Robert F. Kennedy Jr. described fluoride, which occurs naturally in all fresh water supplies, as an 'industrial waste' associated with various health risks.
More than half of Californians and nearly 75% of U.S. residents live in communities where fluoride has been added to drinking water to prevent tooth decay, an intervention hailed by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control as one of the 20th century’s greatest public health achievements. Yet should Donald Trump be elected to a second term, water systems will be immediately directed to end this practice, according to supporter Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
Lewis, a member of the AAP Section on Oral Health, at the time. “Water fluoridation is a public health policy based on a solid foundation of evidence.” In California, scientifically shaky skepticism of fluoridated water has been around almost as long as the stuff has been coming out of the taps.
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