Baseless fears about fluoride are going mainstream
Today’s health news includes the science behind RFK Jr.’s fluoride controversy, health differences between beer and wine drinkers, and more.
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Fact-checking Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s claims about fluoride
Research has shown that drinking fluoridated water at the recommended levels in the U.S. is safe and beneficial for oral health, especially in children.
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Talk of removing fluoride from drinking water nationally stirs up debate in Maine
“Drinking fluoridated water keeps teeth strong and reduces cavities by about 25 percent in children and adults,” Maine CDC Director Dr. Puthiery Va said. While this has been done since the 1940s across America, Maine was a late adopter.
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Some Data on Fluoride
David Gorski wrote yesterday about the threat that a second Trump term holds for American health, specifically if he keeps his promise to give RFK Jr. some high level position over public health. Unf
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Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Claims Fluoride Is ‘Lowering IQ’ in Children, Denies Being Anti-Vax | Video
“And I think fluoride will disappear.” Kennedy has previously spread the unfounded conspiracy theory that man-made chemicals in public water were affecting how young people identified sexually and caused “gender confusion.” NBC notes that …
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Fluoride, Vaccines, Obamacare: What to Know About Trump’s Health Statements
Why is there controversy about fluoride now? Fluoride has long generated controversy. In the 1950s conspiracy theorists thought it was a Communist plot to poison Americans’ brains — a notion that the filmmaker Stanley Kubrick ridiculed in his 1964 …
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