{"id":212612,"date":"2024-02-22T14:54:38","date_gmt":"2024-02-22T18:54:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=212612"},"modified":"2024-02-22T19:22:05","modified_gmt":"2024-02-22T23:22:05","slug":"epic-lawsuit-against-toxic-water-fluoridation-reaching-clima","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=212612","title":{"rendered":"

EPIC LAWSUIT AGAINST TOXIC WATER FLUORIDATION REACHING CLIMAX<\/b><\/h2>"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A major anti-fluoride lawsuit wrapped up this week. There\u2019s nothing in the media yet, of course, but Science.org<\/a> ran a skeptical story about the lawsuit last month headlined, \u201cDoes fluoride in drinking water lower IQ? Question looms large in court battle.<\/a><\/b>\u201d<\/p>\n

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This fluoride lawsuit is the first case to get to trial under a \u2018new\u2019 2016 Toxic Substances Control Act provision that lets citizens ask courts<\/i> to assess a chemical\u2019s risk when regulatory agencies prove unreliable. So years back, the Flouride Action Network used the Act after the EPA denied its request to ban fluoridation, saying the request lacked a \u201cscientifically defensible basis.\u201d<\/p>\n

This week they finally<\/i> got to trial.<\/p>\n

The case is kind of exciting. They found a smoking gun. On top of scads of published studies, the FAN folks also unearthed an unpublished report<\/i>drafted by the federal government\u2019s own National Toxicology Program that concluded it was \u201cmoderately confident\u201d that drinking water with fluoride just slightly over federal limits was associated with lower IQs in children.<\/p>\n

Then \u2014 I realize you\u2019ll find this hard to believe \u2014 FAN found compelling evidence that CDC officials actively tried to suppress the Toxicology report\u2019s publication. Remember, an attempt to conceal something is also admissible evidence of consciousness of guilt.<\/p>\n

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The FAN folks seem pretty confident<\/a> that the real<\/i> science, as opposed to The Science\u2122,\u00a0 shows that the tooth-hardening chemical is not, in fact, safe at any level. Which, if true, would mean they\u2019ve been lying to us for a very long time for very questionable reasons. A few years ago, I wouldn\u2019t have given this story a moment\u2019s thought, I would\u2019ve thought it was just more kooky, crunchy granola, Birkenstock-wearing conspiracy theories. But now, having had my face rudely shoved into the FDA and CDCs rotten, corrupt posterior over mask and vaccine \u201cscience,\u201d nowadays it always seems safest to assume the conspiracy folks are right until the CDC proves otherwise.<\/p>\n

A couple Florida counties have outright banned fluoride, one large county as recently as just a few days ago<\/a>, which of course made liberals lose their science-loving minds. This inversion of traditional political positions is truly bizarre. Four years ago, I would\u2019ve associated attempts to ban fluoride with tree-hugging liberals<\/i>. Now \u2026 it\u2019s suddenly conservatives<\/i>. Remarkable.<\/p>\n

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The judge is now thinking about the case and all the evidence. We\u2019ll find out what happens when he enters an order.<\/p>\n

I guess \u2026 Progress?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-212612","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212612","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=212612"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212612\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=212612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=212612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=212612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}