July 29, 2025, 6:52 a.m.

Trouble Waters: The Fight Over Fluoridation

The Conspiracy Report

Is the addition of fluoride to our water sources is a benefit to our health, or a detriment? This fight is over eighty years old, and in the middle of the twentieth century, it was not only a battle over health issues, but to some, a political struggle…

By Egon E. Mosum

Humanity has become rather addicted to water. But unlike many other addictions, it is a necessity. 

To try to conquer this addiction and go ‘cold turkey’ for more than a few days, will have a decided impact on our life.

It will end it.

But water, is a mixed blessing, depending upon where we obtain it and what we do to it when we obtain it. If consumed from the wrong source, it can make us ill—or worse. If improperly treated, it can do the same.

However, what is and what isn’t proper and healthful treatment of the water we must have has long been a source of debate, and part of that debate has been whether or not the addition of fluoride to our water sources is a benefit to our health, or a detriment.

This fight is over eighty years old, and in the middle of the twentieth century, it was not only a battle over health issues, but to some, a political struggle.


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There were those who thought adding fluoride to water was a communist plot. (That theory didn’t hold water).

In earlier times, it was the John Birch Society and the Ku Klux Klan that opposed fluoridation. Today we have Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as the champion of the movement against fluoride in our water.[1]

It appears that the more things change, the more they stay the same, so let’s take a ‘sip’ of the current controversy.

Now scientific consensus is that fluoride has benefits, including a reduction in tooth decay. But science also recognizes that we can have too much of a supposedly good thing, and that an over concentration of fluoride in our drinking water can lead to some negative health consequences—nausea, vomiting, diarrhea.[2]

So, there is a sort of Jekyll and Hyde nature to fluoridation.

Yes, it can reduce tooth decay, but it can also be used as a rat poison. (One wonders if it can reduce tooth decay in rats, but that is a subject for another article).

Fluoride is also used ‘to enrich uranium for nuclear weapons, or to prepare Sarin nerve gas, or to isolate aluminum from its ore.’[3]

But, like many other substances, it is a matter of degree, a matter of concentration, and the recommended (and used) parts per million of fluoride in our drinking water will not turn us into dead rats, nuclear weapons, or nerve gas.

The anti-fluoride fear-mongering fanatics claim that fluoride can cause cancer. However, ‘extensive epidemiological investigations in fluoridated and non-fluoridated communities have shown no difference in cancer rates.’[4]

Now, while politics makes strange bedfellows, in the case of water fluoridation, it appears that there’s little chance of a between-the-sheets relationship happening between science and politics. 

In fact, recently, the United States has seen some jurisdictions outlawing the addition of fluoride to water.

In Utah, for example, (according to a 2025 CBS news report), ‘Utah Gov. Spencer J. Cox, a Republican, signed a bill into law on Thursday, March 27, making the state the first in the U.S. to ban fluoride in public water systems. The law prohibits any person or government entity from adding the mineral to the state's water systems.’[5]

So, what happens when you nix the fluoride in water? ‘In Juneau, Alaska, and Alberta, Canada, when they removed that fluoride, the rates of cavities increased dramatically in the children of those populations.’[6]

However, when we rise above the dental concerns and go to potential mental concerns, a January 2025 article in the Journal of the American Medical Association Pediatrics publication, determined that there was a relationship between high concentrations of fluoride and lower IQ.[7]

When considering that, it is important to realize that fluoride is not just found in water systems, but in food and beverages too.[8]

Due to these concerns, the State Surgeon General of Florida, in November of 2024, recommended ‘against community water fluoridation due to the neuropsychiatric risk associated with fluoride exposure.’[9]

But it’s not just in the United States that the use of fluoride in water has been challenged, and in some cases proscribed. Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, Norway, and Sweden’ have eliminated water fluoridation.[10]

The aforementioned risk of lowered IQ was addressed by a Federal District Court Judge from the Northern District of California in September, 2024, when he (Justice Chen) wrote:

‘Given the seriousness of reduced IQ, and the ample support in the record that the United States population is at risk of experiencing IQ decrements of over four IQ points, the severity of the hazard at issue weights in favor of finding the risk at issue unreasonable.’[11]

As a result of that decision, ‘the Environmental Protection Agency is now compelled to respond through regulatory action such as banning fluoridation or simply requiring a warning label on fluoridated water; however, the specific regulatory action is left to the EPA’s discretion.’[12]

WHY YOU SHOULD CARE

When it comes to our health, we are likely to be better off consulting responsible scientists than unqualified politicians. However, there are times when science can buttress political arguments.

We have witnessed a long history of the fluoride in water controversy, ranging from communist plots, to cancer, to lowered intelligence in our children. (For the latter, one might also wish to examine our current standards of education, or lack thereof).

In this particular issue, it is more than unqualified politicians who have rallied against fluoride in our drinking water. There have been studies which show a potential risk to health when there are larger concentrations of fluoride in our water.

In our United States, and in other developed countries in the West, there seems to be a movement away from the generally accepted addition of fluoride in water.

Besides being based on political considerations, and scientific studies, it acknowledges better dental hygiene and the addition of fluoride in toothpaste, has reduced the need for fluoride in drinking water.

Our society makes decisions regarding health issues based on studies which can change in their results over time. One need only look at the constant barrage of nutritional advice we are subjected to, when one day coffee is evil, and the next day it has anti-carcinogenic benefits.

When one day grains are on the top of the government food pyramid, and after subsequent scientific studies, products from dough are a no-go.

We, in the United States, will probably face neither heaven nor hell depending upon whether or not our water is fluoridated. However, what is a concern is the potential danger of politics trumping science, or on the other hand, science changing its opinion, and our legislators not getting the memo on time.

If fluoride can reduce intelligence, we can effectively deal with that by removing it from what we consume. If politics can do the same, we have to be more careful of the contents of our Congress, and remove the harmful elements. 


Sources:

[1] OPPOSITION TO WATER FLOURIDATION Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opposition_to_water_fluoridation

[2] IBID

[3] THE FLUROIDE CONTROVERSY McGill University Office for Science and Society. Schwarcz, 11/27/24 https://www.mcgill.ca/oss/article/medical-critical-thinking-history/fluoride-controversy

[4] IBID.

[5] WHAT TO KNOW ABOUT FLUORIDE IN WATER FOLLOWING UTAH BAN Moniuszko, 3/28/25 CBS NEWS https://www.cbsnews.com/news/fluoride-in-water-health/

[6] IBID.

[7] FLUORIDE EXPOSURE AND CHILDREN’S IQ SCORES JAMA PEDIATRICS Taylor, et. al. 1/6/25 https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamapediatrics/fullarticle/2828425?guestAccessKey=f61d2921-6a2b-436a-8710-c9623f148bdf#google_vignette

[8] IBID.

[9] State Surgeon General Dr. Joseph A. Ladapo Issues Community Water Fluoridation Guidance 11/22/24 Florida Health Department https://www.floridahealth.gov/newsroom/2024/11/20241122-fluoridation-guidance.pr.html

[10] IBID.

[11] Judge orders EPA to address impacts of fluoride in drinking water Anderson, 9/26/24 ADA NEWS https://adanews.ada.org/ada-news/2024/september/judge-orders-epa-to-address-impacts-of-fluoride-in-drinking-water/

[12] Possible Consequences of Court Ruling on Safety of Water Fluoridation Lilian White MD 10/21/24 American Family Physician Community Blog https://www.aafp.org/pubs/afp/afp-community-blog/entry/possible-consequences-of-court-ruling-on-safety-of-water-fluoridation.html



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