By Free Republic | Created at 2024-11-17 18:50:26 | Updated at 2024-11-17 20:48:14
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The Anti-Fluoride Movement Vaults Into the Mainstream With the nomination of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as health secretary, a formerly fringe opinion suddenly gets wide attention.
NY Times ^ | 2024/11/15 | By Joseph Goldstein
Posted on 11/17/2024 10:48:18 AM PST by dennisw
A shift in the debate over fluoride. It occurred as trust in the nation’s public health system eroded during the Covid-19 pandemic. Reflects growing public concern over the toxins and substances that accumulate in our body, like microplastics and the “forever chemicals” known as PFAS.
For much of that time, the town of Yorktown, in Westchester County, drank unfluoridated water. By the time the new fluoridation system was up and running in August 2024, the town supervisor, Ed Lachterman, had detected a shift in public opinion.
He had grown accustomed to hearing from people who insisted that Yorktown’s water remain fluoridated. “It was, ‘fluoride, fluoride, fluoride,’” he recalled. But in the intervening years, his constituents seemed far more wary, voicing concerns about fluoridated water’s effect on the brain or framing it as an issue of autonomy — “my body, my choice,” he recalled.
A month after resuming fluoridation, Mr. Lachterman reversed course, suspending it in September. He cited an unexpected development: A federal judge in San Francisco had just concluded that fluoride, long known to be toxic at high levels, “poses an unreasonable risk of reduced I.Q. in children” even in amounts close to what is typically added to the nation’s drinking water. The judge ordered the Environmental Protection Agency to do something about it.
His ruling followed a report released in August by the National Toxicology Program, part of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, that concluded “with moderate confidence” that higher fluoride exposures “are consistently associated with lower I.Q. in children.”
The judicial ruling was a surprising development in the nation’s running debate over the virtues and perils of adding fluoride to our water supply, a controversy that over 80 years has veered across a lot of territory — from public health to conspiracy theories.
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1 posted on 11/17/2024 10:48:18 AM PST by dennisw
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Fluoride in Water Poses “Unreasonable Risk” to Children, Federal Judge Rules
The “conspiracy theorists” were right again.
Judge Edward Chen has ruled that the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) MUST take action on water fluoridation.
He found that fluoride poses an “unreasonable risk” of reducing IQ in children, especially for pregnant women and young kids, at the current levels.
He dismissed the EPA’s argument that it’s unclear exactly how much fluoride is dangerous and instead pointed to scientific evidence showing that even the so-called “optimal” level for dental health (0.7 mg/L) could be harmful.
This decision could potentially lead to the end of water fluoridation in the U.S. and is a significant blow to the EPA, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and groups like the American Dental Association (ADA), who have long defended the practice.
This is a huge win and another step forward to Make America Healthy Again (MAHA).
2 posted on 11/17/2024 10:49:40 AM PST by dennisw
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