I have a theory that fluoridation is keeping bottled water and water filters on the shelves as well.

Just another artificially-inflated market trying to cash out before the next big collapse/depression, which ironically wouldn't even happen if not for greedy companies that can't wait an extra billing period for their next 100 million bucks.

Edit: Ah yes. Facts and citations are downvoted in /v/Conspiracy . I forgot about that.

Actual title: "Developmental Fluoride Neurotoxicity: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis" What they actually studied: Areas with toxic levels of fluoride . These are levels far above those used in developed nations.

Although acute fluoride poisoning may be neurotoxic to adults, most of the epidemiological information available on associations with children’s neurodevelopment is from China, where fluoride generally occurs in drinking water as a natural contaminant , and the concentration depends on local geological conditions. In many rural communities in China, populations with high exposure to fluoride in local drinking-water sources may reside in close proximity to populations without high exposure (NRC 2006).

Is @tccl a tool? Yes.

Maybe it's the fluoride causing memory loss but haven't we known this for decades now?

IQ score between exposed and reference populations was –0.45 (95% confidence interval: –0.56, –0.35)

0.45 IQ points is way down in the noise. (I stole this from the /v/science comments on the same link)

this is scary could we go the way of the romans with lead poisoning while under developed countrys flourish

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