Major health groups support water fluoridation as a public health benefit and emphasize that the practice is safe.

Summary

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced that a Trump administration would prioritize removing fluoride from public water systems, a position at odds with major health organizations like the CDC, the American Dental Association, and the American Academy of Pediatrics, all of which endorse water fluoridation as safe and beneficial for dental health.

Despite Kennedy’s controversial stance on health and environmental issues, which includes previously debunked claims linking vaccines to autism, Trump has praised his passion, stating that Kennedy would have significant freedom to influence health policy if Trump were elected.

  • leftzero@lemmynsfw.com
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    Brigadier General Jack D. Ripper:

    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.

    (…)

    [through his cigar] Mandrake,

    Group Captain Lionel Mandrake:

    Yes, Jack?

    Ripper:

    Have you ever seen a commie drink a glass of water?

    Mandrake:

    Well, no I… I can’t say I have, Jack.

    Ripper:

    Vodka. That’s what they drink, isn’t it? Never water?

    Mandrake:

    Well I… I believe that’s what they drink, Jack. Yes.

    Ripper:

    On no account will a commie ever drink water, and not without good reason.

    Mandrake:

    Oh, ah, yes. I don’t quite… see what you’re getting at, Jack.

    Ripper:

    Water. That’s what I’m getting at. Water. Mandrake, water is the source of all life. Seven tenths of this earth’s surface is water. Why, you realize that… seventy percent of you is water.

    Mandrake:

    Uhhh God…

    Ripper:

    And as human beings, you and I need fresh, pure water to replenish our precious bodily fluids.

    Mandrake:

    Yes. [chuckles nervously]

    Ripper:

    You beginning to understand?

    Mandrake:

    Yes. [chuckles, begins laughing/crying quietly]

    Ripper:

    Mandrake. Mandrake, have you never wondered why I drink only distilled water, or rain water, and only pure grain alcohol?

    Mandrake:

    Well it did occur to me, Jack, yes.

    Ripper:

    Have you ever heard of a thing called fluoridation? Fluoridation of water?

    Mandrake:

    Ah, yes, I have heard of that, Jack. Yes.

    Ripper:

    Well do you now what it is?

    Mandrake:

    No. No, I don’t know what it is. No.

    Ripper:

    Do you realize that fluoridation is the most monstrously conceived and dangerous communist plot we have ever had to face?

    (…)

    Mandrake, do you realize that in addition to fluoridated water, why, there are studies underway to fluoridate salt, flour, fruit juices, soup, sugar, milk, ice cream? Ice cream, Mandrake. Children’s ice cream?

    Mandrake:

    Good Lord.

    Ripper:

    You know when fluoridation first began?

    Mandrake:

    No. No, I don’t, Jack. No.

    Ripper:

    Nineteen hundred and forty six. Nineteen fortysix, Mandrake. How does that coincide with your postwar commie conspiracy, huh? It’s incredibly obvious, isn’t it? A foreign substance is introduced into our precious bodily fluids without the knowledge of the individual, and certainly without any choice. That’s the way your hard core commie works.

    Mandrake:

    Jack… Jack, listen, tell me, ah… when did you first become, well, develop this theory.

    Ripper:

    Well, I ah, I I first became aware of it, Mandrake, during the physical act of love.

    Mandrake:

    [sighs fearfully]

    Ripper:

    Yes a profound sense of fatigue, a feeling of emptiness followed. Luckily I was able to interpret these feelings correctly: loss of essence.

    Mandrake:

    Yes…

    Ripper:

    I can assure you it has not recurred, Mandrake. Women… women sense my power, and they seek the life essence. I do not avoid women, Mandrake, but I do deny them my essence.