Dentists are struggling to counter RFK Jr. on fluoride. Red states are banning the tooth-protecting mineral, while blue state skeptics aren't budging.
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Why do you call them blue state 'skeptics'? It's the red states that are skeptical of science.
jul 10, 2025, 5:49 pm • 2 0 • view
Is fluoride about to be added to the controlled substance list? Sheesh
jul 10, 2025, 5:24 pm • 1 0 • view
do you think some of the difficulty might because people like you keep acting as though what RFK Jr has to say is reasonable
jul 10, 2025, 5:22 pm • 6 0 • view
And what role might you be playing in that?
jul 10, 2025, 5:07 pm • 29 0 • view
MAGA IS HATE.
jul 10, 2025, 5:26 pm • 1 0 • view
What the fuck is this framing? How about RFK is a fucking crank. Don’t listen to anything he says.
jul 10, 2025, 10:15 pm • 0 0 • view
Why would you call policymakers who continue to accept the scientific consensus “skeptics”?
jul 10, 2025, 5:13 pm • 14 0 • view
It’s scientific fact that fluoride in water significantly lowers incidence of tooth decay, and poor oral health leads to greater health problems that have major financial costs. Stop the he said-she said way of reporting on this.
jul 10, 2025, 5:15 pm • 12 0 • view
Fucking pos tabloid POLITICO.
jul 10, 2025, 5:20 pm • 1 0 • view
ANYONE who listens to this crackpot death cult leader is doomed. RFKjr. should be ousted.
jul 10, 2025, 5:17 pm • 6 0 • view
My dentist said our state is not wavering on fluoride.
jul 10, 2025, 5:16 pm • 3 0 • view
It’s difficult to counter a guy’s argument when he refuses to accept facts.
jul 10, 2025, 10:24 pm • 0 0 • view
I know your owner's stated goal of this outlet is to further the agenda of the Trump administration but I feel like it would work a lot better if you were at least nuanced about it.
jul 10, 2025, 5:09 pm • 14 0 • view
You’ve got it flipped, we’re not skeptics.
jul 10, 2025, 5:18 pm • 7 0 • view
Thankful to live in a blue state. RFK, JR is an imbecile.
jul 10, 2025, 8:58 pm • 0 0 • view
You'd think this would be a bonanza for dentists, but my dentist cares about my dental health, not filling cavities. The end-stage options, such as implants, are expensive and not covered by insurance. We'll be back to the 1930s with toothless old people.
jul 10, 2025, 7:52 pm • 0 0 • view
This is not a battle. RFK Jr. is wrong, the medical research shows he is wrong. The Blue states aren't skeptics they just aren't stupid.
jul 10, 2025, 6:41 pm • 1 0 • view
Calgary Canada just brought back floride after 10 years due to the amount if cavities children are getting. Additionally, floride reduces corrosion, and removing it caused huge expenses of city water pipes failing prematurely.
jul 11, 2025, 3:35 am • 4 0 • view
I'm so lucky to be in a blue state.
jul 10, 2025, 11:05 pm • 0 0 • view
...surely the proliferation of private equity in the dental industry has nothing to do with this. Nah, couldn't be.
jul 10, 2025, 5:19 pm • 0 0 • view
jul 11, 2025, 1:38 am • 0 0 • view
“I’d vote for Trump again in a heartbeat!” Maybe RFK is right about the fluoride. Maybe it does affect the brain.
jul 10, 2025, 5:47 pm • 0 0 • view
Republicans can lose their teeth. Many do so anyways cuz of their meth addiction. I really couldn’t care less.
jul 10, 2025, 6:03 pm • 0 0 • view
What the fuck does “struggling to counter” mean you morons?
jul 10, 2025, 5:36 pm • 4 0 • view
The dumbest timeline ever. #GOPDeathCult #kakistocracy Save Science
jul 10, 2025, 7:45 pm • 2 1 • view
jul 10, 2025, 8:27 pm • 1 0 • view
Hope all their teeth fall out
jul 11, 2025, 11:17 pm • 0 0 • view
You absolute mouth breathing morons… hey @politico.com - dentists and medical personnel are having NO trouble countering him. It’s just that millions of Americans don’t care about facts anymore. And apparently neither do you all. This is the most pathetic framing of a clear cut issue I’ve ever seen.
