• regul [any]@hexbear.net
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    7 months ago

    Damn if only there were any research pointing out water fluoridation as one of the most cost-effective public health programs in the history of humanity.

    Fluoride is cheap as shit.

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      7 months ago

      If it’s cheap as shit give everyone a packet of fluoride to smear on their teeth. Also I don’t care about whatever “line goes up” justification there is, it’s just still a roundabout and wasteful delivery method to put it in the tap water. There’s no way to control dosage and it’s wasteful. Also municipalities fuck up the quantity of fluoridation pretty regularly.

      Besides the practical concerns water fluoridation would never pass an ethical review if it were proposed today. People should be able to consent to what medicine they’re taking. It’s banned in almost every country other than the US for a reason.

      Also dentists aren’t real doctors. They don’t go through med school and most of the research they publish isn’t nearly as rigorous as regular medical research. Same fuckers came up with the bright idea to put mercury in tooth implants.

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        7 months ago

        If it’s cheap as shit give everyone a packet of fluoride to smear on their teeth.

        jesse-wtf

        Besides the practical concerns water fluoridation would never pass an ethical review if it were proposed today. People should be able to consent to what medicine they’re taking. It’s banned in almost every country other than the US for a reason.

        jesse-wtf

        It’s widely practiced in other countries like the UK, all across South America, Malaysia, ROK, Ireland, Spain, China, Singapore; the rest of what you’re saying is comically wrong but this part is incredibly easy to demonstrate how wrong you are.

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          7 months ago

          Water flouridation isn’t done in China. In certain regions the fluoride level is naturally high and there is a problem with fluoridosis in those regions. In like the 70s they did flouridation and then stopped once they realized it made fluoridosis rates go up slightly.

          A lot of the countries you’re talking about don’t artificially fluoridate their water, they just have naturally high(ish) fluoride levels and get listed as “fluoridated water” in whatever source you’re using.

          UK

          I guess water fluoridation does fuck all for your teeth then lmao. /s

          Wtf is someone with fluorosis gonna do? Drink only distilled water until it goes away?