By Gary Null, PhD and Richard Gale

In the 1964 satirical black comedy film Dr. Strangelove, there is the iconic scene where the rogue general Jack D. Ripper, played by Sterling Hayden, tells Peter Sellers’ character, “Ever hear of the fluoridation of water? Do you realize that fluoridation is the most monstrously conceived and dangerous Communist plot we ever had to face?”

From that day to the present, the entire pharmaceutical and dental industries, public health officials, and the mainstream media have assumed that fluoride is absolutely safe. Anyone who dares to criticize water fluoridation and its dental use is a loon or conspiracy theorist who threatens national health.

Yet, as with so many medical and health challenges we face, the dominant consensus is wrong. The large body of evidence to support anti-fluoridation advocacy is substantial and continues to grow. In fact, throughout the U.S. and other nations, concerned citizens, consumer activists, and whistleblowers are putting pressure on state and local governments and public utilities to cease and desist in spiking our drinking water with fluoride. 

Finally, the pushback against decades of lies, misinformation, and media propaganda to seduce us into accepting corporate and government-sponsored junk science supporting fluoridation is reaching a tipping point towards public safety.

In 2019, an alliance of public health organizations and watch groups filed suit against the EPA in a federal court trial to bring an end to fluoridation once and for all. A recent judge’s ruling permitted the suit, represented by two distinguished attorneys – Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Michel Connett – to continue “the merits in light of the substantial scientific evidence proffered at trial.”

And this past August, researchers at Mount Sinai School of Medicine announced their findings that low-level chronic exposure to fluoride in drinking water induces adverse changes in kidney and liver function in young people.

The evidence against fluoride continues to pile up. 

According to Wikipedia, sodium fluoride is the 215th most-prescribed medication in the U.S. This benevolent description is posted without any context and states as a matter-of-fact that orally-consumed fluoride has no proven adverse effect on dental health aside from causing dental fluorosis, an unsightly mottling of the teeth. Studies that suggest this can be a sign of fluoride-induced brain damage are ignored. Also missing are the scientific warnings about fluoride’s detrimental effects on nearly every system of the human body, which have been repeatedly studied and confirmed. 

Actually, sodium fluoride is rarely used in the U.S. for fluoridating water. Instead, hexafluorosilicic acid and sodium hexafluorosilicate (SiFs), toxic byproducts of phosphate fertilizer and aluminum manufacturing, are used. Both are deemed industrial pollutants if released into the air via factory smokestacks or into the environment via drainpipes. Yet, when deliberately added to drinking water, they are classified as benevolent. These fluoride compounds have never been approved or even tested by the FDA for safety. Studies have shown that SiFs can double or even triple the rate of lead uptake in children’s bloodstreams.

Adding SiFs to drinking water lowers its pH, rendering it more corrosive and thus more likely to leach lead and other contaminants as it flows through pipes. Even when a neutralizing agent is added, SiFs’ “unique affinity for lead” can leach tiny amounts of the metal from any lead-containing pipe or fixture through which treated water flows. Used in combination with chlorine and chloramine, common disinfectants added to drinking water, the rate of lead uptake from SiF-treated water is off the charts.

SiFs and lead have a synergistic effect, meaning consuming both is significantly more damaging to brain tissue than consuming either alone, wreaking particular havoc in the brain’s hippocampus, the area responsible for learning and memory, and causing a marked decline in IQ.

We often hear that the only “clear adverse effect” of water fluoridation is dental fluorosis. Hundreds of scientific studies would beg to differ. In 2018 alone, over a dozen studies were published that exposed fluoride's detrimental effects but have been categorically ignored by the mainstream media. Oddly, less developed nations are far more concerned with protecting their populations' health than our federal health agencies. A Mexican study published in Toxicology and Applied Pharmacology concluded, “Fluoride could be considered an environmental kidney toxicant.” A Kenyan study published in the American Journal of Medicine and Medical Sciences reported that auditory working memory significantly declined as fluoride concentration in drinking water increased, confirming the results of an earlier systematic review showing lower IQ in children in high-fluoride areas. 