jul 10, 2025, 5:48 pm • 1 0 • view
Pathetic article from a pathetic site
jul 10, 2025, 5:16 pm • 5 0 • view
Does @dannyn516.bsky.social get paid more to launder anti-science by claiming "blue state skeptics" are the only ones worried here or what? Trash journalism.
jul 10, 2025, 5:21 pm • 7 1 • view
jul 10, 2025, 5:41 pm • 0 0 • view
Skeptics of what? That water fluoridization is one of the great accomplishments of American public health and that rolling it back is bad?
jul 10, 2025, 5:09 pm • 38 1 • view
The quality of life trends are consistent.
jul 10, 2025, 10:41 pm • 4 0 • view
Medical consensus is not “skeptic[ism]”
jul 10, 2025, 5:57 pm • 1 0 • view
This total train wreck is now being sued by the American Pediatrics Association, the American College of Physicians and the American Public Health Association to name the first 3…putting lives in danger and wasting everyone’s time and millions of dollars…get him out now!!!!! 🙏🏼🇺🇸💙💪🏾🌈
jul 10, 2025, 6:09 pm • 0 0 • view
Damn it's crazy that there's just know way to know who is correct about this, people who've dedicated their lives to the science around teeth or some guy who picks up and eats roadkill he found while driving
jul 10, 2025, 5:09 pm • 82 0 • view
He was a heroin addict for like 18 years or something that's enough to discredit anything he says hell he even said no one should listen to him. The Kennedy's used to keep their mutants in the Attic. 🤷
jul 10, 2025, 8:25 pm • 3 0 • view
I'm sorry but as someone who has an autistic sister go fuck yourself for calling someone with mental disabilities a mutant
jul 10, 2025, 8:27 pm • 7 0 • view
Not for nothing, medical professionals can and do get addicted to drugs as well. Real shitty take in multiple directions.
jul 11, 2025, 3:55 am • 1 0 • view
To this freak everything good for one's health is bad, particularly picking on children.
jul 10, 2025, 5:42 pm • 0 0 • view
Skeptics?
jul 10, 2025, 8:19 pm • 0 0 • view
Like Red state people don’t have enough problems with their teeth.
jul 11, 2025, 4:47 am • 0 0 • view
And WTF happened to you folks? Why the lean to the Right when it is obvious that they are consistently wrong on the facts? Was Politico threatened by this regime?
jul 11, 2025, 4:53 am • 0 0 • view
some of these people are correct. some of them are incorrect. real journalism tells us which is which. by the way, the correct answer is that fluoride is good.
jul 10, 2025, 5:14 pm • 10 0 • view
Said it here before - tooth decay contributes to heart disease and other chronic diseases. Ironic but not unexpected that his approaches lead to more chronic diseases not less.
jul 10, 2025, 5:09 pm • 9 0 • view
There may be something to that too many teeth thing in the south.
jul 10, 2025, 10:14 pm • 0 0 • view
When your audience can't tell the difference between bullshit and facts, you're in trouble. When your audience prefers the bullshit to the facts, you're in deep trouble. When you present the bullshit and the facts as equally worthy of consideration, you're lost.
jul 10, 2025, 5:47 pm • 2 0 • view
Why don’t you take this bullshit and shove it up all your collected asses?
jul 10, 2025, 5:09 pm • 9 0 • view
Politico is trash.
jul 10, 2025, 6:30 pm • 0 0 • view
Your organization deserves to be burned to the ground with RFK jr inside
jul 10, 2025, 5:11 pm • 13 0 • view
Toothless Rednecks, who would've guessed?
jul 10, 2025, 9:48 pm • 0 0 • view
But, how can professional dentists know more than a heroin-addicted idiot? (Snark)
jul 11, 2025, 2:25 pm • 0 0 • view
Get ready for tooth decay. Many red states already have fluoridated water due to wells drilled in areas where natural fluoride exists. Hmmmm.
