[deno]

It’s easy to dismiss the claim that fluoride is a mind control drug, if taken literally.

When I’ve probed just a little the actual claim I’ve heard is that it somehow affects personality, making for easier to control masses.

I don’t know whether that’s true but at least that’s a claim that can be falsified.

The other thing is:

“Tap water? You’re drinking toilet water with birth control drugs in them,”

There’s plenty of evidence for trace amount of estrogen and estrogen-like substances in the water. Maybe that’s not an issue, but it’s also true that testosterone levels in men are declining worldwide. However there can be a number of causes for this, and the two are not necessarily linked.

Not mentioned in this article, but on HN frontpage earlier, there’s tons of micro particles of plastic in oceans, and subsequently wild fish.

I don’t know those subjects enough to make any kind of informed observation… But dismissing all of it as conspiracy theory doesn’t really sound convincing anymore.

[cmiles74]

Microparticles of plastic in fish, in most cases, come from the water exiting a water treatment plant that is entering the environment. Some of these microparticles are manufactured, often in beauty or cleanser products, others are the result of plastics breaking down.

While tap water may contain these microparticles of plastic, there's no reason to believe that water out in the wild will be free of them.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microplastics

[KaiserPro]

fluoride isn't a mind control drug. They are too hard and don't work. From memory Cyclizine which is a motion sickness drug was originally a "truth serum", so you know, scandal and all that.

Social conditioning works far better, with facebook and twitter its fairly easy to do at scale (see bubble bias)

Tap water (in the uk at least) must be filtered and sterilized, which should remove microplastics.

However, some places just take river water, a rough filter and a massive UV light. (I've been to many a camp site that has this, heavy rains make the water taste different.)

[pbhjpbhj]

>Social conditioning works far better //

Por que no los dos?

[jjeaff]

Many wells have higher fluoride content than municipal supplies. So if we are wanting to create a complacent society, would have been better to leave people on well water.