The issue of water fluoridation is back in the public eye. It was widely believed to have been a settled science, with every respectable professional supporting mass fluoridation. However, new findings indicate that many of the skeptics’ concerns were valid.

Opposing fluoride in the water has been a third-rail issue in American politics since the 1940s, when the national push for water fluoridation gained momentum. Those opposed to the mass drugging of the water supply were painted as silly paranoid kooks, the type of people who might attend a John Birch Society meeting, and were lampooned in popular movies like Dr. Strangelove. Ultimately, they were successfully stigmatized, and their concerns were dismissed.

However, six decades later, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is leading a campaign to end water fluoridation, and it is no longer an issue reserved for the fringes of politics. RFK Jr. stated shortly before the 2024 presidential election that the Trump administration “will advise all U.S​ water systems to remove fluoride from public water,” noting that “fluoride is an industrial waste associated with arthritis, bone fractures, bone cancer, IQ loss, neurodevelopmental disorders, and thyroid disease.”

US District Court Judge Edward Chen, an Obama appointee, agreed with RFK Jr.’s assessment in a ruling last year. Judge Chen found that the fluoridation of water can harm the environment and lower IQs in children, stating that the risk posed by water fluoridation is unreasonable compared to its purported public health benefits. The EPA is currently conducting a risk assessment in response to the ruling. Yet again, it appears that the conspiracy theorists were correct, and the medical establishment was wrong this entire time.

“After many years of them ignoring us and defending fluoridation, we had an opportunity to get a fair and balanced adjudication in courts,” said Stuart Cooper, director of the Fluoridation Action Network, in response to Judge Chen’s ruling.

"You have agencies that have aggressively promoted fluoridation for decades in a very unnuanced, sledgehammer way, so it’s quite a departure from that party line to say, 'Oh, oops, it might be damaging the brain. There’s an institutional credibility and inertia issue,'" said Michael Connett, lead attorney on the case, who expects continued pushback from the medical establishment despite the growing evidence of the negative health impacts of fluoridation.

States are beginning to act against the scourge of fluoride. Last week, Utah became the first state to approve an outright ban on water fluoridation, preventing municipalities from dumping the chemical into local water supplies. This drew the ire of the American Dental Association, which claimed the common-sense reform demonstrated “wanton disregard for the oral health and well-being of their constituents.” Ohio, South Carolina, and Florida may be the next states to pass measures that would follow Utah’s example in banning fluoride.

It is evident that the tide is turning against mass fluoridation, but one question remains: Were the alarmists right all along? It is undeniable that the public has become more accepting of fluoride in the generations since it was added to the water supply. Critical thinking ability has declined precipitously, and the masses are increasingly accepting of the lies disseminated by the government and its corporate partners, who are pulling the strings. The people’s senses have become dulled, and they have been deprived of their ability to think independently. Has mass fluoridation been a contributing factor in this process? It certainly cannot be ruled out.

Are we still so naïve to think that dental health is the key factor in driving water fluoridation? This may have been a believable notion in the 1940s, fresh off the World War 2 victory, when few could have conceived how treacherous our government could be. But over eight decades later, the public has been robbed of its innocence. Americans have seen how their government will lie, cheat, steal, murder, and commit every act of mayhem and treachery to maintain its power. There are no depths to which they will not sink, even if it means something as villainous as dosing every man, woman, and child for social engineering.

The realization of Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World may have begun when the first vat of sodium fluoride was unceremoniously dumped into a local water supply. It indeed started the nationwide plunge into a pharmacological dreamworld, where hundreds of billions of dollars worth of pills and treatments are pumped into increasingly dependent and increasingly helpless citizens each year. The removal of fluoride from the water system is a good start. Still, far more must be done before Americans can reverse the mental damage inflicted upon them by a system that wants them cognitively diminished.