#fluoridation — Public Fediverse posts
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USDA recommends sodium fluoride for killing cockroaches, because it acts as both a stomach poison and contact poison. That was in 1931. Today, people put it in their mouths while brushing their teeth and drink it in their water.
#Fluoride #SodiumFluoride #fluoridation #toothpaste #water #health #pesticide #roaches #roaches #cockroach #stomach #USDA
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Got LICE in your teeth? How about COCKROACHES? If so, you may want to apply some sodium fluoride to your teeth!
Sodium fluoride kills these little creatures. That means it is a poison, right?
A previous generation, in 1917, knew it and stated so publicly in newspapers. What would they think if they saw people today adding insecticide to their water and toothpaste?
source:
Dakota County Herald Jun-21-1917#SodiumFluoride #toothpaste #health #nutrition #fluoridation #water
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Got LICE in your teeth? How about COCKROACHES? If so, you may want to apply some sodium fluoride to your teeth!
Sodium fluoride kills these little creatures. That means it is a poison, right?
A previous generation, in 1917, knew it and stated so publicly in newspapers. What would they think if they saw people today adding insecticide to their water and toothpaste?
source:
Dakota County Herald Jun-21-1917#SodiumFluoride #toothpaste #health #nutrition #fluoridation #water
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Got LICE in your teeth? How about COCKROACHES? If so, you may want to apply some sodium fluoride to your teeth!
Sodium fluoride kills these little creatures. That means it is a poison, right?
A previous generation, in 1917, knew it and stated so publicly in newspapers. What would they think if they saw people today adding insecticide to their water and toothpaste?
source:
Dakota County Herald Jun-21-1917#SodiumFluoride #toothpaste #health #nutrition #fluoridation #water
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Got LICE in your teeth? How about COCKROACHES? If so, you may want to apply some sodium fluoride to your teeth!
Sodium fluoride kills these little creatures. That means it is a poison, right?
A previous generation, in 1917, knew it and stated so publicly in newspapers. What would they think if they saw people today adding insecticide to their water and toothpaste?
source:
Dakota County Herald Jun-21-1917#SodiumFluoride #toothpaste #health #nutrition #fluoridation #water
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#Influencer #GaryBrecka spreads #misinformation about #water #fluoridation in #Instagram post
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1 in 3 #Florida third graders have untreated #cavities – how parents can protect their #children’s #teeth
That’s almost double the national average of 17% of children ages 6-9 with untreated #tooth decay and underscores severity of the issue in Florida.
Historically, community #water #fluoridation has been one of the most effective public health strategies to reduce children’s #toothdecay. However, a new Florida law, prohibits adding #fluoride to public #drinkingwater.
https://theconversation.com/1-in-3-florida-third-graders-have-untreated-cavities-how-parents-can-protect-their-childrens-teeth-257200 -
1 in 3 #Florida third graders have untreated #cavities – how parents can protect their #children’s #teeth
That’s almost double the national average of 17% of children ages 6-9 with untreated #tooth decay and underscores severity of the issue in Florida.
Historically, community #water #fluoridation has been one of the most effective public health strategies to reduce children’s #toothdecay. However, a new Florida law, prohibits adding #fluoride to public #drinkingwater.
https://theconversation.com/1-in-3-florida-third-graders-have-untreated-cavities-how-parents-can-protect-their-childrens-teeth-257200 -
1 in 3 #Florida third graders have untreated #cavities – how parents can protect their #children’s #teeth
That’s almost double the national average of 17% of children ages 6-9 with untreated #tooth decay and underscores severity of the issue in Florida.
Historically, community #water #fluoridation has been one of the most effective public health strategies to reduce children’s #toothdecay. However, a new Florida law, prohibits adding #fluoride to public #drinkingwater.
https://theconversation.com/1-in-3-florida-third-graders-have-untreated-cavities-how-parents-can-protect-their-childrens-teeth-257200 -
1 in 3 #Florida third graders have untreated #cavities – how parents can protect their #children’s #teeth
That’s almost double the national average of 17% of children ages 6-9 with untreated #tooth decay and underscores severity of the issue in Florida.
Historically, community #water #fluoridation has been one of the most effective public health strategies to reduce children’s #toothdecay. However, a new Florida law, prohibits adding #fluoride to public #drinkingwater.
https://theconversation.com/1-in-3-florida-third-graders-have-untreated-cavities-how-parents-can-protect-their-childrens-teeth-257200 -
1 in 3 #Florida third graders have untreated #cavities – how parents can protect their #children’s #teeth
That’s almost double the national average of 17% of children ages 6-9 with untreated #tooth decay and underscores severity of the issue in Florida.
