L7Death t1_ivdwy2r wrote
Reply to comment by DecentChanceOfLousy 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
Maybe you should actually read the full article or at least the second section.
Because it really seems like you didn't.
DecentChanceOfLousy t1_ive4gz3 wrote
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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