• anarchoilluminati [comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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    16 hours ago

    I can no longer sit back and allow Communist infiltration, Communist indoctrination, Communist subversion and the international Communist conspiracy to sap and impurify all of our precious bodily fluids.

    strangelove

  • SkingradGuard [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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    Oh my fucking god

    This is going to spread to every major news outlet isn’t it? We’re so fucking doomed, this is how scientific advancement is stopped, peasant brained bullshit like this. I’m so out.

    • InevitableSwing [none/use name]@hexbear.netOP
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      I guess the most important media outlets (press and tv) in the US are months away from mainstreaming race science material that is openly just asking questions and there will be repulsive “questioning” if immigration hurts IQ. And when there’s a massive outcry - the outlets non-apology apologies will be them doubling down and saying the content of the broadcasts and the text of the articles was opinion. And then there will be more race science and at that point there won’t even be non-apology apologies.

  • Sulvor [he/him, undecided]@hexbear.net
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    21 hours ago

    however, the association was null at less than 1.5 mg/L.

    The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services recommends a level of 0.7 milligrams per Liter (mg/L) of fluoride in your drinking water.

    I’m sick of these idiots.

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    Linda Birnbaum, former director of the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, called for more research into the potential effects of fluoride levels below 1.5 parts per million.

    She emphasized that the study had concluded that exposure can be damaging to developing brains. “The answer is pretty clear: yes,” Dr. Birnbaum said.

    It did not.

    To protect fetuses and babies who are especially vulnerable, she advised parents to avoid drinking fluoridated water during pregnancy and to use fluoride-free bottled water when preparing formula for their infants.

    Parents, simply don’t be exposed to pollution. It’s easy. Don’t worry about the microplastics.

    “The more we study a lot of chemicals, especially the chemicals that affect I.Q., like lead — there’s really no safe level,” Dr. Birnbaum said.

    It’s so irresponsible to associate fluoride with lead. This is like people being obsessed with seed oils while ignoring massive amounts of sugar in their diets.

    • Saeculum [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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      There also is clearly a safe level because people survived decades of it being pumped into the air and came out relatively fine.

      Maybe there’s no level that won’t impact your health to some degree, but minute impacts aren’t worth considering.

  • FnordPrefect [comrade/them, he/him]@hexbear.net
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    To protect fetuses and babies who are especially vulnerable, she advised parents to avoid drinking fluoridated water during pregnancy and to use fluoride-free bottled water when preparing formula for their infants.

    microplastics-cool


    shinji-screm

    • SkingradGuard [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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      It is but it doesn’t matter. It’s the message that this kind of thinking in headlines sends out (regardless of any refutation in the text). It’s basically giving free reign to quackery as mainstream thought.

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      19 hours ago

      Regardless if IQ tests actually measure intelligence, using them to compare 2 people raised on different continents, in different cultures, who speak different languages, were part of different education systems, took different tests, and were tested under different conditions is not gonna tell you anything.

  • InevitableSwing [none/use name]@hexbear.netOP
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    21 hours ago

    I look forward to a toxic cycle where RFK Jr. or other Trump-related turds…

    1. Gets Trump to help them push their total nonsense pet theory on science or medicine that might even be a literal conspiracy theory. At this point MSNBC makes fun of the nonsense.

    2. After enough “questions” have arisen - the GOP sticks funding for a study on X in a big bill that the dems say “has to pass”. Both sides-ing begins. The dems end up looking like they too want the study done no matter how much they say they don’t.

    3. The study might debunk the fucking nonsense. But that doesn’t matter at all. Whatever the study actually says - the turd insists they were right all along. Other turds in Trump world agree.

    4. Right-wing media pushes the fucking nonsense because Trump likes it.

    5. The totality of the media actually debates the fucking nonsense. At this point MSNBC has on experts to debate the fucking nonsense.

    6. The nonsense has been mainstreamed.

    7. The public is confused. Is fluoride good in the water? Or does it make kids dumb? Maybe we shouldn’t put it in the water!

    Repeat for the next total nonsense pet theory. Trump might get in on the action for his own bullshit ideas.

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    Nobody reads articles anymore. Headlines are all that matter. This week or even today RFK Jr. or Trump or any other repulsive clown in Trump’s inner circle could incorrectly say “high fluoride lowers kid IQ” and then there will be debates on it.

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    “High”? What was I thinking. Why include that sciencey word? They could simply say “fluoride lowers kid IQ”.