[HN Gopher] Florida Just Banned Fluoride from Public Water
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       Florida Just Banned Fluoride from Public Water
        
       Author : ripe
       Score  : 6 points
       Date   : 2025-05-15 21:48 UTC (1 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (www.nytimes.com)
 (TXT) w3m dump (www.nytimes.com)
        
       | gnabgib wrote:
       | Discussion (43 points, 15 days ago, 117 comments)
       | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43843547
        
       | techpineapple wrote:
       | Not sure what to think about this, but often (as in the linked
       | discussion) it always starts out with the very fair "everyone
       | should get to choose, you can use supplements", and then they
       | start banning supplements:
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       | https://www.cnn.com/2025/05/13/health/fluoride-supplement-ba...
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       | Which makes me just feel like these debates are always hard to
       | have anymore because you never know what debate you're having.
        
         | BLKNSLVR wrote:
         | What they need to do is gather statistics on dental health. It
         | could take a decade or two, and ideally they've been recording
         | the statistics for a good decade beforehand, for comparison.
         | 
         | But I doubt those making the rules care much for actual data,
         | and only care about the result that makes them feel better
         | about themselves.
        
         | add-sub-mul-div wrote:
         | It sounds like you do know what to think, that they don't argue
         | in good faith. Not everything is more complicated than it
         | looks.
        
       | mattgrice wrote:
       | Sure this is bad but what about states where they don't have
       | universal free dental care with bi-yearly topical fluoride?
        
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