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Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced that a Trump administration would prioritize removing fluoride from public water systems, a position at odds with major health organizations like the CDC, the American Dental Association, and the American Academy of Pediatrics, all of which endorse water fluoridation as safe and beneficial for dental health.

Despite Kennedy’s controversial stance on health and environmental issues, which includes previously debunked claims linking vaccines to autism, Trump has praised his passion, stating that Kennedy would have significant freedom to influence health policy if Trump were elected.

  • Tarquinn2049@lemmy.world
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    That paper specifically concludes that despite all that, there is no reason to even look into whether fluoridation in drinking water might be a problem because there has clearly been no corollary deleterious effect. So, knowing what it would look like if it was a problem, was enough to know that it isn’t even close enough to warrant checking how close it is. The highest reported extremes of exposure already didn’t cause issue, so there is certainly no cause for concern at normal levels.

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      The point of it being, that fluoride is, in fact, recognized to be a neurotoxin, so it’s not just people pulling baseless crap out of their asses. There was a time, not long ago, when lead levels in consumer products were believed to be safe.

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        Lead levels in consumer products are now regulated to the point where they’re negligible in terms of the effects on human health, so lead levels in consumer products are safe. We know the toxic level of fluoride; an adult would basically have to eat 2+ full tubes of toothpaste (which has more fluoride than tap water) to die and so your concern is out of proportion to the actual level of risk.

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          22 hours ago

          This is not true. To elaborate on what the other person who replied said… there is no safe level of lead in consumer products because lead accumulates in the body. Also, lots of consumer products still contain lead because there are loopholes. And the regulations any way aren’t that stringent.

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        The paper does not recognize fluoride as a neurotoxin in its current application in Europe:

        Overall, despite the remaining uncertainties, and based on the totality of evidence the present review does not support the presumption that fluoride should be considered as a human developmental neurotoxicant at current exposure levels in European countries.