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remember when there used to be all these articles about how people in europe live longer than americans because they drink red wine and eat more olive oil or bullshit like that? turns out it was universal healthcare the whole time

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

It's banned in the EU and Japan. Their dental outcomes are the same over the same period, and guess what we have more of?

Fluoride in toothpaste isn't the same as what they dump in the drinking water, molecules matter.

One of those is a medical product lethal if you drink a bottle of it, the other is a hazardous material that you need training and PPE to handle