If you want to tilt against the public health establishment, there are ways to raise things. For example all the data to argue against water fluoridation (versus toothpaste fluoridation) is already there, but if you confront the establishment with that, they will identify you as an invader and deploy their immune system.
Instead, make a more passive, less confrontational doc that can withstand scrutiny (IE, have links to well-established mainstream results, use reasoning and logic, etc) and let the establishment slowly come to terms with it.
I find it interesting that Michael Bloomberg penned an oped this morning in which he warns against RFK JR's potential influence in govt, using RFK's stance against fluoride in our water as one of his attack points.
Yet here we have WAPO - another bastion of liberal thought media - taking what virtually amounts to an opposing stance to Bloomberg while providing tacit support for RFK.
looks like the billionaire media moguls aren't quite on the same page. They might want to check their jersey color to see if they are still on the same team.
The opinion article was written by a contributing columnist and is not necessarily the opinion of the newspaper.
Not all liberals are opposed to fluoride; it's one of those things where the public health establishment has an immune response to people who want to get rid of it, even though there seems to be plenty of data suggesting that water fluoridation does have some risks (mostly cosmetic) and is probably not as healthy/necessary as the establishment says.
Many societies that have extremely low sugar consumption have fairly healthy teeth. Also, in many countries people brush with fluoridated toothpaste. Either of those might explain your ex's teeth.
Fluoride in tap water was basically a large-scale public health solution for populations that didn't have alternatives. we have enough data to show fairly convincingly that as a health intervention it's not particularly effective compared to alternatives, and can contribute to the risk of fluorosis.
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Fauci has stated that RFK's book is full of lies. If that was true, then why has Fauci not sued RFK for libel?
"Methinks he doth protest too much"
Instead, make a more passive, less confrontational doc that can withstand scrutiny (IE, have links to well-established mainstream results, use reasoning and logic, etc) and let the establishment slowly come to terms with it.
Yet here we have WAPO - another bastion of liberal thought media - taking what virtually amounts to an opposing stance to Bloomberg while providing tacit support for RFK.
looks like the billionaire media moguls aren't quite on the same page. They might want to check their jersey color to see if they are still on the same team.
Not all liberals are opposed to fluoride; it's one of those things where the public health establishment has an immune response to people who want to get rid of it, even though there seems to be plenty of data suggesting that water fluoridation does have some risks (mostly cosmetic) and is probably not as healthy/necessary as the establishment says.
She says that there has been no flouride in any tap water in the Netherlands since she was a teenager in the early 70's. she has perfect teeth.
Fluoride in tap water was basically a large-scale public health solution for populations that didn't have alternatives. we have enough data to show fairly convincingly that as a health intervention it's not particularly effective compared to alternatives, and can contribute to the risk of fluorosis.