Florida Town Votes to Remove Fluoride from Water, Citing Trump's Appointment of RFK Jr as 'H-Something-Something Directo

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19. "FAR ABOVE" is the important part of that statement. It has LONG been known that a little bit of fluoride is good, ...

... but a lot is not better -- as is true of so many things. Vitamins are essential for good health, but some, such as vitamin A, can be toxic if taken in excess. Drinking too much water too quickly can kill you.

INFORMED and INTELLIGENT limits are the answer. Eliminating fluoride completely leads to weaker teeth. Too much fluoride leads to mottled teeth. Living downwind from an aluminum smelter (which releases volatile fluorides into the air) has been known to be extremely unhealthy for cattle, who browse on grass contaminated with fluoride. So the amount of fluoride needs to be carefully monitored and controlled. Fortunately, naturally fluoride in water is rare ( but led to the discovery of its beneficial effects) so overdosing is rare. 0.7 ppm in water is adequate to protect dental health in growing children. Toxic effects begin at much higher doses, which are not difficult at all to avoid.

To people like RFKJ, these facts don't matter. They seem to think that any fluoride content is bad, regardless of the evidence accumulated in dozens, if not hundreds, of studies. It's truly knee-jerk rejection as soon as they hear the word 'fluoride'. This same pattern underlies much of right-wing "thinking", which is why all you have to do is slap a label they've been brainwashed to find objectionable onto something/someone, and they immediately hate it, without knowing anything more about it.

Either you understand the words INFORMED and INTELLIGENT, or you don't. MAGAts make it clear they have no remotely accurate conception of either.