A pair of Polish studies published in the International Journal of Molecular Sciences and the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health observed strong evidence for fluoride's role in triggering and progressing Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias, given the substance’s role in oxidative stress and inflammation.

Fluoride’s toxicity extends from the skeletal system, through the endocrine system, reproductive system, and neurological system. It is criminal that Wikipedia parrots the chemical industry’s claims that fluoride toxicity associated with toothpaste ingestion is rare; in fact, there are over 23,000 reports of toothpaste-related fluoride poisoning annually. 

Ever since Harvard researcher Philippe Grandjean added fluoride to a list of developmental neuro-toxicants considered especially harmful to the developing brain in a 2014 paper published in The Lancet, our health officials have suffered from institutionalized cognitive dissonance by denying fluoride-induced illness.

As more papers identifying the adverse risks of environmental toxins, including fluoride, are added to the list of chemicals most damaging to human development, Dr. Grandjean and his colleagues have called for the formation of coordinated research into the neuro-toxicants and their role in the rising global prevalence of neurodevelopmental disabilities. Sadly, such an urgent endeavor would likely be completely ignored by the US's federal health and environmental authorities.

In the meantime, our government continues to live in the idyllic fantasy of scientific-naivety that was the public rage in the 1950s, when fluoride was the magic ingredient for whiter teeth, DDT would keep the bugs away, and humanity would be saved by the atomic bomb.

  1. HandsFree 1 month ago

    Yep, Let them eat the waste — and hey, it is good for you we promise!!! Have we ever lied to you?

  2. beautyspot 1 month ago

    They are rolling out mass fluoridation in water drinking systems in New Zealand right now! For our health!

  3. Craig Bradley 1 month ago


    Drinking water in Southern California has been fluoridated since the 1950’s. In low concentrations, this chemical addition has been very beneficial to the public’s dentition. My family dentist once told me that he could recognize individuals who were not from this region just by the condition of their tooth enamel.

    Residents of Calif. have stronger teeth because of these fluoride additions whereas residents of other states have cavity-prone teeth overall due to a deficiency of fluoride in their drinking water. This is especially true for young children whose teeth are in development.

    The subject of treating drinking water with fluoride has been extensively researched by the U.S. Navy and the results are quite positive, as well. Environmentalists are shills who would suggest its better to have pure water and bad teeth, like my late mother had all her life ( she just had bad teeth). If you like poverty, then by all means, drink bottled water as a child and experience the “joy of dentistry”.

  4. Steven Crook 1 month ago

    I’m still getting push back from my Normie friends and family when I tell them fluoride is poisonous. Like how can people believe that of all things the government loves us soooo much as to add drugs to our water to ensure we have white teeth? People really are programmed from cradle to grave.

  5. Chris Kanakaris 1 month ago

    If I’m not mistaken both Hitler and Stalin use fluoride in a gas form to dumb down their prisoners and make them more complacent and less apt to stand up for themselves and resist captivity. it’s certainly a Demasculinizing agent which clearly showsIt’s effectiveness in our city society today.

  6. a1achiropractic 1 month ago

    In the 1950’s they started using fluoride in tooth paste and adding it to water. This was pushed by the aluminum industry who went so far that they proposed laws and got them passed by are caring political class to make it illegal to say that aluminum and it’s by products are unhealthy when put in our food / water supplies.
    Hence the addition of aluminum, a severe neurotoxin to baking powder. Pure food laws that were on the books were stripped and the quality of our food stuffs has been going down hill since. Only in the recent past has the public’s awareness made some of these practices so unprofitable that they have been discontinued.
    As far as “modern” food processing and additives to our food supplies / practices as being superior to that of aboriginal food supplies / practices, I would suggest you read, “Nutrition and Physical Degeneration” by Weston A. Price, DDS and you will see the tragedy caused by using processed foods on people that occurs within one generation of using this food of little nutritional value.

  7. Paul Sacco 1 month ago

    Good Lord – doesn’t anyone play it straight anymore?

    Who knows what other neurotoxins and carcinogens they’ve been putting in the water all these years. Maybe that is a major reason for the spike in autism and childhood cancer.

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