Donald Trump said Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s proposal to remove fluoride from the U.S. water systems "sounds okay" to him, raising alarms for public health.
  • Former President Donald Trump said that Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s proposal to remove fluoride from the U.S. water systems “sounds okay” to him.
  • Kennedy, who is poised to play a health policy role in a potential Trump administration, recently wrote, “The Trump White House will advise all U.S​. water systems to remove fluoride from public water.”
  • According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, “the safety and benefits of fluoride are well documented and have been reviewed comprehensively by several scientific and public health organizations.”
  • @fine_sandy_bottom
    17•19 days ago

    The reason why you’re being downvoted is because you’ve provided some outlandish claims without any source.

    I honestly remember my parent’s talking about these exact things in the 80s. It’s absurd to claim that in the interceding decades no reputable science has supported these claims.

    Science is sometimes wrong, and from time to time we have to improve our understanding of things, but great claims require great evidence.

      • @fine_sandy_bottom
        8•19 days ago

        I’m not suggesting that you care about down votes, but you seem to think the down votes imply people are angry or have “lost their minds” whatever that means.

          • @fine_sandy_bottom
            7•19 days ago

            … but I found a blog post saying the earth is flat, and it had very thorough citations.

            Bold claims require irrefutable evidence.

            The weight of evidence in support of fluoridation is overwhelming. It’s the greatest public health intervention in the history of human kind.

            If you want to say it makes people docile then you need large double blinded peer reviewed longitudinal studies supporting that claim. If you don’t have that then you’re going to get downvotes because you’re just parroting nonsense.

      • @orgrinrt@lemmy.world
        5•19 days ago

        Well, you actually begin with a good example of another outlandish claim. They are right? I don’t suppose you can back that up? If not, that’s just an unbacked claim. Outlandish, of course, is subjective, but I’d say it sure is just that.

        The one you claim is outlandish, is, indeed, outlandish. I agree with your point that this is what the ruling class would do, if we remove this thought experiment from any context and real-life bounds. They 100% would. If they knew they’d get away with it.

        I don’t believe they would, in reality, though, get away with it.

        So while that point is logical in a detached sense, it still is as outlandish as everything else.

        Edit: What’s up with this .ee instance by the way? Has anyone else noticed that a lot of commenters and comments like this happen to be from there? Contrarians, completely weird takes, oddly common “I’m a leftist, BUT…” comments, and a lot of third party voters and enthusiasts. I’ve noted it earlier but this finally made it hit. Does anyone know some context that they’d have time and energy to share?