Major health groups support water fluoridation as a public health benefit and emphasize that the practice is safe.

Summary

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced that a Trump administration would prioritize removing fluoride from public water systems, a position at odds with major health organizations like the CDC, the American Dental Association, and the American Academy of Pediatrics, all of which endorse water fluoridation as safe and beneficial for dental health.

Despite Kennedy’s controversial stance on health and environmental issues, which includes previously debunked claims linking vaccines to autism, Trump has praised his passion, stating that Kennedy would have significant freedom to influence health policy if Trump were elected.

  • rothaine@lemm.ee
    75·
    6 months ago

    Don’t we have real problems to solve? Why are Republicans always making up new shit?

    • Gamoc@lemmy.world
      12·
      6 months ago

      Because Democrats tend to agree with reality, so if republicans want to oppose them they must insist that reality isn’t true.

    • RagingSnarkasm@lemmy.world
      11·
      6 months ago

      Distraction 101. If we’re too busy fighting about stuff like this, we won’t come after them for the stuff they absolutely do not want to address. More often than not, the other side doesn’t really want to do the hard work either, so it’s easy to just fight with them about the meaningless shit and get credit for being the reasonable ones. Meanwhile the homeless camps get larger, the health care gets more expensive, the one income family with a pension for retirement becomes a two income family juggling multiple part time jobs with no benefits, higher education becomes something that traps you in a lifetime of loan debt, and we spend billions to elect people who will address none of it.

      Pick up a fiddle and enjoy the view of Rome.

      • FordBeeblebrox@lemmy.world
        5·
        6 months ago

        Sometimes I hope I’ll see a starship Enterprise, but it’s looking more like Bell riots and Eugenics wars for the rest of my lifetime.

        Vote blue and punch a nazi whenever you can, be the change you want to see.

  • normalexit@lemmy.world
    38·
    6 months ago

    How about making sure 100% of US residents have access to clean, safe tap water first? Eliminate lead and forever chemicals. I don’t feel strongly about fluoride, I do feel strongly you should be able to drink water from your kitchen sink without having to worry.

    • Noodle07@lemmy.world
      132·
      6 months ago

      Wow are you a commie? Tap water should only contain flammable gas from nearby fracking plants! Yeehaw

    • 🔍🦘🛎@lemmy.worldEnglish
      9·
      6 months ago

      There actually is a huge push to replace ALL lead service lines in the next few years. Also the EPA has extra funding for treatment of “emerging contaminants” which includes PFAS. Republicans are trying (and succeding) to reduce this funding.

    • Etterra@lemmy.world
      41·
      6 months ago

      See that would require 100% of Americans to be rich enough for these chucklefucks to care about us.

  • 800XL@lemmy.world
    16·
    6 months ago

    What fucking year is this? And while he’s at it, that horses’s ass can get tinfoil hats into circulation to protect against <dumb old ass boomer conspiracy theory bullshit>

    God damn it, will all these fossils with their lead poisoned brains just die already?

    • NormalPerson@lemmy.world
      2·
      6 months ago

      I used to respect the hell outta my boss. Chief engineer, man can fix and diagnose just about anything. Then he started talking about this guy and how great he is… Like how can someone be so smart yet so so dumb? How can you not apply the same critical thinking into politics as you do into your work? Where does the disconnect come in?

  • Rapidcreek@lemmy.world
    51·
    6 months ago

    The old John Birch society hated fluoride too. So much so, that Barry Goldwater took up the cause when he ran against JFK. Of course, he lost. Now they try to dress it up with junk science and it’s RFK and Trump.

  • Jumpingspiderman@lemmy.world
    41·
    6 months ago

    In the universe of bad and crazy things that brain worm addled RFK jr. would do, this is one of the least bad and crazy.

    • Omgpwnies@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      6 months ago

      It’s quite bad and crazy though. fluoridated water helps to protect people’s teeth, and all you need to do is drink tap water. This means that anyone with access to tap water will get at least some basic protection against tooth decay and all the health problems that stem from that.

      Without fluoridated water, the people who do not have access to regular dental care (including toothbrushes and toothpaste) will be the ones who suffer the most. Those are the people who will end up in emergency rooms with infections, heart disease, etc. and will also not be able to pay the hospital bill, thus not only adding stress to already stretched thin emergency rooms, but also overall creating a larger financial burden on the industry.

      Something something an ounce of prevention and all…