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The belief that fluoridated water is dangerous
Seventy-five years ago, on Jan. 25, 1945, public health officials began an experiment in Grand Rapids, Mich., to prevent the pain, misery, and cost of tooth decay: adjusting the level of fluoride in drinking water. Cavity rates plunged with fluoridation. Today,
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While pseudoscience and quackery have been around a long time, the 2010s were truly the decade of bunk. The reach and influence of misinformation has intensified to the point that it feels near impossible to find the truth in the
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A cabal of doctors is hiding the cure for cancer, berries are more effective than vaccines, and eating instant noodles can kill you: These are some of the claims from the internet’s most viral fake health news in 2019. Health
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Northwestern University synthetic biologists developed a simple, inexpensive new test that can detect dangerous levels of fluoride in drinking water. Costing just pennies to make, the system only needs a drip and a flick: Drip a tiny water droplet into
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Sean Gallup / Getty Images Conspiracy theorists have railed for seven decades against fluoride, suggesting that water fluoridation was a government mind-control trick or communist plot. Now, an August study published by a well-regarded medical journal, JAMA Pediatrics, has reignited
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Over the past 70-some years, few substances have been more studied than fluoride, and the conclusion is always the same: Fluoridation is safe, and prevents cavities.ALASTAIR PIKE André Picard is a health reporter and columnist for The Globe and Mail.
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Because Americans have a conspiracy theory about everything, of course there’s a conspiracy involving drinking water. Didn’t you know that fluoride, which is added to our drinking water to keep our teeth healthy (and is considered one of the greatest
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A new study links fluoride consumption during pregnancy to lower IQ in children, but experts are saying it’s not time to rush out and filter your H2O just yet. Key points: Study hints at an association between fluoride exposure in
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