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My mother was one of the most ignorant people I've ever known. Clueless, uneducated, proud of it, assured she was right about everything.

I remember her cursing her bad teeth due to lack of fluoridation in Depression-era West Virginia. I remember her telling me what a miracle the polio vaccine was, and how scared she was a child before it came along.

One time I asked my great-great-aunt, an old woman living on a Civil War-era farm, why the moon was round. She explained gravity and how it pulls the moon into a sphere.

And somehow, it this wondrous age of free information, we've collectively become more ignorant than these people. And it fucking enrages me.

And indeed, the impact on public health has been dramatic: After Calgary ended fluoridation, 700 percent more children needed intravenous antibiotics to avoid fatal dental infection. The city is now working to upgrade systems to turn the fluoride back on in 2025 after citizens mobilized to add it back.

9 out of 10 dentists (who want another boat) favour this idea

So just a genuine question, but do some % of the population just have awful teeth? Or is it just a ton of sugar?

For 95% of my life (including my childhood) I have lived in an area without fluoride, and I have never had a problem. And I only usually brush my teeth once a day. I only go to the dentist when I have insurance that covers it, which has been off and on every like 5 years of my life.

vaccines and flouride in water are the most definitive helpful things. Its so funny that in doctor strange love it was used to clearly indicate the character was a nutter.

Relevant Squidbillies clip. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=2BlJRtsQrgo

Do these people not use fluorinated toothpaste? I've been drinking primarily distilled water for about ten years now and I'm not aware of it having caused any issues for me. I'd have thought I'd get enough fluoride from brushing my teeth.

But of course. What a way to drive business to dentists.

Same reason capitalists won't cure cancer. If the cure were discovered tomorrow, they'd spend money to cover it up.

So we really are doing the bit from Dr.Strangelove just, you know, with the executive cabinet and not a single crazed general. Once again pitching the idea of spreading conspiracy theories that just take out the believers instead of convincing them to take the rest of us with them.

Do these people not brush their teeth? Fluoride in the water doesn't do shit for your teeth.

Do you really need it?

Out of a population of about three-quarters of a billion, under 14 million people (approximately 2%) in Europe receive artificially-fluoridated water. Those people are in the UK (5,797,000), Republic of Ireland (4,780,000), Spain (4,250,000), and Serbia (300,000).

Most European countries don't use it and we are fine.

sponsored by dentist lobby?