Stop And Think For A Moment

Something the Republicans are not good at doing... thinking!

This whole thing about Fluoride is so stupid! In Connecticut something like 90% of the water is fluoridated since the 1950 so if all the crap the Republicans have been pushing on the gullible people to create fear of the liberals!

RFK Jr. wants fluoride out of drinking water. Oregon shows what’s coming.

Fluoride is added to water to strengthen teeth and reduce cavities, but communities are abandoning the practice because of health concerns.

The Washington Post

By Fenit Nirappil

November 20, 2024

Longtime denizens of this town of 20,000 recalled widespread tooth decay among children before the city council voted to add fluoride to the drinking water two decades ago. But a group of residents remained unconvinced.

They urged neighbors to do their own research, insisting it would reveal that the mineral embraced for generations to improve oral health was actually a dangerous substance that could harm their organs. They shared photos of corroded pipes and scarred arms they claimed were damaged by the acidic, concentrated form of fluoride. Was it worth $25,000 a year in tax dollars for the city to put fluoride in drinking water?

So what got them in to a tizzy?

Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a longtime vaccine skeptic whom President-elect Donald Trump has chosen to be his Health and Human Services secretary, wants communities across the nation to follow Lebanon’s lead. Days before the election, Kennedy said the Trump administration on Inauguration Day would advise water districts to remove fluoride, which he referred to on X as “an industrial waste associated with arthritis, bone fractures, bone cancer, IQ loss, neurodevelopmental disorders, and thyroid disease.” Despite medical organizations characterizing Kennedy’s assertions as unfounded, Trump quickly supported the idea in an NBC interview.

So tell me folks, if any of this crap is true don't you think we would have seen those problems by now after almost three quarters of a century with millions of people drinking tap water?

The discovery of fluoride’s oral health benefits traces to 1901, when a dentist in Colorado Springs noticed his patients had brown stained teeth that were oddly resistant to decay and cavities. It turns out they were drinking water from a spring with elevated levels of the naturally occurring fluoride mineral, which in large amounts can stain teeth.

Bacteria breaking down food produces acids that degrade the teeth, and fluoride works to replenish the lost minerals and strengthen the enamel.

Grand Rapids, Michigan, in 1945 became the first city in the world to fluoridate its drinking water, and long-term research showed the cavity rate plunged in children born after the mineral was added. By 1980, half of Americans drank fluoridated water after the practice rapidly gained steam — along with the conspiracy theories.

But the conspiracy theorists got them all wound up, facts just don't mater to them because everything is fake news except what they say! The conspiracy theories are not new...

The John Birch Society and Sen. Joseph McCarthy in the 1950s charged fluoridation was part of communist plots against the United States, arguments later parodied in the 1964 film “Dr. Strangelove.”

Take a look at Louisiana where fluoridating water is almost non-existent according to Dental Health Report 2024: Costs, Visits and Access Across the US the states with the highest number of teeth extractions...  Louisiana was #5 in the states with the most teeth taken out while Connecticut was 33.

Now take a look at who fluoridates their water...

And the nut job Trump wants to appoint to head the Health and Human Services is Robert F. Kennedy Jr. who is an anti-vaxxer.