DecentChanceOfLousy t1_ive4gz3 wrote
Reply to comment by L7Death in Private Interests and the Start of Fluoride-Supplemented High-Carbohydrate Nutritional Guidelines — Internal documents show that private interests motivated the events which led these expert panels to engage in pivotal scientific reversals. by Meatrition
The entire second section is about sugar/grain lobby shenanigans that took place decades after public officials started recommending fluoride (1961 and 1979/1986/1994 for American Heart Association and American Diabetes Association recommendations vs. 1940s for fluoridation recommendations). The diet recommendation reversals came more than a decade after fluoridation became public policy in the US, but they're presented first as an attempt to confuse the order of events for the reader.
I read the article. It's... not good. It relies on semantic trickery and intentional obfuscation to make its points. The parts that aren't nonsense ("sugar is terrible for your teeth/heart/diabetes", "fluoride would be less necessary if it weren't for excess sugar in popular foods", the actual record of events, etc.) are neither novel nor disputed.
Regardless, this belongs on /r/history, rather than /r/science. It's literally just a historical study citing snippets from other books and paper about events 50 years in the past, with 0 original research.
L7Death t1_ivhsrmc wrote
So it's not just "dental associations".
Cool.
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