In the wake of Donald Trump’s presidential election win, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the former presidential candidate and Trump ally, said the new Trump administration will make removing fluoride from public water in the U.S. a day one priority.
Trump has said Kennedy, who has frequently pushed theories, including around vaccines and 9/11, is poised to take on a key role in the administration’s approach to public health. Kennedy claims fluoride is connected to arthritis, bone fractures, cancer and IQ loss, among other illnesses, but are these ideas founded in fact?