Historically, community #water #fluoridation has been one of the most effective public health strategies to reduce children’s #toothdecay. However, a new Florida law, prohibits adding #fluoride to public #drinkingwater.
https://theconversation.com/1-in-3-florida-third-graders-have-untreated-cavities-how-parents-can-protect-their-childrens-teeth-257200 -
«#Fluoride in the #Water—Good or Bad?
«In April, [RFK] Jr ordered the CDC to stop recommending #fluoridation of the public water supply, #contrary to the #recommendation of the American #Dental Association and most #public #health experts.
«Why the #controversy? Is fluoridation a #Communist #plot to weaken our society as General #JackDRipper thundered in Dr. #Strangelove?»
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Behold, the home water fluoridation system that RFK Jr grew up with:
https://toilet-guru.com/robert-f-kennedy.html
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Sewage-swimmer loves microbes not too little but too well.
https://arstechnica.com/health/2025/05/rfk-jr-wants-to-ban-fluoride-supplements-based-on-nonsense/
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Why is #fluoride in #water so controversial? The #science of #fluoridation, explained.
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#Trump appointee to Secretary of #Health and #Human Services, #RFKjr urges #CDC to cease #PublicHealth recommendation of water #fluoridation because he read some pseudo-#science claiming it causes IQ loss.
Meanwhile, the worm 🪱 eating his brain 🧠 is like… #USpol #Resist #DoNotComply
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My city was featured on Jimmy Kimmel Live last night. #fluoridation #yyc #yycc #ableg #abpoli #fluoride
It was about fluoridation, and Dr. James Dickinson was quoted. I helped him and a whole host of Calgarians in 2021 to bring back water fluoridation to my home town. It's good to see its return this year... but I'm scared for the health of those Americans ending their decades of positive, sensible public health policy.
There's going to be a lot of harm done.
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Posting this here because it appears to have been removed from the #CDC website?!?! Support #PublicHealth !!
Don’t believe #RFK & #Trump #Lies !!
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MMWR April 2, 1999 (edited for clarity)
These achievements are astounding and should be celebrated! 👏👍💕Ten Great Public Health Achievements — 1900-1999
#Vaccination resulting in the eradication of smallpox; elimination of poliomyelitis in the Americas; and control of measles, rubella, tetanus, diphtheria, Haemophilus influenzae Type B, and other infectious diseases in the United States and other parts of the world.
Control of Infectious Diseases resulting from #cleanwater and improved sanitation. Infections such as typhoid and cholera, a major cause of #illness and #death early in the 20th century, have been reduced dramatically. In addition, the discovery of antimicrobial therapy has been critical to successful public health efforts to control infections such as tuberculosis and sexually transmitted diseases.
Safer and Healthier #Foods have resulted from decreases in microbial contamination and increases in nutritional content. Identifying essential micronutrients and establishing food-fortification programs have almost eliminated major nutritional deficiency diseases such as rickets, goiter, and pellagra in the United States.
Healthier #Mothers and #Babies have resulted from better hygiene and #nutrition, availability of antibiotics, greater access to health care, and technologic advances in maternal and neonatal medicine. Since 1900, infant mortality has decreased 90%, and maternal mortality has decreased 99%.
#FamilyPlanning has provided health benefits such as smaller family size and longer interval between the birth of children; increased opportunities for preconceptional counseling and screening; fewer infant, child, and maternal deaths; and the use of barrier contraceptives to prevent pregnancy and transmission of human immunodeficiency virus and other STDs.
Control of Risk Factors for #HeartDisease and #Stroke such as #smoking and high blood pressure. Since 1972, death rates for coronary heart disease have decreased 51%.
Recognition of #Tobacco Use as a Health Hazard; since the 1964 Surgeon General's report on the health risks of smoking, the prevalence of smoking among adults has decreased, and millions of smoking-related deaths have been prevented.
Motor-Vehicle Safety improvements have resulted from engineering efforts to make both #vehicles and #highways safer and from successful efforts to change personal behavior (e.g., increased use of safety belts, child safety seats, and motorcycle helmets and decreased drinking and driving).
