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Ryan Marino, MD (@ryanmarino.bsky.social):
Toxicologist here for any fluoride concerns! The amount of fluoride added to water to prevent tooth decay is so minuscule that—no matter your age, size, or health status—you would die from water poisoning long before you could ever even start getting toxicity from fluoride. Fluoridated water is safe
Rachel Maria (@radiantrachel.bsky.social):
I still don't understand why we're ingesting it. It's always bothered me. Also, isn't there evidence linking it to bone cancer in black boys? Just checking.
Either way, removing it is definitely a sign of major divergment from normal.
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
We have fluoride in tap water because of studies done showing a massive reduction in caries (cavities) in kids & adults in areas where the groundwater naturally had fluoride. And since then, studies that show that i.e. fluoridated toothpaste dramatically drops cavities.
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
The studies that show a heightened correlation to bone cancer, etc are simply correlations- they aren't showing causation.
There are studies that show a correlation between consuming apples and higher incidence of cancer. It's not the apples causing the cancer.
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
RFK Jr. & cohort don't understand (or don't care) about the difference between correlation vs causation. They cherry-pick studies that report things that sound scary, to drive their preferred narrative.
Paula who is persisting (@paula2168.bsky.social):
I doubt he did a meta analysis of studies to confidently and reliably say what causes what ever health issues he is trying to discern and generate policy on.
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Rachel Maria (@radiantrachel.bsky.social):
But there's warnings to not ingest the toothpaste. I get the cavity thing, but why swallow it? Just convenience?
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
The reason you don't swallow the toothpaste is that chronic overconsumption (two orders of magnitude greater concentrations of fluoride than is recommended, over months) can stain developing teeth in children. My first spouse had fluoride stained teeth.
Rachel Maria (@radiantrachel.bsky.social):
Yes, my dad knew a bunch of kids in Texas with flourosis in the 50's and 60's from an over flouridated water supply (naturally occurring). I see it in my students sometimes (special population), probably swallowing their toothpaste.
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Lizzie Sea (@clangersrule.bsky.social):
This is one of my favourites when discussing correlation/causation.
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
An r value most would break open the champagne to celebrate
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Mya Riemer (@myariemer.bsky.social):
why were beds getting so much more dangerous? And did we figure it out and are they safer now? Or have we just been getting progressively worse at sleeping, because that feels like it tracks. This is really going to bother me now.
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
The secret is this:
The rate of bedsheet tanglings did not increase per bedsheet. They increased per capita, as a result of wider adoption of bedsheets and/or an adjustment to reporting of cause of death (perhaps bedsheet tangle deaths were previously classed as, say, Death by Misadventure)
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