Is the Fluoride in Your Water Poisoning You?

The fluoride debate has been raging for some time now. Studies highlighting its acute toxicity continue to pour in, and yet organizations like the CDC, the ADA, and Pew are still sticking to the same old story: there’s nothing wrong with it, fluoridated water is a towering health achievement, and we should all stop worrying and just trust them.

Never mind that the system we’re being asked to trust is the same one that once thought lead, arsenic, DDT, asbestos, and cigarettes were healthful utilitarian tools. The age of these gross misconceptions is the same one that gave birth to the bright idea of water fluoridation. Scientists of the time—the 1940’s—came to what they considered a brilliant realization: since fluoride seems to prevent tooth decay, and since fluoride is produced as a natural byproduct of industrial phosphate production, why not kill two birds with one stone by dumping this industrial waste product in municipal water?

We will never understand how lacing our drinking water with a pollutant that is “filtered” from industrial smokestacks could ever seem like a good idea to anyone.Considering that many of the people who pulled the strings of public policy during this time period were also directly connected to the companies from which this collected fluoride was purchased, it’s hard not to suspect malicious intent.

But whether or not you believe in a grander conspiracy surrounding water fluoridation, there’s still plenty of reason for concern...................................