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As bans spread, fluoride in drinking water divides communities across the US
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You can't trust this stuff. I only drink water straight from the creek and- excuse me, my diarrhea is acting up.
What a bad faith argument.
Most people who want to avoid fluoride in their drinking water use reverse osmosis.
Then I guess there's a solution and we don't need to remove it for everyone else.
Why should people have to resort to using reverse osmosis to avoid fluoride in their drinking water?
Also, good job pivoting instead of admitting you were arguing in bad faith.
I expect you to keep doing that.
For the same reason people should "have to" resort to anything else they don't want that everyone else is fine with. You don't get to choose for society as a whole.
If you don't want to eat inspected meat, fine. Go raise or hunt your own.
Like lead in gasoline? The thing is, everyone else is not "fine" with this. Why do you think there's an article about it?
Why should people have to suffer at the hands of idiots who want to ban fluoride in water?
That's a loaded question because people do not suffer without fluoridated water.
Do you want to explain how they suffer without fluoridated water? That way you're talking specifics that can actually be debated upon instead of generalities where people need to make your arguments for you.
No you're wrong. It's no loaded. Lack of fluoride increased the risk of tooth decay. https://www.msdmanuals.com/home/disorders-of-nutrition/minerals/fluoride-deficiency
Jeez, you really can't read, can you?
I don't expect you to be capable of making worthwhile arguments, so I'm just going to end this here.
Goodbye.
The point is that there are people that cannot regularly afford fluoridated toothpaste or for some other legitimate reason cannot brush their teeth as often as is recommended. Fluoridated water is the best and only dental care many Americans get, and it doesn't carry any harms that are even meaningfully measurable.
What? We put fluoride in water because people can't afford toothpaste or brush their teeth? That's news to me.
So you're saying that there's no point in having fluoridated water if you have proper dental hygiene?
Nobody said that.
For someone who keeps accusing others of arguing in bad faith you sure do seem to enjoy doing it yourself.
The epidemiological data shows that even people with adequate dental hygiene and healthcare access benefit from fluoridated water. Communities with fluoridated water have lower rates of tooth decay and associated oral diseases across all socioeconomic strata.