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What's New The city of Tavares has voted to remove fluoride from water, after Donald Trump's pick for Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. spoke out against keeping the chemical in public water.
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Benedict Cosgrove, Newsweek, 19 Dec. 2024
Seventy-seven Nobel laureates are urging the Senate to vote down Donald Trump's nomination of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to run the nation’s top health agency, pointing to his views against vaccines and fluoride in drinking water, among other things.
—Erin Mansfield, USA TODAY, 10 Dec. 2024
Many crunchy moms subscribe to the notion that fluoride in drinking water is unsafe and vaccines are dangerous, both of which have been scientifically proven to have health benefits.
—Sydney Lake, Fortune Well, 4 Dec. 2024
Since the nineteen-forties, fluoride has been added to America’s drinking-water supply, in an effort to fortify the citizenry’s teeth and bones.
—Charles Bethea, The New Yorker, 2 Dec. 2024
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Benedict Cosgrove, Newsweek, 19 Dec. 2024
Seventy-seven Nobel laureates are urging the Senate to vote down Donald Trump's nomination of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to run the nation’s top health agency, pointing to his views against vaccines and fluoride in drinking water, among other things.
—Erin Mansfield, USA TODAY, 10 Dec. 2024
Many crunchy moms subscribe to the notion that fluoride in drinking water is unsafe and vaccines are dangerous, both of which have been scientifically proven to have health benefits.
—Sydney Lake, Fortune Well, 4 Dec. 2024
Since the nineteen-forties, fluoride has been added to America’s drinking-water supply, in an effort to fortify the citizenry’s teeth and bones.
—Charles Bethea, The New Yorker, 2 Dec. 2024
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“Fluoride.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/fluoride. Accessed 2 Jan. 2025.
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fluoride
noun
flu·o·ride
ˈflu̇(-ə)r-ˌīd 
1
: a compound of fluorine with a more electropositive element or radical
2
: the monovalent anion of fluorine
fluoride
adjective
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