Including ingestion of fluoride (the anion of fluorine) and water fluoridation (the addition of fluoride to water supplies to promote dental health)
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Is water fluoridation harmful?
There’s a controversy going around whether the benefits of water fluoridation outweigh the potential harms.
What is the evidence for the harm this may cause and what evidence supports the health benefits?
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Has fluoride been classified as a neurotoxin?
My Facebook feed includes a report that fluoride has recently been officially classified as a neurotoxin.
Awareness Act, 5 April 2018
A big step has been made here recently. In the most prestigious medical journal. One known as The Lancet.…
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Is fluoride an ingredient in Prozac and rat poison?
The Raw Food Family, with almost half a million likes, made this post on June 15, 2014.
It claims,
In 1955, Crest became the first fluoride toothpaste.
Fluoride calcifies the pineal gland, otherwise known as your 3rd eye which literally has rods…
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Did the Nazis maliciously fluoridate drinking water?
Firstly, I think this is a stupid unbelievable question. However, for the sake of getting on S.SE, is there any evidence to for the Nazis using fluoride maliciously for example, to make prisoners more docile?"
Here is one graphic claiming, "Hitler…
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Is fluoride in water an industry waste product?
There are many claims made about the source of fluoride in our water, some examples are:
Intentional dosing of municipal water supplies with fluoride waste products from industry
Increased cancer risk from using phosphate waste to fluoridate…
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Has 99% of the western continental Europe banned water fluoridation?
I keep seeing this claim about the unpopularity of water fluoridation parroted.
Despite dental pressure, 99% of western continental Europe has rejected, banned, or stopped fluoridation due to environmental, health, legal, or ethical concerns
I…
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Will fluoride and chlorine dissipate from tap water left to sit overnight?
One common recommendation for watering house plants with tap water is to allow the water to sit overnight before watering, so that the fluorine and chlorine that are commonly added to tap water (which can be harmful to certain plants) will…
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Did the EPA fire a toxicologist, Dr. William Marcus, for refusing to remain silent on the cancer risk of fluoride?
I read that here in this article:
http://www.nteu280.org/Issues/Fluoride/NTEU280-Fluoride.htm
EPA fired the Office of Drinking Water's chief toxicologist, Dr. William Marcus, who also was our local union's treasurer at the time, for refusing to…
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Does consuming fluoridated water reduce IQ?
Related:
Is fluoride in water an industry waste product?
Is water fluoridation harmful?
Dr. Mercola is at it again with a new article: 25 Studies Prove This Reduces Your IQ.
The Fluoride Action Network is also urging communities to pressure…
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Was fluoride grandfathered in by the FDA because it was sold as rat poison prior to 1938?
This site makes the claim that the reason the FDA never tested fluoride for human consumption was because it was on the market prior to 1938, when the FDA was formed. This claim is pretty well referenced with a letter I will presume to be accurate,…
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Is fluoride toothpaste dangerous?
Is there any proof that the amount of fluoride that commonly used in toothpaste is unhealthy?
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Does fluoride supplementation lead to girls reaching puberty at a lower age?
Mercola writes in Fluoride Exposure May Contribute to Early Puberty:
Luke found that animals treated with fluoride had lower levels of circulating melatonin, as reflected by reduced levels of melatonin metabolites in the animals' urine. This…
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Does using a fluoride-based toothpaste or fluoride-supplemented tap water lead to higher fluoride concentration in the pineal gland?
Dr. Edward Group writes in Everything You Wanted to Know about the Pineal Gland:
Calcification is the biggest problem for the pineal gland. Fluoride accumulates in the pineal gland more than any other organ and leads to the formation of phosphate…
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Does fluoride cause the body to absorb extra aluminum?
I've recently seen a quote by one William Douglass, MD, making the rounds on facebook. It sounded suspicious, so I found the original quote on his own website:
People who warned against FLUORIDATION used to be ridiculed, but guess what? In…
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Does drinking fluoridated water prevent cavities?
The Green Vision blog made the claim that fluoride doesn't prevent cavities. Here is a quote from the article:
The topical application of fluoride is a proven method for protecting
teeth from cavities and decay. But there is no scientific…
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