Florida is poised to become the second state to ban fluoride in public drinking water, over the concerns of dentists and public health advocates who say the mineral is a safe, effective way to protect people of all ages from developing cavities.

“Anything that relates to water quality, removing contaminants, things like that, we’re not touching that,” Tuck [the bill sponsor] said. “It’s anything that has to do with health. So fluoride, vitamins, whatever else it is.”

  • BountifulEggnog [she/her]@hexbear.netOPEnglish
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    5 hours ago

    No, MAGA is on the wrong side of most issues including immigration.

    Okay, unlucky guess. What issues are they right on though?

    Fluoride is not only a nuclear waste byproduct a fact you can look up yourself, it is also a mind altering substance. It’s an ingredient in many antidepressants including Prozac. A fact you can also look up. Just because you haven’t bothered to read up on fluoride doesn’t make people that have incorrect.

    I didn’t say any of it was incorrect, but that it was irrelevant. It doesn’t matter if its a nuclear byproduct, it doesn’t matter if its in Prozac, and it doesn’t matter if its mind altering if its at doses not in drinking water. It being a byproduct is a neat fact, but doesn’t tell you that its harmful. None of what you’ve said, even if I grant it to you completely, matters.