An entire era of conspiracy theories are quickly becoming conspiracy fact. The Associated Press reported, “DeSantis signs a bill making Florida the 2nd state to ban fluoride from its water system.” It’s done! And the Florida ban takes effect in July, just over a month from now. I expect my horrible county to fight it, but the lawsuit practically writes itself.
Fluoride pushback is sweeping the country. According to an NPR story, five more states have pending anti-fluoride bills: Kentucky, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Nebraska, and South Carolina. More anti-fluoride bills either failed or stalled in committee in North Dakota, Arkansas, Tennessee, Montana and New Hampshire. Other states like Hawaii, New Jersey, and Oregon already have fluoridation rates languishing in the low double digits.
Low-fluoride states like Hawaii don’t have epidemics of cavities, a fact the fake news media never mentions.
Not to be outdone, the federal government is also moving against the stupefying chemical, which, as Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. has noted, is a by-product of industrial hazardous waste. The FDA announced a ban on all “ingestible fluoride products” —tablets, lozenges, and drops— for children. Dentists prescribe these products to parents who live in fluoride-free areas. The New York Times ran the story this week under the misleading headline, “The F.D.A. Says Fluoride Pills May Harm Children’s Health. Researchers Disagree.”
Haha, researchers disagree. Good one.
The Times “forgot” about a peer-reviewed JAMA study released this year. The Gray Lady even ran a story about it in January, headlined “Study Links High Fluoride Exposure to Lower I.Q. in Children.” That January story also correctly reported that a federal court found fluoride was potentially dangerous: “Last September, U.S. District Judge Edward Chen in San Francisco ordered the Environmental Protection Agency to strengthen regulations for fluoride in drinking water because of research suggesting that high levels might pose a risk to the intellectual development of children.”
But the Times’ fluoride article this week conveniently omitted its own January article. It mentioned neither Judge Chen’s verdict, nor the gold-standard JAMA study it had just reported only three months earlier. I concede that Times reporters are competing with President Autopen for lowest IQ scores —maybe the result of too much childhood fluoridation— but seriously. It literally only took me five seconds of googling, and I don’t even work there.
Perhaps a better question is: why is corporate media covering for big fluoride?
