Rutland resident Jack Crowther has been a longtime critic.
“You’re putting a drug, a medicine, in our water to treat tooth decay without the informed consent of the people,” Crowther said.
“Mandrake, have you ever seen a commie drink a glass of water?”
“THEY’RE PUTTING MEDICINE IN THE WATER!”
Also related, a Richmond, VT waterworks employee secretly lowered fluoride levels in the town’s drinking supply for a decade.
EDIT: I should’ve updated this a month ago, but the town voted to keep fluoride.
Unlimited actual literal genocide, ie line up every fucking one of them who has ever existed and every fucking one of them, to the John Birch Society.
Fluoride? Cute. We were talking about that in the 90’s. REAL conspiracy heads know they’re putting MICROCHIPS in the water, nanometer size so you slurp them right up. The only water that’s safe is water that’s been sitting for at least a good week or two, you want it brown with the little squirmy things swimming in it, drink that raw water white man.
My friend drank milk and got a parasite that only 5 people get annually in the US
Water fluoridation is fucking stupid. Fluoride can cure cancer and make you immortal for all I care it’s still stupid to put it in all the tap water. Of all the tap water you use how much do you actually drink vs washing things? And you know what’s a way more efficient of getting it on your teeth other than drinking water? Toothpaste, which already fucking has fluoride in it.
Hmm, we have substance that’s good for your teeth. Do we put it in the toothpaste or do we spend millions dumping it in all the fucking water?
Damn if only there were any research pointing out water fluoridation as one of the most cost-effective public health programs in the history of humanity.
Fluoride is cheap as shit.
If it’s cheap as shit give everyone a packet of fluoride to smear on their teeth. Also I don’t care about whatever “line goes up” justification there is, it’s just still a roundabout and wasteful delivery method to put it in the tap water. There’s no way to control dosage and it’s wasteful. Also municipalities fuck up the quantity of fluoridation pretty regularly.
Besides the practical concerns water fluoridation would never pass an ethical review if it were proposed today. People should be able to consent to what medicine they’re taking. It’s banned in almost every country other than the US for a reason.
Also dentists aren’t real doctors. They don’t go through med school and most of the research they publish isn’t nearly as rigorous as regular medical research. Same fuckers came up with the bright idea to put mercury in tooth implants.
That creates hundreds of millions of waste packets every year surely.
It might be wasteful, but it’s probably not more wasteful than packaging and shipping all these packets.
It’s banned in almost every country other than the US for a reason.
I can’t find anything to suggest this is true.
Mercury isn’t used any more in fillings but you do know that alloying a metal changes its properties, right? Like, sodium and chlorine will fuck you up real bad but your body will die unless you imbibe salt.
Also, do you get this mad over iodine in salt? It’s all the same shit, cheap and efficient solutions for vast and expensive problems.
There’s no way to control dosage
too bad we don’t know how much water people drink & can’t calibrate relative to that. one of life’s great mysteries
it’s wasteful
great point, we don’t know when people are using water in a way that necessitates chlorination, we should just send everyone untreated water & they can treat it at their discretion when it’s really necessary. stop the waste!
If it’s cheap as shit give everyone a packet of fluoride to smear on their teeth.
Besides the practical concerns water fluoridation would never pass an ethical review if it were proposed today. People should be able to consent to what medicine they’re taking. It’s banned in almost every country other than the US for a reason.
It’s widely practiced in other countries like the UK, all across South America, Malaysia, ROK, Ireland, Spain, China, Singapore; the rest of what you’re saying is comically wrong but this part is incredibly easy to demonstrate how wrong you are.
Please tell me how to get everyone an individual packet of fluoride to put on their teeth. Are their fluoride depots spread all throughout this great land? How will the homeless access these packets? How about all of the waste from these dingle serve packets? Also it’s not medicine, it’s a mineral that is already part of your teeth and re-minerlizarion is necessary to maintain enamel and stuff. To say fluoride is medicine means that literally all nutrients count as medicine, so should the government stop putting water in the tap water? Cause guess the fuck what water is? Lava. Geologically speaking ice is a rock. So fundamentally there is no difference at all between the two. So running water in general is the government forcing medicine into you apparently.
Not to mention it really pisses off the conspiracy crowd. “To own the chuds” will always be my first concern in decisionmaking and it has a track record there.
I only recently watched Dr. Strangelove for the first time a couple of years ago and I laughed my ass off when he started ranting about how Commies don’t drink water as I sat there drinking whisky. Such a great movie.
Love water though.
They should put meth in the drinking water.
