Water utility announces it’s ditching fluoride—then reveals it did so years ago

The water utility highlighted unsubstantiated health concerns.

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[SeanJW]

I call foul on the "no background in ..." sentence. He absolutely has a background - he's been a patient for brain damage, and a charlatan causing health scares that cost lives the world over. What he has is no expertise. And less brain matter than you'd expect a typical human being. They may or may not be related.

 

[SeanJW]

Dental health in locations that do fluoridate their water versus those that don't are pretty stark. I'm sure it's a boon for business for dentists in the latter.

Less than you think. Dental care is always the last thing on the list when the money isn't there and teeth get cheaply extracted rather than expensive support.

 

[SeanJW]

Good Christians should accept nothing less than crucifixion.

If it's the Right Way for Jesus to bring Redemption...

Humble Christians will ask for a Petrine cross. The inverted crucifix is the symbol of the pope after all.

 

[SeanJW]

Primaries are a thing.

"Get out and vote!"

No. That's literally the last thing you do as a responsible citizen. Get out there and find (or become) a reasonable candidate. Support that candidate. Let people know. Donate. Volunteer. Raise awareness.

You only vote at the end of the race, it starts long before then.

Edit: Not you specifically, but making the point that the ham-fisted "vote!" is literally the lamest and literally last answer.

Edit 2: If voting was the answer, campaigns would cost nothing and last a week, and there'd be a non-party "register to vote" campaign maybe a week or two before that closes to make sure people update their details.

 

[SeanJW]

Depending on the aquifer, some well water has sufficient levels of fluoride naturally, some doesn't. At one remote site where I worked for many years, the well water that we used daily was actually over-blessed with fluoride, and we were forced to bring in water from an outside source for drinking. My own rural residential well is down-gradient from that particular site, and while it's not over the limit, we do have abundant natural fluoride in it. Some of us rural poors get lucky.

I vaguely recall there's a city out there where the drinking water has elevated (but safe) levels of lithium (used for treating bipolar amongst other things), and their crime rate is statistically lower.

Sometimes water supply is just lucky. Pure doesn't always mean perfect.

Edit: There we go, found literature on it.

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7576670/

Not that I'm a SME, so I won't comment on the accuracy - there may be plenty of countervailing results that I'm not equipped to discover. But it's been researched.

Edit 2: Apparently happens a lot in Texas as well as Japan. Couldn't think of a better place to drug the water supply to make the residents more docile (may as well use the paranoid dipshit description of it, because I'm damned sure some lunatic on the internet would anyway)

 

[SeanJW]

On election day, voting is the first thing you do as a responsible citizen.

On election day, yes. But if you've waited until election day to take positive action, you're too late.

 

[SeanJW]

This sounds like some weird, localized marketing backwash - especially given that so much bottle water is, in fact, just tap water. But in a bottle.

I'm not on the west coast, but I drink tap water all the time and never buy bottled water except sometimes for road trips. If I want, I can pull up quarterly reports on water testing for my area, there are no problems with it, when local issues arise they are all over the news and get resolved quickly.

Bottled water typically is just tap water - where the tap water meets reasonable standards. Not all water supplies are reliable as Flint found out the hard way.

Edit: And the bottled water companies don't set up excessive filtering usually. They just bottle it in huge quantities where the government has already done the work and ship it whereever. Why duplicate labour?

 

[SeanJW]

Always find it an amusing tale that coke charged more for the water from its bottling plants without any burnt sugar added to it
than they did for the cola

Most of the cost is in the packaging and shipping I think. It's far cheaper to buy in bulk.

Edit: Damned supermarkets not selling it at pumps....