jul 10, 2025, 5:46 pm • 0 0 • view
This is a direct result of years of cutting education spending. The number of folks just incapable of thinking for themselves has become a danger to the rest of the world
jul 10, 2025, 5:40 pm • 0 0 • view
We need to vote against any legislator who voted for Kennedy
jul 11, 2025, 12:53 am • 1 0 • view
This shit is Springer as we know it: "Sceptics"
jul 11, 2025, 9:11 am • 0 0 • view
This BS earns you idiots a block. The word you are looking for is SCIENTISTS. Skeptics… i swear, this is the dumbest goddamn timeline
jul 11, 2025, 12:23 am • 0 0 • view
Oooh, good idea to bicker about dental health when so many kids are going to die from preventable - and even eradicated - diseases.
jul 10, 2025, 8:00 pm • 0 0 • view
Red state crackpots
jul 10, 2025, 5:21 pm • 2 0 • view
Republican dentists are all for it. Job security. They will raise their rates.
jul 11, 2025, 8:43 pm • 0 0 • view
Why are dentists struggling?
jul 10, 2025, 5:05 pm • 3 0 • view
how do you convince a fox news grandpa that his childrens' children are not at risk of mind control or whatever
jul 10, 2025, 5:15 pm • 0 0 • view
Grandpa Fox News' grandkids' minds will be controlled by Grandpa Fox.
jul 10, 2025, 5:56 pm • 0 0 • view
Well he thinks so but his daughter is a centrist lib and her husband is a socialist and they would prefer flouride stays available
jul 10, 2025, 6:41 pm • 0 0 • view
Idk what else there is but fluoride in the water helps keeps people's teeth healthier when they can't afford the dentist. Stopping this degrades their teeth faster which they end up at the dentist to get invasive work done or just teeth just pulled out cause that's the easiest thing to do.
jul 10, 2025, 5:19 pm • 1 0 • view
Why is that so hard for dentists (who are the actual experts) to say?
jul 10, 2025, 5:57 pm • 0 0 • view
Taking away something that's been proven to help will only hurt people.
jul 10, 2025, 6:08 pm • 0 0 • view
Barry Taylor, the executive director of the Oregon Dental Association. The American Dental Association’ Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, an agency within HHS, has held out fluoridation as one of the 10 greatest public health achievements That's all in the article.
jul 10, 2025, 6:07 pm • 0 0 • view
Probably because they fix teeth, not stupidity.
jul 10, 2025, 5:11 pm • 13 0 • view
I know, it's hard to fix stupid.
jul 10, 2025, 5:58 pm • 1 0 • view
Embarrassing post.
jul 10, 2025, 6:14 pm • 1 0 • view
RFK is an embarrassment .. that is all
jul 10, 2025, 6:17 pm • 0 0 • view
The change of opinion about RFK Jr by MAGA needs to be studied. First he was brainworm guy. Now he’s a genius. Most Dems didn’t like RFK, which is why he dropped and joined MAGA.
jul 10, 2025, 10:02 pm • 1 0 • view
People who agree with the long-standing scientific evidence on the efficacy of fluoride are NOT skeptics.
jul 10, 2025, 5:21 pm • 2 0 • view
This is not journalism this is cowardly propaganda.
jul 10, 2025, 5:30 pm • 0 0 • view
"Blue state skepticism" is when you actually know what you're talking about and aren't a visibly rotting nepo-loonie spreading conspiratorial medical insanity from the capitol
jul 10, 2025, 5:28 pm • 0 0 • view
Red State Dentistry. There’s an oxymoron.
jul 10, 2025, 5:08 pm • 15 0 • view
There’s not really red, blue, or purple states, just Republican controlled, Democrat controlled, or mixed. Referring to a state by color serves to infer that all citizens in a state are onside with their current government. Especially when so many don’t bother to vote at all.
jul 10, 2025, 6:53 pm • 1 0 • view
Bothsidesico
jul 10, 2025, 5:20 pm • 1 0 • view
Dentists are about to make more money due to tooth decay if fluoride is no longer present in our water. Must really be a struggle for them.
jul 10, 2025, 5:49 pm • 0 0 • view