RFK Jr. says a Trump White House would immediately push to remove fluoride from water

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RFK Jr. says a Trump White House would immediately push to remove fluoride from water

WASHINGTON — Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said Saturday that a

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would, on its first day, “advise all U.S​. water systems to remove fluoride from public water.”

Kennedy cited linked fluoride to various illnesses, despite major medical associations supporting water fluoridation, which they say is safe and a benefit to public health.

“President ​@realDonaldTrump and First Lady @MELANIATRUMP want to Make America Healthy Again,” the former Democratic presidential hopeful wrote in a

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, tagging Michael Connett, an attorney who has led litigation that opposed the fluoridation of public drinking water.

On January 20, the Trump White House will advise all U.S​. water systems to remove fluoride from public water. Fluoride is an industrial waste associated with arthritis, bone fractures, bone *******, IQ loss, neurodevelopmental disorders, and thyroid ********. President…

— Robert F. Kennedy Jr (@RobertKennedyJr)

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Kennedy, a vaccine skeptic who has

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of pushing *********** theories, is primed to play a key role in a future Trump administration’s health policy. Since dropping out of the presidential race and endorsing Trump, Kennedy has frequently appeared on the campaign trail stumping for the former president, and Trump said at a rally this week that if he is elected, Kennedy is “going to work on health and women’s health.”

Trump has embraced Kennedy. In an event in Arizona

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, the former president said that Kennedy “can do anything he wants” in a potential Trump administration.

“He really wants to with the pesticides and the, you know, all the different things. I said, ‘He can do it. He can do anything he wants.’ He wants to look at the vaccines. He wants —everything. I think it’s great. I think it’s great,” Trump had said.

In late October,

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that having Kennedy as an ally “is such a great honor,” adding that he would let Kennedy “go wild on health.”

“I’m going to let him go wild on health. I’m going to let him go wild on the food. I’m going to let him go wild on medicines,” Trump had said.

Kennedy, a former independent presidential candidate, has touted

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theories linking vaccines and autism. He also

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that he would support a national ban on ********* after three months of pregnancy, before quickly walking back his comments.

When reached for comment on Kennedy’s proposal, Trump campaign senior adviser Danielle Alvarez did not commit to backing the plan.

“While President Trump has received a variety of policy ideas, he is focused on Tuesday’s election,” Alvarez said in a statement.

Major public health groups such as the

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, the

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support water fluoridation, citing studies showing that the mineral helps ****** cavities. Health groups also emphasize that the practice is safe.

“Water fluoridation is an equitable and inexpensive way to ensure that prevention of dental ******** reaches everyone in a community,” the ********* Academy of Pediatrics’ website says.

The academy’s Campaign for Dental Health also says on its website that “there is no scientifically valid evidence to show that fluoride causes *******, kidney ********, or other disorders.”

Fluoride helps make teeth “stronger and more resistant to decay,” according to the CDC’s website, and drinking fluoridated water “reduces cavities by about 25% in children and adults.”

“Documented risks of community water fluoridation are limited to dental fluorosis, a change in dental enamel that is cosmetic in its most common form. Changes range from barely visible lacy white markings in milder cases to pitting of the teeth in the rare, severe form,” the CDC’s

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, noting that most dental fluorosis seen in the U.S. today is “of the mildest form.”

Similarly, the ********* Dental Association says on its website that water fluoridation is “safe and effective.”

“Throughout more than 70 years of research and practical experience, the overwhelming weight of credible scientific evidence has consistently indicated that fluoridation of community water supplies is safe,” says a fact sheet on the

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Water fluoridation is not ubiquitous, and the CDC

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fluoridation programs. Some cities have worked to end public water fluoridation programs as groups argue that it should be

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to decide whether they want fluoride in public water supplies.

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