Sawbones Classics: Fluoride

Sawbones: A Marital Tour of Misguided Medicine

Justin McElroy

Medical History, Health & Fitness, History, Medicine, Comedy, Sawbones

4.8 • 15.1K Ratings

🗓️ 20 May 2025

⏱️ 44 minutes

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With all the news around fluoride, we bring the classic Sawbones episode about the benefits of fluoride in drinking water, because the science has not changed. This week, Dr. Sydnee and Justin explore a medical mystery: Why, for a town in Colorado, was having brown teeth a sign of great tooth health? Music: "Medicines" by The Taxpayers https://taxpayers.bandcamp.com/ Center for Reproductive Rights: https://reproductiverights.org/

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0:00.0	Hello, everybody, and welcome to Sawbones, Marital Tour of Miss Guy in Medicine.
0:02.8	I'm your go-host, Justin McElroy.
0:04.1	And I'm Sydney McRoy.
0:05.1	And it's just kind of a, I have to do that for superstition, but this is not the actual episode yet.
0:10.0	No.
0:10.4	Well, will you do it again?
0:11.8	Will they hear that again?
0:12.8	I don't know.
0:13.8	It is.
0:14.7	What are we doing? was, there's been a lot of, of news lately about health and, health and human services and the
0:22.8	secretary thereof. Yeah. And one of the things that, that was making headlines, is fluoride.
0:30.6	Um, we know, RFK Jr. is not a big fan of putting fluoride in public drinking water. He has a lot of
0:36.9	concerns that it's a neurotoxin.
0:39.0	And shall I just preface with many of these concerns have been found to not be based in any sort of evidence,
0:46.9	as long as fluoride is kept to appropriate levels meeting EPA standards in our drinking water.
0:52.7	However, he has recently said publicly that he is going
0:57.0	to direct the CDC to stop recommending it. That's not the same as banning it, but he is going to
1:03.2	direct them to stop recommending it. And he could work with the EPA to change the levels that are
1:08.4	allowed in drinking water to in effect ban it.
1:12.3	Yeah.
1:12.6	If that makes sense.
1:13.6	Already one state, Utah has banned fluoride in public drinking water and RFK Jr. has plotted that and feels like they have set the precedent that should be followed by the rest of the nation.
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