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Nov 3, 2024 • 16 tweets • 4 min read
At the suggestion of a really fantastic twitter friend, all-around awesome person and top-notch journalist, @JSweetLI , here’s a short thread of how utterly wrong @RobertKennedyJr is about science - like EVERYTHING he says is wrong: 1/n 🧵
The myth about fluoridated water has been repeatedly debunked scores of times. In water and all minerals, fluorine is an anion, meaning it’s negatively charged (“F¯”). In teeth (an “apatite” crystal), the F¯ migrates down along the crystallographic “c” direction, 2/n