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Re:Utah becomes first US state to ban fluoride in its water by kelipso on Saturday March 29, 2025 @11:57PM (#43521206)
It’s basically coping responses from people who are starting to realize they have been loudly wrong for years. It’s a fairly human response I suppose. They’ll get over it eventually after they go through the stages of grief or whatever.
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Re:Utah becomes first US state to ban fluoride in its water by ZYbCRq22HbJ2y7 on Sunday March 30, 2025 @02:07AM (#43521760)
> coping responses

No? What is a coping response? I asked the commenter to provide context to their links that supposedly show evidence for what the initial question was (does fluoride at the concentrations in drinking water cause harm), which they definitely do not show evidence for.

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Re:Utah becomes first US state to ban fluoride in its water by kelipso on Sunday March 30, 2025 @02:25PM (#43526331)
The thing is you are not being curious. You are basically putting your head in the sand and goading at people to drag it out for you.
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Re:Utah becomes first US state to ban fluoride in its water by JumpCrisscross on Sunday March 30, 2025 @08:18PM (#43529231)
> You are basically putting your head in the sand and goading at people to drag it out for you

Nah. I pretty much agree with what Utah is doing here (though I’d prefer just not mandating it and making the decision as local as it needs to be). OP’s link list looks AI generated. That’s just not a good-faith comment.

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Re:Utah becomes first US state to ban fluoride in its water by kelipso on Sunday March 30, 2025 @09:21PM (#43529674)
OP has already said that it was not AI generated and that he spent months doing due diligence to compile that list.

I suppose you want a summary, well read the abstracts of the papers. It's not that challenging, is it?

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Re:Utah becomes first US state to ban fluoride in its water by JumpCrisscross on Sunday March 30, 2025 @09:41PM (#43529803)
> OP has already said that it was not AI generated

They first went defensive when asked about it up thread [1].

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43519312

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Re:Utah becomes first US state to ban fluoride in its water by otterley on Sunday March 30, 2025 @09:04PM (#43529559)
You need to stop attacking people on HN. It's not permitted here. You are free to disagree with their statements and positions, but making character judgments like this is not OK.
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