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>it is beyond my power of understanding how this could be mandated by law in USA Consider that fluoride ingestion has been linked with increased anxiety and de
by elif 3y ago
>it is beyond my power of understanding how this could be mandated by law in USA
Consider that fluoride ingestion has been linked with increased anxiety and depression[*]. Depending upon one's political objectives, this could be a desirable outcome. For instance, the "anti-terror" decades of invasion would be easier to accept for an anxious public. Or depression may lead to more consumer activity.
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/258252498_Fluoride_exposure_during_development_affects_both_cognition_and_emotion_in_mice https://www.researchgate.net/publication/258252498_Fluoride_...
- drewcon 3y agoOr, hear me out, watching terrorists kamikaze a few commercial airliners into a couple of buildings in downtown Manhattan and the Pentagon live on TV was actually kind of a nerve racking on its own irrespective of what the dissolved minerals in our tap water might have told us.
- elif 3y agoYet we didn't question the non-involvement of the 7 nations we invaded, nor question the lack of invasion of the responsible nation. Society comforted themselves with the official narrative while branding whistleblowers conspiracy theorists.
- elif 3y agoAlso calling it a "dissolved mineral" is pointlessly euphemistic. Fluoride is sold as a poison. You may as well call the following "dissolved minerals": lead, arsenic, uranium, mercury, asbestos
- hgsgm 3y agoTable salt kills slugs.
- kodah 3y agoAt the time Republicans reported much better mental health than Democrats [1]. iirc, this study was reproduced with children as well (in terms of kids raised under a political ideology). Moreover, as someone else pointed out, watching commercial airliners fly into skyscrapers and having our world upended with military guards at airports and new governmental snooping powers that we just had to accept is all pretty much enough for the things you mentioned. 1: https://news.gallup.com/poll/102943/republicans-report-much-better-mental-health-than-others.aspx https://news.gallup.com/poll/102943/republicans-report-much-...