Dentist lobby keeps winning
Like the people this will affect the most can afford a dentist.
I think it's more a case of “Don't be a surgeon in a county where surgery is illegal because surgery isn't in the Bible” situation.
Well, don't need fluoride if you don't have teeth
Take iodine out of salt while you’re at it.
Let's bring the gioter look back!
Don't worry, y'all, they're probably gonna make lead pipes great again, too!
edit - that way, you can all look and act like wild bill from the green mile! isn't that GREAT?
second?
Who the fuck was the first?
Utah
Ah, coulda guessed it'd be them. Only place I lived where I couldn't find redeeming qualities.
So if they don't use the word "fluoride," does that mean the purpose is that the bill is open to interpretation depending on what they politically need at the time?
Or will the Republicans pass this bill and claim victory, but will actually just leave fluoride in the water?
There is evidence that there is a correlation between fluoride in water and lower IQ in children. It's difficult to show causation, but it's something that should be investigated. Pausing fluoridation while this happens would seem sensible.
I think this is the first time I've ever defended something these arseholes have done. Feels weird.
The mean IQ level was more in the region with medium fluoride concentration in drinking water (56.68) compared to areas with low fluoride concentration (41.03) and high fluoride concentration (31.59).
So according to that study, having "medium levels" (1.2-2ppm) of fluoride is much better. I checked three random water reports in Florida which had 0.5, 0.7 and 0.9 ppm.
Lol I'm sure Florida is so on top of that research
Florida bans fluoride, eh? Florida… man.
How about dazzle points? Sparkleshine?
T-dazzle!
(SOUNDBITE OF FILM, "DR. STRANGELOVE")
STERLING HAYDEN: (As General Jack D. Ripper) Have you ever heard of a thing called fluoridation - fluoridation of water?
PETER SELLERS: (As Group Capt. Lionel Mandrake) Yes, I have heard of that, Jack. Yes.
DALLEK: The Birch Society argued that fluoride in the drinking water was a massive wedge for socialized medicine, which was spoofed in the Stanley Kubrick film, "Dr. Strangelove."
(SOUNDBITE OF FILM, "DR. STRANGELOVE")
HAYDEN: (As General Jack D. Ripper) Do you realize that fluoridation is the most monstrously conceived and dangerous communist plot we have ever had to face?
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