Of course you'll want to find out how to remove fluoride from your water now, so the article links you to AltHealthWorks.com which sells you a simple filter with the claim that it will remove 90% of the fluoride in your tap water, which not even reverse osmosis can achieve.

You need an RO filter, and even a lot of those don't get it.

And here the Chinese thought it was because of the lead they put in all the products they ship to the U.S.A.

"We don't want to go starting a nuclear war unless we absolutely have to, now do we, Jack?!"

Concentrate the floride. Boiling really just works to kill bacteria and mold. Metals it just concentrates

oh come on, it's only like a few parts per million

The most successful propaganda meme of all time. All the scientific studies in the world will not convince an idiot that fluoride is neurotoxic when they are simply shown a comedic scene from a 50 year old movie.

The argument of the elite is that we deserve what we get because we are stupid sheep that can be told what to think and if they didn't control us there'd be chaos. People like you who trust 50 year old comedic movie clips over science unfortunately help prove their point.

Lancet is good, but it is not the "worlds [sic] most prestigious". That would be New England or JAMA.

this is great news

For what its worth, this isn't new. It's just been recently reported at this website. It was published in 14 February 2014.

I guess one of the things that is most worrying is:

A meta-analysis of 27 cross-sectional studies of children exposed to fluoride in drinking water, mainly from China, suggests an average IQ decrement of about seven points in children exposed to raised fluoride concentrations.[44]

Following the [44] link leads to https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3491930/ . The average difference that it reports is -0.45 standard deviations, which is indeed 6.75 IQ points. See this image for the results of each study used: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3491930/figure/f2/ . Here's some more interesting things it says:

Opportunities for epidemiological studies depend on the existence of comparable population groups exposed to different levels of fluoride from drinking water. Such circumstances are difficult to find in many industrialized countries, because fluoride concentrations in community water are usually no higher than 1 mg/L, even when fluoride is added to water supplies as a public health measure to reduce tooth decay. Multiple epidemiological studies of developmental fluoride neurotoxicity were conducted in China because of the high fluoride concentrations that are substantially above 1 mg/L in well water in many rural communities

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In response to the recommendation of the NRC (2006), the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) and the U.S. EPA recently announced that DHHS is proposing to change the recommended level of fluoride in drinking water to 0.7 mg/L from the currently recommended range of 0.7–1.2 mg/L, and the U.S. EPA is reviewing the maximum amount of fluoride allowed in drinking water, which currently is set at 4.0 mg/L (U.S. EPA 2011).

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The exposed groups had access to drinking water with fluoride concentrations up to 11.5 mg/L (Wang SX et al. 2007)

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The estimated decrease in average IQ associated with fluoride exposure based on our analysis may seem small and may be within the measurement error of IQ testing.

FWIW, In Western Australia:

The optimal level across WA ranges from 0.6 to 0.9 milligram per litre, with a maximum of 1.0 milligram per litre established in law (the Fluoridation of Public Water Supplies Act 1966). [source]

Natural levels:

Fluoride levels in surface waters depend on geographical location and proximity to emission sources but are generally low, ranging from 0.01 to 0.3 mg/L in freshwater and from 1.2 to 1.5 mg/L in seawater. [source]

More research should be done, but I don't believe the government is "dumbing down the populous" with fluoride. We have far more important and pressing issues to worry about.

My parents refused for me to take those tablets in elementary school, I also grew up drinking strictly well water from an underground aquifer so never consumed city fluoridated water. At the time I was too young to understand it but I'm happy my parents were aware of it's dangers at the time.

A meta-analysis of 27 cross-sectional studies of children exposed to fluoride in drinking water, mainly from China, suggests an average IQ decrement of about seven points in children exposed to raised fluoride concentrations.44 Confounding from other substances seemed unlikely in most of these studies. Further characterisation of the dose–response association would be desirable.

Maybe we should stop bathing in it and drinking it and cleaning our teeth with it and handing it out as tablets to school children telling them it'll make their teeth stronger despite the well known effect of dental fluorosis.