A federal judge has ordered the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to further regulate fluoride in drinking water because high levels could pose a risk to the intellectual development of children.
This is why advocates were scared of this report. Because people would read the executive summary and not the full thing. You need an INSANE amount of fluoride for the effects described.
But yes, if you are in an area where there is like 100x the ADA recommended dose of fluoride in your water, your kid may lose a couple IQ points. Nothing like lead, mind you, but a couple
Edit: let’s talk about healthy things. Coffee increases your productivity. What happens if you drink 100 cups at once? Yeah, excessive things are bad
I haven’t read much more than the title and your comment, but it sounds like that judge should be force fed 50kg of broccoli.
If he says the safe-phrase “I am a stupid little bitch boy with a dumb brain and I retract my judgment.”, he can stop eating broccoli.
Edit: Nvm, I’m the dumb bitch. I misread, this wasn’t about banning adding fluoride to the drinking water.
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Not really. You are just viewing from the wrong perspective. From study perspective, you are right, but the article is talking about legal aspect. Ever since the Supreme Court overturned Chevrons doctrine, courts now decide not experts what and how regulators can create and enforce rules. So EPA was ordered to do so after the study came by the judge.
Fluoridation, you say?
PEACE ON EARTH! PURITY OF ESSENCE!
My goddamn rain water and grain alcohol! I have to protect the purity of my bodily fluids!
I looked into whether or not my city was adding fluoride, since I have garbage mouth-genes. I learned that they aren’t (big Canadian city), and If a utility is adding fluoride it may be in different quantities than a neighbouring municipality. The concentrations can vary quite a bit and too much isn’t a good thing.
That I think that list is just Montreal, Vancouver, and Calgary, as our other 5 large cities use fluoride.
Calgary has reversed that decision, but hasn’t added flouride back to the water yet. It’s expected in Q1 2025.
Fluoride stares in disbelief