Safer #Workplaces work-related health problems, such as coal workers' pneumoconiosis (black lung), and silicosis (common at the beginning of the century) have come under better control. Severe injuries and deaths related to mining, manufacturing, construction, and transportation have also decreased. Since 1980, safer workplaces have resulted in a reduction of approximately 40% in the rate of fatal occupational injuries.
#Fluoridation of Drinking Water began in 1945 and in 1999 reaches an estimated 144 million persons in the United States. It safely and inexpensively benefits both children and adults by effectively preventing tooth decay, regardless of socioeconomic status or access to care.
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For every dollar spent on #fluoridation, communities save about $20 in dental treatment costs. These savings come from fewer fillings, extractions and emergency visits.
It provides a baseline of #publichealth protection for the entire community https://theconversation.com/water-fluoridation-helps-prevent-tooth-decay-how-growing-opposition-threatens-a-70-year-old-health-practice-230504
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Water #fluoridation helps prevent tooth decay – how growing opposition threatens a 70-year-old health practice https://theconversation.com/water-fluoridation-helps-prevent-tooth-decay-how-growing-opposition-threatens-a-70-year-old-health-practice-230504
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nope
https://adanews.ada.org/ada-news/2021/august/community-water-fluoridation-prevents-caries/
#calgary abandoned #fluoridated water, #edmonton kept it
the perfect real world experiment to show #fluoridation works:
"The prevalence of #caries in the primary #dentition of children was significantly higher in Calgary, #Canada, without fluoridated water, than in Edmonton, where the water is still fluoridated, according to a study published by the journal Community #Dentistry and Oral #Epidemiology"
calgary plans to reintroduce #fluoride
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Sharing this #Fluoride blog post again, as it's more topical with the crisis taking place in Montreal.
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@cbcnews @health-cbcnews
The widespread proposal to stop fluoridating water will primarily affect poor people who cannot afford adequate dental care, and consequently benefit the most from fluoridation. Wealthier people will save a couple of bucks a year to make people miserable. -
Time to brush up (LOL) on fluoride in our drinking water
https://bsky.app/profile/birdlady.bsky.social/post/3lbd6pamvxm2y#fluoridation #public health
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Molly Burke: This California city is fluoride-free. Dentists there worry about the trend spreading
"Dr. Dagon Jones, a dentist with Davis Dental Practice, said that while Davis doesn’t see particularly stark effects on oral health due to the lack of fluoride, many other places could if widespread #fluoridation is stopped.
'Community fluoridation primarily helps lower-socioeconomic-income children who really aren’t getting the best preventive care,' Jones said.
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Jones expects that if community fluoridation is stopped nationally, however, the broad oral health effects would be very expensive for government insurance programs like Medi-Cal, which offers dental coverage for eligible Californians."
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nevermind that huge pile of Samoan children that died of measles after RFK Jr. convinced their parents not to get them vaccinated. also please ignore the fact that he thinks AIDS is a government plot that has nothing to do with HIV. and nevermind that he's promised that the first evils he will combat are water #fluoridation and #chemtrails.
and finally, whatever you do, definitely don't look into what the man has to say about covid-19 and the jews.
#Samoa #Samoan #RFKJr #Vaccine #antivax #Uspol #RFK #Measles #Vaccination #uspolitics #Trump #DonaldTrump #JDVance #Covid #HIV #AIDS #Coronavirus #antivaxers
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Reposting for my #BlueSky friends:
In 2021 my hometown voted to return fluoridation to our city, nearly a decade after removing it.
Read what I wrote about it then: and please don't share in a lost decade without fluoridation. You can avoid this with your advocacy.
https://www.vincentstpierre.com/fluoride/ #uspoli #Fluoridation #RFKjr
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In 2021 my hometown voted to return fluoridation to our city, nearly a decade after removing it.
It was returned by a vote of its citizenry.
During that election, I volunteered, donated and was eventually recruited to staff the plebiscite to support a wonderful group of community minded folks.
Read what I wrote about it then: and please don't share in a lost decade without fluoridation. You can avoid this with your advocacy.
https://www.vincentstpierre.com/fluoride/ #uspoli #Fluoridation #RFKjr
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♦️Edgar Uihlein Jr.’s second child, #Dick, born in 1945, grew up in the wealthy Chicago suburb of Lake Bluff and got the same sort of blue-blood education
(Phillips Andover, Stanford)
as his father (Hotchkiss, Princeton).Amid the social upheavals of the ’60s, #Dick #Uihlein didn’t waver:
He married Liz before graduating from college in 1967,
joined the family business and immersed himself in conservative politics.He worked on the 1969 Illinois congressional campaign of Phil Crane, who won a crowded Republican primary in an upset on a hardline anti-tax and anti-communist platform.
