https://origins.osu.edu/index.php/article/toxic-treatment-fluorides-transformation-industrial-waste-public-health-miracle

In the early 1940s, Dean began to explore the possibility of testing artificial fluoridation in a handful of carefully chosen communities. After consulting with colleagues at the University of Michigan, Dean selected the towns of Grand Rapids and Muskegon to participate in a 15-year fluoridation trial. Both cities drew their water, which had virtually no natural fluoride, from Lake Michigan. In January 1945, with the enthusiastic cooperation of city officials, Grand Rapids began adding sodium fluoride—a waste product of aluminum production—to its water supply while Muskegon remained fluoride free.

A byproduct of aluminum production. Naturally occurring fluorides are proally fine, or at least safer than a toxic waste by product but hey whatever.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6309358/

Fluoride research had its beginnings in 1901, when Frederick McKay was astounded to find scores of Colorado Springs natives with grotesque brown stains on their teeth known as Colorado Brown Stain. McKay in 1909 along with Dr. G. V. Black conducted a study showing that almost 90% of the city's locally born children had signs of the brown stains.

Later, Dr. Treadley H. Dean began investigating the epidemiology of fluorosis in 1931. One of his primary research concerns was determining how high fluoride levels could be in drinking water before fluorosis occurred. For this purpose, a state-of-the-art method to measure fluoride levels in water with an accuracy of 0.1 parts per million (ppm) was developed. Dean and his staff set out across the country to compare fluoride levels in drinking water. By the late 1930s, he and his staff had made a critical discovery. Namely, fluoride levels of up to 1.0 ppm in drinking water did not cause enamel fluorosis in most people and only mild enamel fluorosis in a small percentage of people.

Dean wondered whether adding fluoride to drinking water at physically and cosmetically safe levels would help fight tooth decay.

As of 2012, 25 countries have artificial water fluoridation to varying degrees, 11 of them have more than 50% of their population drinking fluoridated water. A further 28 countries have water that is naturally fluoridated, though in many of them the fluoride is above the recommended safe level.

Dr. Charles Bett, a prominent antifluoridationist, charged that fluoridation was “better than using the atom bomb” because the atom bomb has to be made and transported to the place it is to be set off while poisonous fluorine has been placed right beside the water supplies which we consume as a daily necessity. In 1987, Ian E. Stephens claimed that he was told by “Charles Elliot Perkins” that “repeated doses of infinitesimal amounts of fluoride will in time reduce an individual's power to resist domination by slowly poisoning and narcotizing a certain area of the brain and will thus make him submissive to the will of those who wish to govern him”. All these claims back then had a political and ethical basis and rarely any scientific basis was found.

:shrugs:

Alex has a flair for the dramatic, hes a talk show host. Doesnt make him wrong however....

Im still impressed honestly, that these companys were able to take a toxic waste product which would cost lots of money to break down and dispose of properly, disperse it through the water system let us organics break it down instead.

Fucking lex luther levels of evilness here.

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Just to add, this was around the time when the government was doing all sorts of experiments on the population. Mk ultra which was real, justin trudea put a gag order on the family of people who were experimented on.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/canadian-government-gag-order-mk-ultra-1.4448933

https://www.cdc.gov/tuskegee/timeline.htm

Or the black airmen experimented on by their own fucking government.

Yes, fluoride is totally there to protect your teeth, totes.

They were the good guys!