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> fluoride is created by nuclear weapons construction as waste and the government has to get rid of it somehow, so in the water it goes

Like some wild conspiracy theories, there is a kernel of truth to this one. Namely, the fluoride used in water fluoridation is indeed an industrial byproduct -- except not from nuclear weapon manufacture, but from the production of phosphate fertilizer.

From the CDC (which is definitely on the pro-fluoridation side of things) website https://www.cdc.gov/fluoridation/engineering/engineering-sho...

> The three fluoride additives used for water fluoridation are derived principally from phosphate fertilizer production.