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You used to be able to eat leaded paint chips when I was a boy, now you can't because of woke 
We need to go back in time and massacre the entire John Birch Society. I know the time-travel assassination list is getting unmanageably long but the John Birchers need to go.
John Birch Society
If I remember correctly they peaked in the 1960s with their anti-communist nonsense conspiracy theories and general public didn't even know who they were. And anybody who did know - knew they were nuts. But now nonsense conspiracy theories are mainstream though for republicans.
My understanding is that they had a strong, strong influence on right wing thought and many of their ideas have dispersed in to wider Fash culture. They haunt us from beyond the grave, cruel specters clawing at our anti-cavity toothpaste.
I wonder if ~60 years ago the JBS toyed with the idea of antivax avant la lettre. But they decided that was too batshit even for them.
"Bring back polio!" - Mr birch society
Bring back leaded paint and all those dangerous pigments in artist paint. I want arsenic green again. Put asbestos everywhere. It's a miracle material. I'm tired of my engine knocking so we need lead in gasoline. Lead paint, leaded gas, you know what, just give us more lead. Lead is how leaders are born. It's the spice melange, it's the mojo, it's the essence of greatness. Finally, put the coke back in coke and make codeine OTC.
Shit's getting so clownish that I think there's a chance that persistent boomer politicians and maybe some Gen-X junior boomers will say that they had lead in everything and turned out fine and that the reason people are weak these days is they need the lead back.
Let arsenic return as coloring agent for candy! Why have I been denied this delicious tasty treat?
They used to have radium twinkies. Think of all the delicious spicy air they've taken from us.
I thought this was a free nation
You can still get a lot of the dangerous artist paints. I know because I have some of them lol
The fluoride in the water is the only thing holding my teeth together nooooo
Letting all my teeth fall out to own the libs.
Funnily enough Portland of all places does not fluorinate their water partly due to pressure from craft brewing and artisanal coffee roasters.
That is a Portlandia sketch and i refuse to believe it.
Fluoride in water is good. I spent a few weeks in a place without and got a cavity.
If you want a vision of the future, it's this, forever.
Trump has really been picking up all the losers this cycle
The only thing that has faltered my opposition to Kamala is the damage that this one guy might do.
Robert F. Kennedy or Trump?
Yes
RFK obviously
I've already seen conservative memes about how they removed the lead in gasoline and house paint because the lead is what protected us from their radiation (I'm assuming that's how they spread wokeism).
Guaranteed if there aren't already: there will be people who start selling lead additives so you can start mixing them into the paint and gas yourself within the next 4 years.
They're putting chemicals in the water to make my teeth gay
Anticipating a return of the Hayes Code by decade's end
It'll be chuddier somehow, like "plastic cishet fanservice is okay but any (D-word slur that nazis use to describe people too different) is forbidden." 
They're gonna require that every video game feature its protagonist in a cishet relationship with a trad wife and a ton of fanservice.
I really don't rule out an actual "comics code" for games, driven by "trad" chuds in political office, that requires shit like that.
Topically applied fluoride does not prevent tooth decay. It does render teeth detectable by spy satellite.
I was wondering why my dentist always knew my location at all times...
U could totally see republicans proposing to re-introduce lead in everything and refer to it as the "manliness metal" because all those mental issues it causes....well it just enhances your manliness!
Lead inhibits weak emotions and only allows strong ones to come out! 
Time to invest in dental stocks
I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
There is oddly not near as much research on the health impacts of fluoridated water as you would expect given the amount & time of discussion around it
(I am pro fluoridated water)
There's plenty of research among dental associations where they can basically tell whether kids in any given area had flouridated water based on the number of cavities and other tooth decay they found during checkups, demographically. There's that.
Ya your not wrong at all fluoride 100% helps with dental stuff. The point the other poster was making is that it hasn't been thoroughly studied to see if it also has other effects. Generally chemicals dont just do 1 or 2 things when you ingest it. Its a laundry list of usually mostly benign things. For all we know fluoride makes peoples toes hairier for example. But ya there is a very small chance its also doing something bad. But the fact everyone against it just seems to whine about it and never actually do any studies despite like RFK being filthy rich enough to finance one shows that they don't actually care about that and are just dumbasses that are anti-fluoride for no reason.
But we should 100% study it more theres no reason not to if were all gonna drink it constantly. It could show up with some really good info too. Like for example maybe for 99% of people fluoride in water is fine but certain people with specific conditions might want to avoid it. I mean i cant eat bread for fucks sake. You never know if theres some group of people out there that its actually harming until you study it. So yeah basically just because people like RFK are idiots and have no idea what theyre talking about doesnt mean that there is no merit in studying the effects of fluoridated water further. Honestly there is merit in studying just about everything further. More information is never a bad thing especially when it comes to health issues.
(I am also pro fluoridated water)
I agree with you and the other poster that there may be unknown additional side effects, even at the relatively low levels that are used to protect teeth, especially children's teeth, from cavities and toothy decay.
It's unfortunate that that line of inquiry has more often than not been bad-faith reactionary chud shit, like antivax movements are and with similar overlap. Some vaccines do have known side effects, but it's messy to even talk about it because of the chud factor.
Yeah thats the thing about anti-science behavior not only is it harmful directly but it has indirect effects of making it harder to actually approach things from a proper scientific perspective. Since we should honestly be skeptical of everything, but "skepticism" has been high jacked by these reactionary assholes who use the word to mean "i just dont believe anything scientists say"
More often than not "debunked" tends to mean "no, I don't like that and I found a Youtuber that agrees with me," and that sucks.
Yes but there's pretty much only the dental stuff.
I agree with you that there may be unknown additional side effects, even at the relatively low levels that are used to protect teeth, especially children's teeth, from cavities and toothy decay.
It's unfortunate that that line of inquiry has more often than not been bad-faith reactionary chud shit, like antivax movements are and with similar overlap. Some vaccines do have known side effects, but it's messy to even talk about it because of the chud factor.
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