Why RFK Jr. has relaunched his fluoride crusade
By Zeynep Tufekci / The New York Times
I remember when railing against the supposed evils of fluoride in drinking water was the work of a few voices clustered on the fringes of political discourse.
The map shifted after Robert F. Kennedy Jr. took office as the secretary of health and human services. Last week he announced that as part of his plan to “make America healthy again,” he would call for an end to fluoridation. Utah has already banned it. Florida is now proposing to do so, and other states seem poised to follow.
If these bills pass, what will occur is no mystery. More children’s teeth will rot, which will cause pain, social stigma, impaired development and lifelong health problems, and raise the costs of their medical care. The worst effects will fall on disadvantaged children, the kids who don’t have access to frequent dentist visits and special treatments like varnishes to make up for the loss. Adults with bad oral health also suffer more from cardiovascular complications and even Alzheimer’s. At their worst, tooth decay and resulting infections can be deadly. The effects of all this will emerge slowly but surely, over many years, and persist long after this administration.
We know this because it has already happened in the other places that stopped fluoridating their water: Calgary, Canada; Juneau, Alaska; the entire country of Israel. In all these cases, children’s teeth got worse, more so over time. They had to undergo more dental procedures, a greater number of which required general anesthesia, an indicator of severe problems and a risk factor itself. The costs went up.
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Why? Because a worm ate his brain.
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