is a by product from refining aluminum. It cost the industry millions (in 1920s month) actively cleaning up and properly disposing of that waste according to the few ecological protections present in the day.
Then hey, Fluoride is useful in dentistry in high amounts, why don’t they sell to that industry? So they did. And then someone had the clever idea of paying off dentists to help lobby for water fluoridation, as was SO INCREDIBLY COMMON AT THE TIME (sugar, milk, leaded gasoline, cigarettes, lead paint, lead pipes). And so they got a way to get PAID to dump their toxic waste. They just had to make sure it was under a certain concentration; which just meant they aggressively pushed fluoridation across the US and Canada so their margins would be higher. Eventually fluorine became the easiest way to dump that particular chemical, and despite the extra cost for that step of refining (which resulted in sodium metal as a bonus sellable item) it is still more profitable than having to pay to properly dispose of the material.
Yeah, you’re really not fighting the allegation that you just wanted to rant. Literally no one brought up Berkeley.
Supposing your unhinged rant is at all accurate, why does any of that matter in the context of the article?
Why does the incredibly shady history of Fluoridation, the long-standing left-wing fight against it, matter in the context of an absolute ninnyhammer saying it’s a right-wing conspiracy?
I don’t know, let’s use our critical thinking skills here for a minute little buddy.
Lol nice condescension, it almost makes you seem like you aren’t just a nutcase screaming into the void.
Never called it a rightwing conspiracy. Continue constructing your strawman, little buddy.
“I love how brainwashed right wingers pretend to be an authority on gender and sex, then believe shit like this.”
These don’t contradict one another.
It can be believed by right wingers without being created by or even predominantly associated with right wingers.
The history of fluoridation is only shady if you have no understanding of the topic, sweetie.