In one of the only interviews he’s ever given, Dick Uihlein told National Review in 2018 that he got his politics from his father,
who often went by Ed.At the family breakfast table growing up, Uihlein recalled,
“My father would talk about the importance of capitalism and the evils of socialism.”Dick said that same year that
“my father shared many of the same values that I have, conservative values.”Dick and Liz Uihlein continue to revere Edgar Jr., who died in 2005.
Dick Uihlein named the family foundation after his father, and it now sends♦️ tens of millions of dollars to right-wing institutions.
Among the recipients of the Ed Uihlein Family Foundation’s grants are the
♦️ #Federalist #Society and think tanks that have pushed misleading claims about the 2020 election, such as the #Conservative #Partnership #Institute
and the
#Foundation #for #Government #Accountability,
as the Daily Beast reported.Tucked in toward the back of the Uline catalog released this summer,
sent out to millions of homes and businesses,
was a long tribute to the “wise” Edgar Uihlein Jr.“Father Uihlein, the head of the family, had a towering presence, and we respected his values,” wrote Liz Uihlein under a picture of her husband and father-in-law,
recalling “frequent dinners at his house, where business, issues of the day, fishing muskies and, always, politics were discussed.”She ended on a note of nostalgia tinged with bitterness:
“Living your life and raising your kids were easier in an easier time.
There was no legalized marijuana, defund the police or social media.We, like so many families, were raised with a sharp moral compass.
The rules were the rules, but it was OK.”
The Uihleins’ political giving reflects these longings for a bygone era.
Dick Uihlein is a major funder of the #American #Principles #Project,
which runs ads attacking what it calls “#transgender #ideology,” #abortion and the teaching of “#critical #race #theory.”Last year, Uihlein weighed in on ♦️recalling four school board members in a small town north of Milwaukee because of their support for COVID-19 #safety #protocols and “#equity” training for teachers.
More recently, in his home state of Illinois, Uihlein has spent more than♦️ $50 million to back the Republican gubernatorial candidate #Darren #Bailey, who has drawn criticism for saying the #Holocaust “doesn’t even compare” to the toll of abortions and for accusing Democrats of “putting #perversion into our schools” for adopting a sex ed bill that includes information about gender identity and same-sex couples.
The Uihleins were huge beneficiaries of a tax provision promoted by Sen. #Ron #Johnson, R-Wisc., that was included in the Trump tax overhaul and are continuing to support the Wisconsin senator and fund attack ads against his opponent.
For all the Uihleins’ dismay at the disorder they see consuming the country, there is one domain where they can exert near total control.
Former employees of Uline told ProPublica the couple’s traditionalist politics govern the smallest details of how the company is run.
For new staffers, it begins with the #dress #code in the employee handbook:
Women are not permitted to wear pants except as part of a pantsuit or on Fridays;
hose or stockings must be worn except during the warmer months;
dresses “that are too short” and corduroy of any kind are strictly prohibited.The handbook defines “tardy” as one minute past an employee’s scheduled start time.
Just four personal items are allowed on employees’ desks,
with maximum dimensions of 5 inches by 7 inches.One former staffer at Uline’s headquarters recalled a coworker who was forced to remove several drawings done by his young child.
“Liz would walk up and down the aisles, and if your desk looked off, you’d be written up,” he recalled.
#Uline #Dick #Liz #Uihlein #Doug #Mastriano #Jim #Marchant #election #falsehoods #antisemitic #speech #Edgar #John #Birch #Society #fluoridation #segregation #Edwin #Walker #George #Wallace -
Much of the cardboard and paper goods strewn about our homes
— the mail-order boxes and grocery store bags
— are sold by a single private company, with its name, #Uline, stamped on the bottom.Few Americans know that a multibillion-dollar fortune made on those ubiquitous products is now
💥fueling election deniers and other far-right candidates across the country.#Dick and #Liz #Uihlein of Illinois are the largest contributors to Pennsylvania gubernatorial candidate #Doug #Mastriano, who attended the Jan. 6 rally and was linked to a prominent antisemite, and have given to #Jim #Marchant, the Nevada Secretary of State nominee who says he opposed the certification of Joe Biden’s election victory in 2020.
