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Misinformation campaigns increasingly target the cavity-fighting mineral, prompting communities to reverse mandates. Dentists are enraged. Parents are caught in the middle.
The culture wars have a new target: your teeth.
Communities across the U.S. are ending public water fluoridation programs, often spurred by groups that insist that people should decide whether they want the mineral — long proven to fight cavities — added to their water supplies.
The push to flush it from water systems seems to be increasingly fueled by pandemic-related mistrust of government oversteps and misleading claims, experts say, that fluoride is harmful.
“The anti-fluoridation movement gained steam with Covid,” said Dr. Meg Lochary, a pediatric dentist in Union County, North Carolina. “We’ve seen an increase of people who either don’t want fluoride or are skeptical about it.”
There should be no question about the dental benefits of fluoride, Lochary and other experts say. Major public health groups, including the American Dental Association, the American Academy of Pediatrics and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, support the use of fluoridated water. All cite studies that show it reduces tooth decay by 25%.
Remember when chucklefucks said that as WHO went “Covid is serious and we are about to have a pandemic” and then millions needlessly died because they decided to put their politics above common sense?
But sure let’s keep cherry picking vague notions of experts being wrong as if that somehow invalidates the over half a century of info we have on fluoride in our water supply with a sample size equal to literally every American who ever consumed tap water. That makes sense.
Complains about cherrypicking as he cherrypicks.
Lol. Jk. They’re right about most things, but are they right about everything?
That’s the problem with treating science like a religion.
Since when was that the bar for anything, and when did anyone say they are right about everything?