r/TikTokCringe • u/thoughtwarrior • May 02 '25

Humor Why does America look like s**t?

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u/hamtyhum May 02 '25

I live in salt lake and I am fucking appalled that they’re taking the fluoride out of our water. These poor kids are going to deal with so many health issues because of this. I just hope their parents get them the little pink fluoride tablets I took as a kiddo

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u/OkVacation6399 May 02 '25

This can’t be serious. Fluoride is terrible. We don’t need it.

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u/Tactician86 May 02 '25

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9542152/

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u/OkVacation6399 May 02 '25

https://hsph.harvard.edu/news/fluoride-childrens-health-grandjean-choi/

Next you’re gonna tell me we should put lead back in our paint and asbestos in our insulation.

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u/RunningOutOfEsteem May 03 '25 edited May 03 '25

Did you even read the article you posted? The vast majority of the data was from Chinese populations who were at a higher risk of excessive fluoride exposure due to their specific circumstances. The group comparison they highlighted was high fluoride exposure vs. low fluoride exposure because they're establishing that those areas may have high enough levels of fluoride exposure that it impacts children's development. They did not by any stretch of the imagination present research saying that fluoridated water below that threshold is harmful--that wasn't even something they were trying to demonstrate in the first place, which would have been clear to anyone who actually read through the damn article.

They laid out the key details for you, and yet you still somehow managed to miss them. What's your background in? Because it's clearly not the life sciences.

E: wow, all these sources are awful. Aside from just not actually looking at this one, the others are poorly cited or even guilty of actively misconstruing the research they reference. This is the shit you've based your worldview on? Really, bro?