History has been made. After 7 years of pursuing legal action against the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) over the risk posed to the developing brain by the practice of water fluoridation, the United States District Court of the Northern District of California has just ruled on behalf of the Fluoride Action Network and the plaintiffs in our precedent-setting court case. A U.S. federal court has now deemed fluoridation an "unreasonable risk" to the health of children, and the EPA will be forced to regulate it as such. The decision is written very strongly in our favor, and we will share it in its entirety tomorrow. Below is an excerpt from the introduction of the ruling:
"The issue before this Court is whether the Plaintiffs have established by a preponderance of the evidence that the fluoridation of drinking water at levels typical in the United States poses an unreasonable risk of injury to health of the public within the meaning of Amended TSCA. For the reasons set forth below, the Court so finds. Specifically, the Court finds that fluoridation of water at 0.7 milligrams per liter (“mg/L”) – the level presently considered “optimal” in the United States – poses an unreasonable risk of reduced IQ in children..the Court finds there is an unreasonable risk of such injury, a risk sufficient to require the EPA to engage with a regulatory response...One thing the EPA cannot do, however, in the face of this Court’s finding, is to ignore that risk."
Excellent! Thanks for all the hard work, perseverance, and determination!
Ditto that. Thanks on behalf of all of us.
Great News for all the Children!
Sadly it'll still take time and probably appealed to waste more time, all while the process continues and children suffer.
Glad for the ruling, of course. It's a huge win. Now we just got to get them to stop actually adding it.
I've been waiting for this decision all summer. I had a bunch of family tell me I'm crazy when I told them Fluoride should be taken out of our drinking water. Can't wait to share this news with them.
I follow Fluoride Action Network on X and did not see this announcement in my feed. I think there's still some algorithmic fuckery happening over at Elon's free speech platform.
Be sure to get Fluoride Free Toothpaste as well. A couple brands carried at your local stores are Hello and Tom's.
I do that. Also, plain aloe vera gel works well as toothpaste.
The deeper question WHY, why are our cities still putting this toxic chemical into our water supply https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30868981/
Gotta get rid of that toxic sludge somehow. It's a by-product. 🙄
The Nazis used it to keep prisoners complacent. They still are.
It wasn't Nazis. There is no proof. It was the Gulags in Soviet Russia that did.
I seem to me this ruling would be strong evidence a town citizen could present to a city council, and the local community paper, whose editor is usually more conservative than MSM editors, to demand that the town quite putting the poison into the water system.
I grew up on a farm, with well water. As a child, we took daily "fluoride pills" that we chewed up. We had very few cavities, compared to my classmates who lived on well water, but took no supplements. It seemed at the time, my sibling's dental health was comparable to that of the kids who were on "city water". We are talking SDak back in the 1960-70's.
Is there a safe level that is beneficial?
I've seen this as well. There are multiple types of fluoride. Calcium fluoride is actually safe, Sodium Flouride is what they use to poison everyone.
No fluoride is safe.
whats your source for that? I have looked pretty deeply into this and have not found that to be the case. Calcium Fluoride is naturally formed in the mouth and found in teeth. Calcium fluoride is actually not used in dental applications because it has low solubility, meaning the fluoride is not easily separated from the calcium. Sodium Fluoride is easily dissolved and releases its fluoride ion very quickly into the body. That is why sodium fluoride is used more often, it is similar to the naturally occurring calcium fluoride but much more dangerous.
NO.
NO.
Without knowing how they brushed their teeth (or not) one anecdote isn't much help.
Some people are prone to cavities even with fluoride and brushing and flossing, it's just genetic how your mouth is.
Interesting.
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LFG!!
https://rumble.com/v46s5yt-fluoride-on-trial-the-censored-science-on-fluoride-and-your-health.html
This is the best video I've found on the subject, in case anyone wants to get up to speed.
But will the EPA just ignore the ruling and continue on?
“One thing the EPA cannot do, however, in the face of this Court’s finding, is to ignore that risk."
Probably not, but they will most likely introduce a bunch of other things quietly, things that cause accelerated tooth rot, and point to it and say 'See?!? This is what happens when you take fluoride out, you should listen to us!'
It will be quietly removed and not mentioned. Most likely scenario.
It is in a lot of over the counter products... I bet the EPA will side step those; FDA's department.
