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No Broward official ever enacted such lunacies as banning fluoride in our water.
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Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 9 Aug. 2025
Our bean sprout-hugging secretary of Health and Human Services is extolling sugar while simultaneously trying to hoover up every drop of fluoride in the country.
—Pat Beall, The Orlando Sentinel, 27 July 2025
In fact, the legislation in Utah that banned the addition of fluoride to the public drinking water included provisions to expand access to prescription fluoride – emphasizing the desire for choice.
—Deidre McPhillips, CNN Money, 24 July 2025
One of the ironies of the move to ban fluoride supplements is that states that banned fluoride from water supplies pointed to supplements as a way that families could give fluoride to their children once it was removed from the water supply.
—Alana Semuels, Time, 23 July 2025
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Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 9 Aug. 2025
Our bean sprout-hugging secretary of Health and Human Services is extolling sugar while simultaneously trying to hoover up every drop of fluoride in the country.
—Pat Beall, The Orlando Sentinel, 27 July 2025
In fact, the legislation in Utah that banned the addition of fluoride to the public drinking water included provisions to expand access to prescription fluoride – emphasizing the desire for choice.
—Deidre McPhillips, CNN Money, 24 July 2025
One of the ironies of the move to ban fluoride supplements is that states that banned fluoride from water supplies pointed to supplements as a way that families could give fluoride to their children once it was removed from the water supply.
—Alana Semuels, Time, 23 July 2025
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“Fluoride.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/fluoride. Accessed 20 Aug. 2025.
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fluoride
noun
flu·o·ride
ˈflu̇(-ə)r-ˌīd 
1
: a compound of fluorine with a more electropositive element or radical
2
: the monovalent anion of fluorine
fluoride
adjective
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