The US National Toxicology Program systematic review on fluoride exposure and neurodevelopment and cognition has just been released. IMO it plays down the risk, but even if you take it at face value, applying a safety factor *should* mean the immediate end of forced fluoridation.
@CJMurrumbeena@DaveMilbo Protestantism is a big pile of shit just like Catholicism, so yeah, the analogy does work, funnily enough. Of course The Australian is also shit.
@ArtistAffame One of the best things someone can do for their teeth is avoid fluoride. It isn't good for teeth, it is toxic to teeth (and the rest of the body).
Avoiding dentists is also a good idea in my opinion.
As I've said previously, Judge Chen fucked up when he refused to make a ruling back in 2020.
Lee Zeldin is an enemy of the people and should be dealt with accordingly.
The EPA claims to want to Make America Healthy Again.
It had an opportunity to do just that on the fluoride issue. In the fall of 2024, a federal district court found (after hearing extensive expert testimony) that adding fluoride to water poses an unreasonable risk of neurological harm in children, and ordered EPA to eliminate this risk.
In the final days of the Biden administration, the EPA announced (as expected) its intention to appeal this landmark decision. This announcement, however, had no binding effect on Lee Zeldin and the new administration.
Zeldin had complete discretion to stand down on the appeal, and to follow the court's order to protect Americans from the health risks posed by fluoridation. Zeldin, however, chose to continue with the appeal.
Despite repeated pleas from the MAHA community, Zeldin and the EPA have persisted with its odious appeal. And now, based on a procedural technicality, a federal appeals court has granted Zeldin's request to vacate the district court's order.
EPA has thus officially undone a historic opportunity to protect the public from a toxic chemical added to most American water supplies (and all beverages and foods made with the water).
There are many ways to describe EPA's conduct here, but Making America Healthy Again is not one of them.
@SecKennedy@LeeMZeldin@FluorideAction@FluorideLawsuit
@Paul__Templeton The "social contract" was always make-believe.
The "original compact" you refer to never existed.
The system has always been authoritarian, and has never represented the people.
You are living in fairy land.
@borkedsys People, not systems, experience fear. Systems are merely sets of rules. Markets do not receive emergency protection, rich people do, and the reason is the greed, fear, and power of those people.
@StanleyMachaari Politics is about power & economics is about wealth, which is a form of power. In a capitalist system wealth is central but there are always other forms of power. Power is more fundamental than wealth & economics is a branch of politics. Marx got it the wrong way around.
@nxt888 Democracy is even more fundamental than control of resources. The problem is that people claiming to support democracy are almost always defending pseudo-democracy, due to ignorance or bad faith. Control of resources by the people is a necessary condition for democracy.
@LeonSimons8@JeffersonCraigg Don't you mean energy imbalance is not the same as temperature increase?
Also, the specific heat of any particular substance is a physical constant. Temperature increase is average kinetic energy increase.
I do understand and agree with the main point you are making, btw.
@jimbo36367272@WeatherProf Why would the temperature of the deep ocean need to be raised over 5°C in order for global heating to be a major problem? That's bizarre.
@jimbo36367272@WeatherProf It's the sun which does the warming, not the carbon dioxide. The increase in concentrations of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases result in more of the heat from the sun being trapped instead of radiating back out into space. No doubt you have 0 scientific qualifications.
@SistaRuthDOPD@john_c0nner The median is no more accurate than the average, assuming that both have been measured properly, but it is more relevant in this context.
@SistaRuthDOPD The only way for political representatives to actually be representative of the general population is for them to be randomly selected from the general population. Elections are not, and have never been, democratic processes.