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https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/duly-processed-saturday-may-17-2025

Thursday, the Associated Press reported, “DeSantis signs a bill making Florida the 2nd state to ban fluoride from its water system.” ...




Fluoride pushback is sweeping the country. According to an NPR story, five more states have pending anti-fluoride bills: Kentucky, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Nebraska, and South Carolina. More anti-fluoride bills either failed or stalled in committee in North Dakota, Arkansas, Tennessee, Montana and New Hampshire. Other states like Hawaii, New Jersey, and Oregon already have fluoridation rates languishing in the low double digits.

Low-fluoride states like Hawaii don’t have epidemics of cavities, a fact the fake news media never mentions.

Not to be outdone, the federal government is also moving against the stupefying chemical, which, as Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. has noted, is a by-product of industrial hazardous waste. The FDA announced a ban on all “ingestible fluoride products” —tablets, lozenges, and drops— for children. Dentists prescribe these products to parents who live in fluoride-free areas. ...

The Times “forgot” about a peer-reviewed JAMA study released this year. The Gray Lady even ran a story about it in January, headlined “Study Links High Fluoride Exposure to Lower I.Q. in Children.” That January story also correctly reported that a federal court found fluoride was potentially dangerous: “Last September, U.S. District Judge Edward Chen in San Francisco ordered the Environmental Protection Agency to strengthen regulations for fluoride in drinking water because of research suggesting that high levels might pose a risk to the intellectual development of children.”

But the Times’ fluoride article this week conveniently omitted its own January article. It mentioned neither Judge Chen’s verdict, nor the gold-standard JAMA study it had just reported only three months earlier. I concede that Times reporters are competing with President Autopen for lowest IQ scores —maybe the result of too much childhood fluoridation— but seriously. It literally only took me five seconds of googling, and I don’t even work there.

Perhaps a better question is: why is corporate media covering for big fluoride?

https://tdefender.substack.com/p/maxs-story-water-fluoridation-utah-lawmakers

Max’s Story: What Happens When Water Fluoridation Goes Wrong

In 2019, fifth-grader Max Widmaier was poisoned when a malfunctioning pump in Sandy, Utah, released undiluted hydrofluorosilicic acid into the water, sickening over 200 people. ...

Max unknowingly drank the over-fluoridated water in school. Soon after, he spiked a high fever, developed tics, had severe emotional swings, and experienced developmental regression so severe that at one point he lost the ability to compose sentences, his mother, Jenny Widmaier, told The Defender.

“I don’t remember fifth grade,” Max told Utah lawmakers. “That year is just a gaping hole where memory should be … because I drank the fluoridated water that day when Sandy City broke its line to public water.”

https://tdefender.substack.com/p/sugar-industry-falsified-science-to-sell-america-fluoride-kelloggs-ada-study

Sugar Industry Falsified Science to Sell America on Fluoride

A new study reveals the sugar industry has manipulated fluoride science since the 1930s — exaggerating benefits, concealing risks and steering attention away from sugar’s role in tooth decay.

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A new study reveals the sugar industry has manipulated fluoride science since the 1930s — exaggerating benefits, concealing risks and steering attention away from sugar’s role in tooth decay.

I wonder if I could sell fluoridated sugar.

https://tdefender.substack.com/p/fda-warning-companies-selling-unapproved-fluoride-supplements-kids

The FDA never approved fluoride supplements, which come in tablet or lozenge form. However, doctors have routinely prescribed them for decades — even to babies as young as 6 months old — to prevent cavities.

For more than two decades, research has shown that fluoride helps teeth only when applied topically — as with toothpaste — not when ingested.

The supplements can cause dental fluorosis, a tooth discoloration that signals fluoride overexposure. Overwhelming evidence now shows that swallowing fluoride can lower children’s IQ and contribute to neurobehavioral issues and thyroid problems.

‘Formal FDA restriction of fluoride supplements is long overdue’

In January, top government scientists published a review in JAMA Pediatrics showing that early fluoride exposure was linked to lower IQ scores in children. ...

“This flies in the face of claims by proponents of fluoride ingestion, like the American Dental Association [ADA], who have made it their policy to prescribe fluoride to children as young as 6 months of age,” Cooper said.

Manufacturers launched fluoride supplements in the 1940s and later effectively grandfathered them into the regulatory process. The supplements never underwent the safety and effectiveness testing that FDA-regulated drugs typically require, and the agency never formally approved them.

Before 1938, dentists did not use sodium fluoride. Instead, people commonly used it to poison roaches and rodents.

https://tdefender.substack.com/p/epa-accused-not-public-health-water-fluoridation-battle-heats-fluoride-action-network

The legal battle over fluoridated drinking water escalated today when attorneys for Food & Water Watch (FWW), Fluoride Action Network (FAN) and other plaintiffs filed a brief accusing the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) of trying “to protect the EPA from the public” rather than protecting public health. ...

Under Section 21 of TSCA, any person may petition the EPA to compel rulemaking for chemicals the agency has failed to adequately regulate — which FWW, FAN and other authors of the 2016 petition did.

When the EPA denied their petition, the FWW, FAN and others sued. The fluoride lawsuit — the first citizen-petition case to be heard in federal court — dragged out for seven years.

https://fluoridealert.org/researchers/government-reports/timeline-the-tsca-law-suit-against-u-s-epa/

... More than 200 million Americans drink fluoridated water. As the case moves forward, communities nationwide are reassessing whether to continue fluoridating their water based on evidence raised in the lawsuit.

