Originally published at: How RFK’s War on Fluoride Is Taking Over the Dentist’s Office - TPM – Talking Points Memo
Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy has maintained that the target of his war on fluoride is ingested fluoride — specifically that from fluoridated drinking water and oral supplements. But the misinformed policy efforts to ban community water fluoridation and restrict access to fluoride supplements are having spillover effects in dentists’ offices. Twenty…
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So RFK jr has gone full General Jack D. Ripper; I guess we should be glad he doesn’t command a wing of nuclear-armed bombers.
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Many people, including strong men with tears in their eyes, are saying RFK Jr.’s brainworm snorted cocaine from the inside of a toilet bowl.
These people should direct their efforts towards eliminating actual hazards to public health, like tobacco.
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Throwing us a curve today? Nicely done.
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Thought I’d get that in before all the hyperbolic comments started.
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I guess it’s like Beatle George said: You’ll have to have them all pulled out after … Fake RFK has implemented all of his stupid and evil plans.
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Call me crazy, call me foolish, but I don’t think a former drug addict with a drug addled brain who confessed to snorting coke off of a toilet seat should be head of HHS. I know, I know, it’s just me…
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I didn’t recognize this as satire at first. We’re living in the dumbest of all possible timelines.
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Doesn’t almost everyone in the administration carry the stink of drug use? I’m sure RFK Jr’s drug use is considered a feature-not-a-bug.
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I may not be the only dentist in our merry band of TPMers, but I haven’t seen it said here recently: this is virtually the same as his attempts to bring back measles, smallpox, and polio. We were thiiiis close to eliminating almost all truly preventable cavities in the vast majority of Americans on municipal water supplies. Removing fluoride from the water supply will have devastating health consequences. Your dentist won’t get richer (for another generation or so), but your children will suffer the same life-long dental issues their ancestors did.
Most people under ~60 years old have forgotten why they don’t have cavities (not unlike polio), but I bet their parents and grandparents have stories to tell about their horror-movie dental experiences. (Is it safe…?) Ask your rurally-raised friends (unfluoridated well water) about their cavities.
There have always been John Birchers, etc. who have a conspiracy belief for everything (a la Dr. Strangelove’s Gen. Jack Ripper ranting that fluoride is part of the “international Communist conspiracy to sap and impurify all of our precious bodily fluids." But they rarely got traction until the Internet existed where the gullible can’t (or don’t bother to) differentiate science/reality from idiocy and intentional mischief. Now, of course, we have the least qualified person sitting as head of every organization der Trumpenfürher can control. Pass the popcorn….
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Not quite. We’ll know he’s finally arrived when he starts talking about being robbed of precious bodily fluids and the value of pure spring water as a bar mixer.
Snorted plenty of cocaine. Never off a toilet seat.
Gave it up about 2000, didn’t think the heart would take it, but was fun back in the day
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Back in the ‘60s I had a Nazi dentist. Mom gave me milk before bed and I had 13 cavities on my first trip.
Said if you don’t shut up I’ll make it hurt more.
He had hairy fingers. Dr. Tell. I hope he’s dead by now.
Now I have an awesome dentist
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The podcast “Know Rogan Experience” is two skeptics listening to and commenting on individual Joe Rogan episodes. They make a point of not arguing about opinions, just fact checking Rogan and his guests. They also usually have a “toolbox” segment where they talk about a particular fallacy category and use sound bites from the episode to demonstrate the fallacy in action.
They’ve had two episodes on RFK Jr’s appearances on Rogan, and one on the Means siblings appearance. I recommend spending the time to listen to get an idea of the level of reasoning being trumpeted through Rogan’s megaphone.
Fluoine was a communist plot in the fifties. I lived at the dentist.
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I spent 20+ years working with fluorochemicalsl.
Did you know that all your food wrappers are treated with fluorochemicals? It stops the grease from soaking through. I’’ve made paper from scratch. Done coatings for semi-con facilities. Done wire coatings. Most people have no idea. Think Teflon, but that’s DuPont’s trade name. It’s great s**t
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But HF is some of the nastiest stuff around.
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