Oddbean

The US government put #fluoride in our water and attacked anyone who questioned it. Now - the NIH (after major pressure) has declared it “reduces the IQ of children” and is “hazardous to human health”. Individual States are removing it from their water supply. This is under-covered news. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/epa-fluoride-drinking-water-federal-court-ruling/

Empirical evidence supporting life sciences therapies always needs its guinea pigs. Always. Sometime it happens you are the Guinea Pig. Governments/BigPharma: "why be careful when we can be reckless?"

no longer than few months ago I told the dentist I don’t want the toothpaste with fluoride, and she started bullshitting about the low amounts bla bla.. hmm ok, you are free to do whatever you believe, I am looking for a different dentist now:)

I just had the EXACT same thing happen to me not that long ago when I told my dentist I use toothpaste without fluoride. I described it saying “I use natural toothpaste” and the first question I received after that was “Does it have fluoride?” lol. Then once I answered “No” that’s when it all began

I will tell you more, the very same dentist told me I have to fix one tooth, ideally not even postpone it, but strangely not on that same visit though when I was already sitting there and paid. After that I went to orthodontist (because I scratch my teeth too much during coding), and that one suddenly wanted to put invisalign braces on my teeth. When I said the dentist few days ago told me to fix my tooth first, she replied there is nothing to treat and that dentists are often lying or exaggerating. That was shock to me. I said: if you admit they lie then how do I know you are honest? I didn’t put the braces. Bro, this is the world we live in. We must fix not only the money and socials, but we need trustworthy services in all domains. Basically a parallel world were people don’t lie not because of cryptographic system which verifies something, but because they fear of God, otherwise any moral standards are subjective (oh someone is in debt and has to feed the family so they will lie to sell sth)

Could not agree more. The medical industry is insanely corrupt, it’s sad. Once all of us begin to notice things, it doesn’t stop. Then, the world as we know it just falls apart in our minds bc you realize more than half of the people and industries are completely full of shit. But you are totally correct – building parallel economies and societies in the freest possible states (for US) seems to be the way forward. Modern tech + traditional living = ‘this is the way’ lol