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 If Trump wins and RFK Jr. is appointed Secretary of Health, suddenly, basic health issues will become politized. 

Point in case: fluoride in water. CNN, NPR and others are already calling it crazy even though the US Department of Health and Human Services says the following:

"This review finds, with moderate confidence, that higher estimated fluoride exposures (e.g., as in approximations of exposure such as drinking water fluoride concentrations that exceed the World Health Organization Guidelines for Drinking-water Quality of 1.5 mg/L of fluoride) are consistently associated with lower IQ in children. More studies are needed to fully understand the potential for lower fluoride exposure to affect children’s IQ."

Why would we want in the water something that we're moderately confident that it reduces children's IQ? 

https://ntp.niehs.nih.gov/publications/monographs/mgraph08