keccers
@keccers.eth
This is probably the single best thing I've read on the fluoride debate https://undark.org/2024/03/06/fluoride-drinking-water/ Fluoride is absolutely harmful in large doses, but it's unclear that the levels present in the US water supply are as neurotoxic as critics would have you believe. However: "Most of those studies look at fluoride exposures higher than 1.5 mg/L — in other words, more than double the levels founds in most Americans’ drinking water. Bucher stressed that the report is not — and was never intended to be — an evaluation of the safety of adding fluoride to water. “We don’t have enough data to make any statement with any certainty about it at the lower levels,” he said. (1/2, continued in reply)
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Daniel Sinclair
@danielsinclair
Spoke with a public health investigator once that was investigating a case of teeth malformation in children due to huge concentrations of naturally occurring fluoride in their well water. Environmental mineral exposure like that (and heavy metals and chemicals) are so much spookier than the tiny public health measures
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keccers
@keccers.eth
I think this ancedote also well illustrates the point that fluoride is naturally occurring in water and so it's fairly reasonable to have it be a task of the gov to titrate that up or down. lol
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