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'Conspiracy' Confirmed? Fluoride In Drinking Water May Lower Kids' IQs www.zerohedge.com/medical/conspiracy-confirmed-fluoride-drinking-water-may-lower-kids-iqs-judge-rules

1725 sats \ 15 comments \ @kepford 28 Sep news

I'm no dentist or chemist but this is good news IMO.

If fluoride is helpful with dental care lets give people choice and allow dental professionals to apply it and individuals to choose products that allow for its application.
Fluoride is an industrial waste product. Let's just add it to our water.

For years we have used a water filter to remove this and other materials from our tap water. I recommend everyone do this. The Berkey filters are great.

It is interesting to watch how worked up people get when you talk about fluoride in the water. People that seem to care about the free choice of individuals suddenly become authoritarians when it comes to this. Glad to see some attention being given to this subject. Government agencies have a long history of making bad decisions and often in the interests of industry insiders for unethical reasons. Hopefully local water providers stop this practice.

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141 sats \ 1 reply \ @anon 29 Sep

This is bunk btw. The data shows you need to drink 2.6 gallons (9,8 Liters) to have a measurable effect. Mathematically it would have to be 5x that to have a statistically significant effect. Who drinks 50 Liters a day every day?

Some people here are just paranoid sheep that believe everything that contrarian clickbait tells them to believe

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @kepford OP 29 Sep

It may not be significant enough to cause issues. It also may not be significant enough to cause benefits that we are told. That's why I prefaced my post as I did. I read what you shared in your comment as well.

88 sats \ 2 replies \ @Satosora 29 Sep

Its finally coming to a head where people are voicing what they think. For the longest time the government has said it was good, but the data shows different.

36 sats \ 1 reply \ @kepford OP 29 Sep

There are just to many cases where the government or "science" tells us something is one way and then... its not. I'm cool with updating because of new info. But I want to make those decisions, not have them made for me.

51 sats \ 0 replies \ @Satosora 29 Sep

Right, for the longest time they said margerine was just as good as butter. And butter is very unhealthy.

120 sats \ 1 reply \ @mbrochh1 29 Sep

If you want to learn what got us into this mess, read this:

https://brownstone.org/articles/murray-rothbard-on-forced-fluoridation/

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @kepford OP 29 Sep

Never knew Rothbard wrote about this. Thanks.

75 sats \ 0 replies \ @BTC_Bellzer 29 Sep

When cartoons are basically joking about it, you may have a problem

73 sats \ 0 replies \ @Malachi17T 29 Sep

I'm old enough to remember when schools made us swish with this stuff. It was terrible. The dentists used it as well.

PS: That zero hedge consent policy is a load of rubbish. I'd read an archived version of the site, but I'm not going to agree to all that shit, or click 100's of toggles.

41 sats \ 0 replies \ @LowK3y19 29 Sep

Wasn’t the first experiments with fluoride in water in the concentration camps?

40 sats \ 0 replies \ @rebel_nomad 29 Sep

Most of their shitty "science" is nothing but technology, and sometimes it seems that most of that is geared towards rendering everyone as weak, sick, desperate and ignorant as possible...

Easier to murder & rule over the masses, then!

34 sats \ 1 reply \ @Bell_curve 29 Sep

Since 1950 according to zero hedge article

Why do we need fluoride in water if we can get it from toothpaste?

At the same time I am not convinced it’s correlated with lower IQ. Reminds me of the theory about lead poisoning and lower impulse control.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @kepford OP 29 Sep

I'm not either.

30 sats \ 0 replies \ @DesertDave 29 Sep

I have heard it calcifies the third eye.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @zapsammy 29 Sep

next year we better stop tip-toeing around conspiracies. people will be faced with serious choices that will determine whether there shall be more mortality & morbidity or more honesty & forgiveness.