I’m sure they are, but that’s not my point. I’m just saying that it’s not really medically necessary to flouridate water when fluoridated toothpaste and other treatments are so readily available

The thing is, research and learning is itself a skill that must be learned, and they don’t teach critical thinking skills in school. Without an occasional friction-laden experience of figuring something out by trial and error, you won’t ever learn HOW to learn, and I think that’s the thing people get hung up on here. It not “younger ppl be stupid” its just literally “younger people are generally exhibiting less and less critical thinking skills year over year”.

Replying to you here from a Google Pixel running Graphene OS here for no particular reason

There is no PDF?

I am happy to say “I don’t know.” And if it’s important I can and will go and find out how it works

THIS right here is the key factor here that I think people are missing. Learning is a skill and many people no longer have that skill

This isn’t really a right-wing wackadoo thing (or at least not exclusively).

Portland, OR hasn’t put fluoride in their drinking water for a VERY long time, with many people citing the fact that they don’t want the pristine Bull Run water source tainted.

If you use fluoridated (or even nanosilver particle) toothpaste and/or mouth wash, there isn’t really any logical reason to also have it in your drinking water, right?