Yep! In a lot of prescription medications to make them pass through the blood brain barrier!
For supposedly being the party of science, progressives simply ignore science that doesn't support their skewed worldview.
"Fluoride is safe", "chromosomes don't matter", "anthropogenic global warming", etc.
Imagine, actually basing decisions on evidence and good data!
don't forget "babies are just a clump of cells!"
That makes rage.
Like, yeah. Living things ARE clumps of cells (unless they're single cell organisms). But that's not ALL they are. It's also an amoeba, or a penguin, or you know... A developing human being.
Always makes me want to respond with, "ok, and 'women's reproductive rights' is JUST a liberal catchphrase. Oh, you mean it's more nuanced than that? Maybe there is more nuance to an unborn baby too..."
Wouldn't the ruling on the Chevron Doctrine allow for overturning all imposed regulations from these agencies?
You actually answered your own question, but it is likely not the answer you wanted. Yes - it allows for the overturning of a bunch of stuff. No - it doesn't mandate it. That will require either court cases to force the issue, or someone that doesn't care about career longevity with those agencies to change it from within. Translation - it will take time and money.
Yeah, I realize that the agencies aren't going to undo these regulations themselves and instead it's going to take a court case brought from the outside. But the Chevron Doctrine ruling seems as if it would go a long way in supporting any such case brought against an agency.
Absolutely! The trick is finding someone with the time, money, and the infamous "standing" to get there.
I'd hope Stephen Miller and America First Legal would be starting to chip away at the agencies after the Chevron Doctrine ruling. As well as a whole bunch of other conservative legal firms. Of course they have to find the impacted victims, but since the ruling was they could go back in time, indefinitely?, they should have no problem finding victims from past cases I'm thinking.
I wanna print this out and slap every dentist that ever mocked me right in the fkng face with it
👏 Yahoo! Now maybe someone will connect the dots and realize fluoridated toothpaste poses a risk as well!!!
I thought everything was known to cause cancer in California. Well, this is a good win, even if it is in California. ;)
Just curious, who regulates the EPA? Whose gonna enforce them to do this?
Awesome! That's an amazing accomplishment! Wish my state would do this.
I just found out recently, due to my own health conditions, that drinking fluoridated water is also shown to increase cases of hypothyroidism, which is what I'm currently dealing with. I was trying to better myself by drinking more water and instead I got an autoimmune disease that attacks my thyroid. Fantastic.
I've been able to find a relatively inexpensive water filter that actually does filter out fluoride, which is impossible to find with typical pitcher filters. If you're curious, I really recommend Clearly Filtered, and you can check out vids on YouTube that actually test the water before and after being filtered to see if fluoride is indeed filtered out, and it is! I'm loving it so far, my water tastes so much better, and I'm hoping that reducing the amount of fluoride I consume (which shouldn't happen anyway, but obviously it's in our water and many other things, so it's hard to avoid these days) will help ease my thyroid symptoms.
It's federal. Precedent is now set.
Great news!
Bravo!
https://fluoridealert.org/content/we-won-federal-court-rules-that-fluoridation-chemicals-pose-an-unreasonable-risk-to-health/
Holy Shit!
That’s a lot of lawsuits
This is great news :)
Spread this far and wide
Well, there goes the entire premise of "Dr. Strangelove." Great win, regardless.
James Earl Jones just passed: Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb enters the chat.
I do not disagree that 0.7 mg?L is too much, the data supports this. But the difference between a cure and a poison is the dosage.
What level is considered "beneficial" for preventing tooth decay, yet not harmful? Or is this a case that, like lead (Pb) or mercury (Hg), there is no safe dosage?
Government has no right to put anything in our water or food, or anything we consume. It doesn't matter if they had good intentions, or not. The fact is that there is no authority or power granted for federal, state, or local governments to do this.
Ingesting flouride does not prevent tooth decay. Proper diet and oral hygeine prevents tooth decay. Some topical application of flouride may temporarily protect teeth from improper diet and/or poor oral hygeine.
So the optimal dosage of flouride in drinking water is none.
This is very very good news
Fluoride is poison, pure and simple. Read the back of a tube of toothpaste.
It's a US District Court, just happens to be in Northern CA. Of Course Northern CA is mostly red.