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Public water systems add fluoride to drinking water to help strengthen teeth. This is considered one of the great public health achievements, credited as a major factor in the decline in tooth decay in the second half of the 20th ...

As cities and counties across the state debate the issue, the Florida Senate on Wednesday passed a bill that would prevent local governments from adding fluoride to water supplies. The proposed ban, included in a broad bill dealing with the ...

AI-assisted summaryColumbus officials support continued water fluoridation despite Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s opposition.What Columbus does with its water impacts the region as Columbus supplies water for most of Franklin County.Columbus leaders say they support continuing to add fluoride ...

Manatee County leaders are set to debate whether the county should end its decades-long practice of adding fluoride to drinking water this week. An ordinance that is up for a vote at a board meeting on Tuesday would bring the ...

Despite opposition from dentists and national health organizations, Utah last month became the first state in the nation to ban fluoride in public drinking water, joining more than 170 municipalities in America that have done so based on health fears.The ...

Get the Popular Science daily newsletter💡 Email address Sign up Thank you! Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the recently appointed secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS), has long promoted unfounded conspiracy theories regarding community ...

HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to end fluoridation of U.S. drinking water HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. plans to phase out water fluoridation, citing overstated dental benefits and emerging evidence of health risks, including lower childhood IQ and ...

Why do we add fluoride to water? Because it helps keep teeth strong, replacing minerals that are lost during regular wear and tear. Grand Rapids, Mich., became the first city in the world to add fluoride to its public water ...

Last week’s Clearwater City Council meeting reminded me (again) that while the pandemic is over, the damage is not. Council members heard a presentation Monday on the merits of fluoridating the drinking water supply. I call it a “presentation,” for ...

More cities and counties across the U.S. are moving to ban fluoride in public drinking water after Utah became the first state in the country to do so.The Miami-Dade County commissioners voted 8-2 on Tuesday to stop adding fluoride to ...

Utah has become the first state in the U.S. to ban adding fluoride to its public drinking water systems as concerns about the decades-long practice continue to grow, fueled in part by the Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) movement.Republican Gov ...

Utah Gov. Spencer Cox signed a bill Thursday banning fluoride in public water systems, making his state the first in the nation to do so. The legislation appears to be the product of health misinformation and a decline in trust ...

Utah is the first state to ban fluoride in public drinking water, The New York Times reported. GOP Gov. Spencer Cox signed the legislation into law on March 27, prohibiting cities and communities from adding the mineral to their water ...

MAHA conspiracy theorists rejoice: Utah has become the first state to ban fluoride from public drinking water.Republican Governor Spencer Cox signed a bill late Thursday that will prevent local cities from choosing to add the mineral to their water.The order—which ...

Utah Gov. Spencer Cox signed a bill Thursday banning fluoride in public water systems, making his state the first in the nation to do so. The legislation appears to be the product of health misinformation and a decline in trust ...

The Louisiana Legislature could make good on one of Dr. Strangelove’s most famous examples of the paranoid conspiracy theories bred by conservative Red Scare and Cold War propaganda if a trio of state senators have their way this year.Sens. Mike ...

Camas Public Works Director Steve Wall said: “It is a community choice and always has been. We’re not required to add fluoride in our water system, but, if we do, we have requirements from the Department of Health and EPA ...

The process of artificially fluoridating municipal water has been a long-standing public health practice in many communities across the U.S. and has been supported and recommended by the federal government for decades. Even so, ever since the first U.S. community ...

Fluoride has been used in drinking water for decades to help prevent cavities, but this common practice is now under attack. The movement has gained momentum in Florida and has the support of the nation's health secretary, Robert F. Kennedy ...

For decades, fluoride has been a hot topic for conspiracy theorists, with claims linking it to mind control, neurological damage, and long-term health risks.While health officials have long dismissed such concerns, arguing that fluoridated water is an essential public health ...