by Derrick Broze, Activist Post:
Why does the corporate media continue to fail so horribly when it comes to reporting on water fluoridation?
In the days before Donald Trump was elected to be the 47th President of the United States the topic of water fluoridation was heavily discussed by the corporate media. While most of the stories acknowledge recent scientific and legal developments surrounding the practice of water fluoridation, most of the mainstream reporting displays an authority bias and unwillingness to question the narrative that fluoride is safe and effective.
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Much of the recent increase in attention can be attributed to Trump’s one-time opponent, now champion of his “Make America Healthy Again” brand, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Three days before the 2024 Presidential election, Kennedy stated that on January 20th, Trump’s first day in office, he would advise “all U.S. water systems to remove fluoride from public water.”
He called fluoride an “industrial waste” which has been linked to arthritis, bone fractures, bone cancer, IQ loss, neurodevelopmental disorders, and thyroid disease.
On January 20, the Trump White House will advise all U.S. water systems to remove fluoride from public water. Fluoride is an industrial waste associated with arthritis, bone fractures, bone cancer, IQ loss, neurodevelopmental disorders, and thyroid disease. President…
— Robert F. Kennedy Jr (@RobertKennedyJr) November 2, 2024
Trump was later asked about Kennedy’s statement by NBC News and stated, “Well, I haven’t talked to him about it yet, but it sounds OK to me.”
Almost immediately the corporate media unleashed an onslaught of fact checks and official statements reassuring the public that all was well, and fluoride was indeed still considered one of the CDC’s top ten public health achievement’s of the 20th century. The fervor only increased after Trump announced he was nominating Robert F. Kennedy as head of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).
The NY Times made sure to inform their loyal audience that the idea of fluoride being unsafe was “immediately criticized by many public health experts as anti-science misinformation”.
Interestingly, NY Times writer Emily Oster acknowledges, “there’s a real danger to painting everyone with concerns about fluoride as a conspiracy theorist”. However, she blames the complexity of the topic and public health experts failing to explain such complexity as a reason many Americans are skeptical of the claims that fluoride is safe.
Overall, the message is that Americans are too dumb to understand why fluoride is so complex, and that public health officials need to do a better job at explaining to the masses why fluoride is good for them.