They are major funders to groups spreading #election #falsehoods, including "Restoration of America", which, according to an internal document obtained by ProPublica, aims to “get on God’s side of the issues and stay there” and
👉 “punish leftists.”Flush with profits from their shipping supply company, the Uihleins have emerged as
⭐️the No. 1 federal campaign donors for Republicans ahead of the November elections, and
⭐️the No. 2 donors overall behind liberal financier George Soros.The couple has spent at least $121 million on state and federal politics in the last two years alone,
🔥fighting taxes, unions, abortion rights and marijuana legalization.The German-American clan made their original fortune in the 19th century as owners of the Milwaukee brewery Schlitz.
Family members were staples of the Chicago Tribune society pages.
In 1917, Dick’s grandfather was identified as a millionaire in a Chicago Tribune humor item about how the wealthy man had fired an unqualified chauffeur.
When Dick and Liz Uihlein donated millions in recent years to the pro-Trump super PAC "America First Action", they were following in a family tradition.
Edgar J. Uihlein of Chicago was among the handful of largest donors to the original "America First Committee", the aviator Charles Lindbergh’s group that opposed the United States’ entry into World War II.
(It’s unclear whether that was Edgar Sr., Dick’s grandfather, or Edgar Jr., his father, who had just graduated from college.)While "America First" drew supporters from across the political spectrum, it was most associated with rightists.
Uihlein’s donation was disclosed in 1941.
Later that year, Lindbergh gave an openly #antisemitic #speech assailing Jewish influence.
When Edgar Uihlein Sr. died in 1956, his estate was valued at $4.8 million
— more than $50 million in today’s dollars
— and the money was left in a trust for his heirs, newspapers reported at the time.Dick’s father, #Edgar Uihlein Jr., who had started a plastics company after serving in the Navy during World War II, established himself as 💥an important funder of far-right political groups in the 1960s.
A document from 1963 identifies Edgar Uihlein Jr. as on the ⚠️National Finance Committee of the #John #Birch #Society.
Founded a few years earlier, the group quickly became a significant force to the right of the Republican Party, known for its obsessively anti-communist politics.
The Birchers combined hostility to New Deal social programs with lurid conspiracies, famously campaigning against “the horrors of #fluoridation,” a supposed Red plot.
The group fiercely opposed civil rights.
An entry in one 1963 Birch newsletter railed against the upcoming March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, where Martin Luther King would give his
“I Have a Dream” speech:
“the only good Americans who should have anything to do with this Communist-instigated mob in any way, or pay any attention to it in Washington, are the police required to maintain law and order.”Edgar Uihlein Jr. supported politicians who embraced #segregation.
In early 1962, he sponsored a speech that brought to Chicago a former U.S. Army general named #Edwin #Walker.
Walker toured the country attacking supposed communist conspiracies and civil rights, while celebrating the Southern defeat of Reconstruction, which he labeled “the tyranny within our own white race.”
The Anti-Defamation League,
which tracked far-right figures in the period,
has archives showing Edgar Uihlein Jr.’s involvement with several other groups and campaigns,
including a $1,000 contribution to the presidential campaign of segregationist #George #Wallace in 1968.It’s not clear when, if ever, Uihlein’s association with the John Birch Society ended.
As late as 1977, the founder of the group wrote a long letter to him asking for money.
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Medicine’s Response to the Changing Science on Fluoride Safety
https://youtu.be/scazEGy3Feg?si=8obkvCjPC-HwS-Ij -
Skeptoid #58: All About Fluoridation by Brian Dunning #fluoridation #fluoride #conspiracy #naturopathy #SkeptoidPodcast #podcast #bot A few fringe activists claim that fluoridation of water carries more danger than benefit.
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From 21 Oct: Man says he secretly lowered his town’s water fluoride for over a decade - EnlargeGetty MediaNews Group The longtime water superintendent for a small to... https://arstechnica.com/science/2022/10/anti-fluoride-water-manager-resigns-after-secretly-lowering-towns-levels/ #cavities #cdc #dental-health #fluoridation #fluoride #health #richmond #science #vermont #water
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Man says he secretly lowered his town’s water fluoride for over a decade - Enlarge (credit: Getty | MediaNews Group)
The longtime water s... - https://arstechnica.com/?p=1892003 #dentalhealth #fluoridation #cavities #fluoride #richmond #science #vermont #health #water #cdc
