affa @ affa @startrek.website Posts 0Comments 27Joined 1 yr. ago
Lol shut up I have two kids, a PhD and almost 20 years experience running a university research lab BEFORE my current job.
So? Did you study the effects of drinking fluoridated water?
Or do you just have faith in those who did?
but listening to the consensus of people who know more than you isn’t religion, it’s a heuristic for making better decisions.
It's just another source of information. Treating that source as absolute truth without understanding it yourself is ignorant.
Are the experts ever wrong?
Smart enough not to treat science like a religion.
What? We put fluoride in water because people can't afford toothpaste or brush their teeth? That's news to me.
So you're saying that there's no point in having fluoridated water if you have proper dental hygiene?
The thing is, copying experts does not mean you understand the subject.
Lots of people think that just because they cite someone with more credentials than them, then that person must be correct. That's not how the real world works and you'll understand it more as you get older.
If you just trust people based on their credentials, then you're treating science like a religion and shouldn't be taken seriously by rational people. You do this because it's easier than understanding the science yourself.
This means you will be taken seriously by average people since rationality is on the decline.
Can you stop replying to all my posts?
We've already established you can't read.
In fact, I'm just gonna make the proactive decision to block you. Goodbye.
The addition of fluoride (fluoridation) to drinking water that is low in fluoride or the use of fluoride toothpaste and supplements significantly reduces the risk of tooth decay.
Jeez, you really can't read, can you?
I don't expect you to be capable of making worthwhile arguments, so I'm just going to end this here.
Goodbye.
That's a loaded question because people do not suffer without fluoridated water.
Do you want to explain how they suffer without fluoridated water? That way you're talking specifics that can actually be debated upon instead of generalities where people need to make your arguments for you.
For the same reason people should “have to” resort to anything else they don’t want that everyone else is fine with.
Like lead in gasoline? The thing is, everyone else is not "fine" with this. Why do you think there's an article about it?
You shouldn't trust me just because I said something, yes.
You should understand what's being said yourself so it doesn't matter who is saying it.
Why should people have to resort to using reverse osmosis to avoid fluoride in their drinking water?
Also, good job pivoting instead of admitting you were arguing in bad faith.
I expect you to keep doing that.
they don’t indoctrinate the youth.
Sorry, I've seen too much evidence to the contrary.
There are scumbags across all walks off life, and you'll start to realize this as you get older.
Then why does unfiltered tap water suck pretty much everywhere I go?
It legit tastes like they put dirt in it, even school fountains.
Yeah.
God forbid we do something expensive if it's to improve people's health...
To be fair, there's still a ton of areas in the US with questionable drinking water.
I honestly wouldn't criticize them if they chose to drink alcohol like in the old days to avoid diseases from unsanitary water.
I mean, just look at Flint :(
What a bad faith argument.
Most people who want to avoid fluoride in their drinking water use reverse osmosis.
What are you talking about?
People get cavities all the time, and it's because they don't brush their damn teeth.
But also I think fewer and fewer people use the salt shaker because they eat so much processed food (which has salt that is not iodized).
This. I never add salt to my cooking because there's already so much salt in everything.
No, but you can ask specifically.