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EXPERT ATTORNEY EXPOSES DECADES OF FLUORIDE HARMS

The Highwire with Del Bigtree

The Highwire with Del Bigtree

News, Society & Culture, Health & Fitness

4.93.4K Ratings

🗓️ 5 November 2024

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

Fresh off a historic win against the EPA over the use of fluoride in drinking water, lead attorney for the plaintiffs, Michael Connett, Esq., discusses the decades-long concealment of the significant harms fluoride poses to human health and its implications for the future of water fluoridation.

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0:00.0

One of the biggest stories that came across my desk is this fluoride trial that just recently ended.

0:06.0

And remember, fluoride was one of the, if not, greatest public health achievements of all time.

0:12.0

And now it's not so much because of a court ruling.

0:15.0

And this is what it looked like in the news.

0:17.0

New concerns about fluoride and drinking water.

0:19.0

A federal ruling is questioning how much of it is safe.

0:22.8

A federal judge in California has ordered the Environmental Protection Agency to address the potential impacts of fluoride in drinking water.

0:30.4

Researchers with the Department of Health and Human Services analyzed previously published research and said they determined, quote, with moderate confidence

0:38.5

that there is a link between higher levels of fluoride exposure and lower IQ in kids.

0:44.2

The Environmental Protection Agency could challenge that ruling which could send the case

0:49.2

to the Supreme Court. Lawmakers in some states aren't waiting for the courts. It's time to update this law.

0:56.0

Let's take this out. The city of Monroe is considering removing fluoride it puts into its drinking water.

1:01.0

The city of Abilene isn't taking any chances. As of right now, I've directed the

1:06.0

Lutility Department to stop adding fluoride to the city's drinking supply until the EPA makes

1:12.3

a final ruling on what they're going to do.

1:15.4

200 million Americans living communities that put fluoride in its tap water, and almost every

1:20.9

toothpaste has fluoride in it.

1:22.8

Unfortunately, the CDC and the American Dental Association have ignored really decades' worth of

1:28.3

studies indicating harm from fluoride and chosen to work on the health of the tooth over

1:33.3

the health of children's brains.

1:36.3

And that is just some of the media coverage by a world-changing ruling by Judge Edward Chen.

1:43.3

And this ruling came down just recently. We're looking

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