You only linked one? The other is referenced in an article. The way these studies were conducted and the populations used does not immediately translate to fluoride being the issue since that wasn’t the only variable. It’s worth exploring, but it’s really not enough to change decades of dental hygiene improvements.
Respectfully, I’m going to be immediately suspicious of any study that uses IQ as the measuring standard. IQ is not an objective measure of intelligence or cognitive ability. The same person taking the test will probably have a different score every time they take it. I’m not saying fluoride does or does not have an effect on cognitive ability or intelligence. But IQ is hardly going to be the way to figure that out.
Edit: I also don’t know how you’d conclude it’s fluoride and not literally anything else they’re consuming.
Well, yes. If you want to correct people being lied to by clickbait, the best way to reach them with the truth is also going to be clickbait. You’re not the target audience.
First, it doesn’t matter what Harris or Trump’s fathers believed, Harris is not a communist and Trump is a fascist based on their own stated beliefs and the policies they promoted while in office and running for election.
Second, it doesn’t matter what people perceive. What matters is reality. I’d wager most Nazis didn’t think of themselves as bad people. They were still fucking Nazis. Similarly, I agree most Trump supporters don’t think they are fascist or support fascism. However, their perception has no bearing on whether or not they’re actually fascist. And based on their chosen candidate, Trump supporters absolutely bare minimum support fascism.
This may surprise you but they don’t really need as many nukes as Russia claims to have on paper. As long as they have enough that work, or hell, even just one, MAD is in play.
This may surprise you, but the ones that didn’t vote but could tacitly were fine with Trump as well.
They haven’t made you do that in while. There’s way too many foreign nationals in the U.S., it would be impossible, especially in a city. The standard is ongoing contact/close personal relationships. Having a one-off conversation with a Russian at a bar isn’t going to trigger the requirement unless there’s something suspicious about the conversation itself (like they keep asking about your job).
Buoyant!
Just to be accurate, smoking weed doesn’t disqualify you from a clearance. It can, but it’s not automatic, and you might be okay depending on the job, clearance level, and time since you last did any illegal substance.
So it’s really just one party’s supporters make a false claim about the other party’s supporters so that they can justify doing the made up bad act as well, they do the bad act, and the party whose supporters did not commit that crime continue not committing that crime.
Usually it’s the minimum amount of time for a crime to jump from misdemeanor to felony.
It’s a more complicated version of that feature where Gmail offers suggested responses like “let me look into that” and “thank you.”
Trump has affirmatively said he will ensure Israel is able to do whatever it wants.
As we’ve recently found out in the last few years, conservative bastions are not as solidly red as we believe. If you’re a Democrat in Idaho, fucking vote Democratic. It matters.
Whereas, and forgive me if I’m mistakenly assuming you’re advocating not voting for Harris, your worldview is just defeating. Every candidate but Harris will ensure that Palestinian suffering increases. Not voting will deny Harris a vote, therefore necessarily increase the odds of someone else winning and Palestinian suffering increasing. Palestinians are saying to vote for Harris. Votjng for a third party (all choices there, by the way, either actively endorse Trump (RFK Jr.) or are funded by Russia (Stein) so supports the genocide of Ukrainians) remove a vote for Harris and increase the odds of Palestinian suffering increasing. There is no scenario where if you’re an American citizen you can be a neutral bystander.
At this point, if you don’t vote for Harris, you’re voting for ethnic cleansing and genocide, quite possibly at home as well as abroad.
Said it in another post, but my main reason for keeping NYT is for their war and science reporting. There’s only a handful of decent outfits to get quality reporting on global conflict: Bellingcat, NYT, and War Nerd, among others. NYT probably has the best funding so they have a pretty far reach. I can’t think of another outfit that is actively reporting on Sudan, Bangladesh, Côte d’Ivoire, Central America, and a whole host of other areas.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/30/opinion/editorials/kamala-harris-2024.html
I don’t love the Times editorial/opinion boards but they’re hardly the same as WaPo and the L.A. Times. They also happen to be one of the only places to get decent coverage of global conflicts, along with Bellingcat and War Nerd. They should absolutely make significant changes in their, frankly, shit tier Gaza coverage. They’re also reporting on increasing attacks against the LGBTQ+ community in the Ivory Coast.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/25/world/africa/ivory-coast-lgbtq.html
And secret prisons in Bangladesh, where prisoners are tortured and disappeared.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/17/world/asia/bangladesh-disappeared.html
And (like everyone else) that Israel killed Lebanese journalists. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/25/world/middleeast/israel-strike-lebanon-journalists.html
They also featured firsthand accounts by doctors and a teacher of the horrors of IDF intentionally targeting children.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/10/09/opinion/gaza-doctor-interviews.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/08/opinion/gaza-teacher-students-school.html
So yes, NYT has awful coverage of Israel’s ongoing genocide in Gaza. Institutions are complicated and agenda-driven. They also have better coverage of conflicts in the rest of the world than most news outlets.
They also, unlike the Post and L.A. Times, actually picked a side, which is what’s specifically relevant to this post.
Yeah, basically IRL plot of Snow Crash.