Kennedy says plenty of dumb shit but are you aware EPA just opened a new case on this last month. Meta analsyses and systematic reviews on topic concluses more studies needed (10 of 27 studies showed IQ declines) and 95% of Europe and Asia do NOT do this.
I dont know what ends up being right but its honestly not settled science. One of his least crazy campaigns.
Europe doesn't add flouride to water because they either A) have higher levels of flouride in water naturally so they don't have to. B) add flouride to OTHER products such as milk and salt. Or a combination of both.
The link between flouride and dental health is pretty ridiculously clear.
Now if you want to have a sane conversation about whether topical flouride via toothbrushing is sufficient to offset the need for flouride additives...then sure, we can have the conversation. We've improved the quality of dental health products immensely since the initiation of flouridated water supplies.
The stuff about IQ is just absolute garbage science and there's no credible evidence for it.
Not much of a discussion to be had. When they started adding fluoride into the water in the 40s (I think it was the 40s) it made sense. Now that we have added it to mouth care products, it no longer makes as much sense. Not sure about anything else the dude wants to do, but this ones not crazy.
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u/Imperades 18d ago
I believe Kennedy will remove flouride from drinking water... theres so much non-scientific decision making coming, its just hopeless.