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Why Exactly Does the Government Dump Toxic Fluoride 73% of the US population, according to official estimates, has its drinking water fluoridated. “Water fluoridation” means that the government adds a synthetic form of the potentially toxic chemical fluoride into the water under the guise of Public Health™. The most common synthetic form of fluoride the Public Health™ authorities use is a particularly dangerous formula called fluorosilicic acid. Fluorosilicic acid has been shown to damage DNA and induce oxidative stress, per Mutation Research, “at concentrations used in drinking water induced genotoxicity, oxidative stress, and acceleration of bone mineralization.” Fluoride in all forms is a documented neurotoxin, meaning it’s toxic to the brain. MCLG is an acronym that stands for “maximum contaminant level goal.” As explained via the EPA, “MCLG is the maximum level of a contaminant in drinking water at which no known or anticipated adverse effect on the health of persons would occur.” Via an integrated literature review on the potential adverse health effects of water fluoridation published in Environmental Health:
So what that means is that the study founds negative health effects from fluoride in water at levels below what the EPA deems acceptable. The study’s authors, accordingly, plead for increases in the MCGL thresholds the government uses to assess water safety:
The Public Health™ authorities are well-apprised of the dangers fluoride poses. Per the CDC Community Water Fluoridation guidelines, for instance, parents are instructed to make sure their children spit out fluoridated toothpaste. Yet it offers no similar caution regarding the drinking water statistically likely to contain toxic levels of fluoride, which the children are presumably encouraged to guzzle at will:
The dangers of water fluoridation are right out in the open. We have shown so far that the CDC acknowledges the threat fluoridated water poses at levels commonly found in the water supply, and there is good evidence that even the arbitrarily established “safe” threshold is unsafe. No fluoride, even naturally occurring forms, is passed to a baby through the mother’s breast milk. It is not a natural chemical that developing humans are meant to ingest, and it’s certainly not meant to be dumped by the government into the water supply. Regardless of the safety or lack thereof of fluoride, it seems to me that, if the government insists on being in the business of water at all, it should be tasked with delivering purified water — as in the molecule H2O minus any added toxic chemicals. People would then be at liberty to add whatever chemicals they like to suit their taste. Were they so inclined to season their water with fluoride, they could go nuts. That would not seem to be an unreasonable ask or an extreme policy prescription. The ultimate questions we’re forced to reckon with are:
The answers, which you can come to on your own terms, are not pretty. Ben Bartee is an independent Bangkok-based American journalist with opposable thumbs. Join Armageddon Prose via Substack or Locals if you are inclined to support independent journalism free of corporate slant. Also, follow Armageddon Prose at Gab and Twitter for the latest content. Insta-tip jar and Bitcoin public address: bc1qvq4hgnx3eu09e0m2kk5uanxnm8ljfmpefwhawv
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