Since the District Court ruling, more than 60 U.S. towns and counties and two states have voted to end fluoridation.

Wtf do babies with no teeth need this. They are poisoning us to dumb us down.

Lol, General Jack D. Ripper from Dr. Strangelove was right after all.

In Stanley Kubrick's 1964 film Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb, Brigadier General Jack D. Ripper, portrayed by Sterling Hayden, is a central character whose paranoid delusions drive the plot toward nuclear catastrophe.

Ripper believes that the fluoridation of public water supplies is part of a sinister Communist conspiracy to undermine the purity of American citizens' "precious bodily fluids".

He claims that the introduction of fluoride into water began in 1946, coinciding with the rise of the post-war Communist movement, and argues that this act of introducing a foreign substance without individual knowledge or consent is a hallmark of a "hard-core Commie" strategy.

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He claims that the introduction of fluoride into water began in 1946, coinciding with the rise of the post-war Communist movement, and argues that this act of introducing a foreign substance without individual knowledge or consent is a hallmark of a "hard-core Commie" strategy.

He was right, because the Commies did it first and even worse than here. Fluoridation poisoning the water supply was one of the hot topics for the John Birch Society as an example of creeping socialism. The Public Health (non) Service did huge propaganda promotions to justify fluoride, mostly the children's dental decay ploy.

https://tdefender.substack.com/p/bbc-editors-blocked-story-on-latest

BBC Editors Blocked Story on Latest Fluoride Science Over ‘Scaremongering’ Concerns, Former Reporter Says

A former BBC health correspondent said Tuesday that editors repeatedly blocked his efforts to report on new research and legal findings questioning the safety of water fluoridation.

Michele Paduano spent three decades reporting for the BBC from the West Midlands, the first region in the U.K. to fluoridate its water supply, in 1964.

At a Fluoride Action Network (FAN) press conference on Tuesday, Paduano said he became interested in water fluoridation after reviewing the landmark 2024 decision by the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California.

The court found that the U.S. fluoridation level of 0.7 milligrams per liter (mg/L) posed an “unreasonable risk” to children’s health. The West Midlands fluoridates its water at 1 mg/L, about 30% higher than the recommended U.S. level.

Paduano said professor Vyvyan Howard, a pathologist specializing in toxicology and a long-time collaborator, alerted him to several major cohort studies in top academic journals linking water fluoridation to lower IQ in children. ...

Paduano said he pitched the fluoride story through the BBC’s planning process and arranged an interview with West Midlands anti-fluoridation campaigner Joy Warren. Senior online and television editors abruptly cancelled the interview.

“They told me the story was scaremongering,” he said. Internal BBC scientists and public-health staff insisted there was no credible new evidence. Paduano said he challenged the decision and urged editors to read the U.S. court judgment, but they instead accused him of bias.

“As a BBC journalist, impartiality is fundamental. But impartiality also means reporting new evidence when it emerges,” he said.

https://tdefender.substack.com/p/pg-agrees-stop-deceptive-marketing-crest-toothpaste-kids

Procter & Gamble (P&G) will limit its deceptive marketing of Crest fluoride toothpaste to children, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton announced Thursday.

Under the terms of an agreement reached last month, P&G’s advertising of its children’s toothpaste to children under age 6 will reflect age-appropriate toothpaste amounts, beginning this month.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the American Dental Association (ADA), the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) and others recommend that children under age 3 use no more than a “smear” of fluoride toothpaste. Children ages 3 to 6 should use no more than a “pea-sized” amount.

Although that information is included in fine print on the toothpaste’s label, Crest’s marketing materials often show images of a toothbrush with a full strip of toothpaste, implying a full strip is the recommended quantity.

Research has shown that advertising and labeling tactics by toothpaste manufacturers prompt parents to use more toothpaste than is safe, leading children to overconsume toothpaste.

A 2024 study in Nature found that parents tend to overload toothbrushes by a factor of six to seven times the recommended amount.

“When parents are teaching their kids the basic habit of brushing their teeth, they shouldn’t have to worry about deceptive marketing endangering their children,” said Paxton.

“Misleading images that show excessive amounts of fluoride toothpaste put children’s health and brain development at risk. This settlement is an important step in ensuring that large corporations like P&G no longer engage in these deceptive practices.”

In May 2024, Paxton launched an investigation into the makers of Colgate and Crest toothpastes for marketing fluoride toothpaste products to parents and kids in ways that are “misleading, deceptive, and dangerous.”

https://tdefender.substack.com/p/pasco-washington-becomes-latest-city-to-end-water-fluoridation

‘People Should Make Their Own Healthcare Decisions’: Pasco, Washington, Becomes Latest City to End Water Fluoridation

Pasco, Washington, joined 80 other communities, including two states — Utah and Florida — and several counties that have ended fluoridation since September 2024.

The city of Pasco, Washington, became one of the largest cities to end water fluoridation since September 2024, when a federal judge ruled that fluoridated water poses an “unreasonable risk” to children.

City officials in November 2025 voted 4-2 to end the practice.

Pasco, which has a population of about 80,000, is one of at least seven city councils in the state to debate water fluoridation.

Before voting on the issue, the city held a public debate. According to the city’s website, the debate attracted “the highest level of participation for any public input campaign in recent City history.”

“The more people know about fluoridation, the more they’re opposed to it,” Fluoride Action Network (FAN) board member Rick North told The Defender. City by city, they’re finding out, and more and more city councils are voting accordingly.”

https://fluoridealert.org/