Read the article but it didn’t cover some questions. I haven’t paid that much attention to this because the stupid hurts. Thought this was settled science like iodine in salt.
What does mainstream science generally say about the efficacy and dangers of modern flouride in municipal water? What are the MAGAts regurgitating as the reason to ban flouride/what’s the conspiracy?
There was a study comparing test scores of children from a more poor neighborhood that had city water with fluoride and test scores of children from a rich neighborhood that had its own water system and didn’t add fluoride to the water. To nobody’s surprise, the rich kids tended to score higher on tests and those publishing the study claimed that it was the lack of fluoride in the rich kids’ water that helped them score higher, instead of the inherent food and home security and additional parental support that comes from wealth.
It’s been a crunch my Republican talking point for a while.
Some counties have voted to remove it based on inconclusive data from some studies on fluoride exposure.
Problematically the results to childhood issues require doses far in excess of the FDA minimum. More problematic is the example we have of a similar country with similar demographics removing it, and seeing a massive uptick in oral cavities. So we know what happens as a massive test already unintentionally from Canada.
The will do nothing but cause harm to long term oral health.
Read the article but it didn’t cover some questions. I haven’t paid that much attention to this because the stupid hurts. Thought this was settled science like iodine in salt.
What does mainstream science generally say about the efficacy and dangers of modern flouride in municipal water? What are the MAGAts regurgitating as the reason to ban flouride/what’s the conspiracy?
There was a study comparing test scores of children from a more poor neighborhood that had city water with fluoride and test scores of children from a rich neighborhood that had its own water system and didn’t add fluoride to the water. To nobody’s surprise, the rich kids tended to score higher on tests and those publishing the study claimed that it was the lack of fluoride in the rich kids’ water that helped them score higher, instead of the inherent food and home security and additional parental support that comes from wealth.
It’s been a crunch my Republican talking point for a while.
Some counties have voted to remove it based on inconclusive data from some studies on fluoride exposure.
Problematically the results to childhood issues require doses far in excess of the FDA minimum. More problematic is the example we have of a similar country with similar demographics removing it, and seeing a massive uptick in oral cavities. So we know what happens as a massive test already unintentionally from Canada.
The will do nothing but cause harm to long term oral health.