Here We Go Again!

First it was vaccinations that set the right-wingers off in to a tizzy… now it fluoride! The ultimate expert in fluoride that Trump wants to head the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is the anti-vaxxer politician RFK and he wants to ban it!

I agree we need more research but Trump and RFK are just fear mongering like they did with the COVID vaccine.

RFK Jr. says fluoride is ‘an industrial waste’ linked to cancer, diseases and disorders. Here’s what the science says

CNN

By Nadia Kounang, Carma Hassan and Deidre McPhillips

November 4, 2024

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. waded into another scientific debate on Saturday by saying Donald Trump’s administration would advise that fluoride be removed from the country’s water supplies if the former president wins Tuesday’s presidential election.

“On January 20, the Trump White House will advise all U.S​. water systems to remove fluoride from public water. Fluoride is an industrial waste associated with arthritis, bone fractures, bone cancer, IQ loss, neurodevelopmental disorders, and thyroid disease,” Kennedy, a former independent presidential candidate, wrote in a social media post.

I can just hear the MAGA gicen hi-fives… YEAH! While the rest of us are saying wait a minute fluoride works to stop tooth decay! That is why it is in tooth paste! Back in September a federal judge said hold it. Lets study this more.

US District Judge Edward Chen ruled that while it’s not clear whether the amount of fluoride typically added to water is causing a drop in IQ in kids, there’s enough risk to warrant investigation and that the EPA needs to take further action in regulating it. The ruling did not state what actions the EPA needs to take and the agency is currently reviewing the decision.

And experts agree that despite the politicization of the issue, more research is needed to understand the effect on fluoride – not just on young children, but for the general population as well.

Did you read that… “more research is needed” and that is all the anti-vaxxers needed.

“I think that health effects of fluoride on young children, particularly in the realm of neurodevelopment have been sufficiently studied such that it has now been identified that a hazard to child IQ is present. However, I would argue that more research is needed to better understand impacts of chronic low level fluoride exposure on adult health outcomes because that research is scarce,” Malin said.

But you know how Trump likes to stir up unrest to get his base riled up.

So what was the study and what was amount of fluoride that caused the negative findings about fluoride?

The program based its conclusion on studies involving fluoride levels at about twice the recommended US limit for drinking water.

You got that? Twice the recommended levels and a Canadian study found possible lower level might cause to children…

A 2019 study looking at Canadian mothers and children found for each additional 1 milligram per liter in concentration of fluoride in a mother’s urine, there was a 4.5-point drop in IQ in males. The study did not find such a significant association in female children, nor did it examine why boys were more significantly affected.

So the scientist say that we need to look at it some more while Trump and company are screaming take it out!

NBC News write,

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said Saturday that a Trump administration would, on its first day, “advise all U.S​. water systems to remove fluoride from public water.”

Kennedy linked fluoride to various illnesses, despite major medical associations supporting water fluoridation, which they say is safe and a benefit to public health.XXXXX

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“I’m going to let him go wild on health. I'm going to let him go wild on the food. I'm going to let him go wild on medicines,” Trump said at that event.

It is a knee jerk reaction designed to stir up the Ant-vaxxers!

That leads me to Trump and EPA.

Trump budget slashes EPA funding, environmental programs

The Hill

By Rebecca Beitsch and Rachel Frazin

February 10, 2020

President Trump’s proposed budget for fiscal 2021 calls for significant reductions to environmental programs at federal agencies, including a 26 percent cut to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

Trump’s budget would eliminate 50 EPA programs and impose massive cuts to research and development, while also nixing money for the Energy Star rating system. The Energy Star program, which measures the efficiency of electronics and appliances, would instead rely on businesses to pay a fee to participate in the program.

The proposed spending reductions mark the latest effort by the administration to chip away at government agencies focused on science, the environment and public lands. The White House budget request would reduce spending at the Energy Department by 8 percent and cut 16 percent from the Department of the Interior’s budget.

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At the EPA, the Trump budget would cut the Superfund program, tasked with cleaning up hazardous waste sites, by 10 percent, despite data showing the agency has the largest backlog of toxic waste cleanups in 15 years.

The billionaires are whispering in Trump’s ear… these programs are costing us money if we can just throw those regulations we can make billions by just throwing the stuff out like we did at Love Canal or the Rouge River just because it caught on fire in 1969 is no reason to stop us.

Yes, we have to stop this madness… vote Blue tomorrow! Vote Harris/Walz and vote yes on the Connecticut ballot question about mail-in ballots. Don’t believe the Republican “Big Lies!”