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I am Suing the US EPA Over Fluoride Added to Our Drinking Water
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Studies show that the unnecessary fluoride chemicals purposely added to the Madison drinking water supply is health-harming in many ways; but most critically to infants’ developing brains. Several organizations and individuals sued the Environmental Protection Agency to recognize fluoride’s neurological effects when setting safe water fluoride standards. Plaintiffs include myself and children, Ko and Hayden Staudenmaier. The case heads back to federal court on Aug. 26, 2021.
Fluoridation began in the 1940s with the mistaken belief that ingested fluoride was essential to reduce tooth decay. It doesn’t. Fluoridated toothpastes might help, but not fluoridated water. In today’s polarized environment, politics
Vaccines contain “active ingredients”. This usually refers to either “killed” (inactivated) whole virus, or components of a target virus (known as “attenuated” vaccine). There’s a new vaccine type, called mRNA vaccines. But they have the same objective: give them through a shot in the arm (intramuscular) and trigger our body’s immune response to antigens viruses, bacteria and other pathogens, or parts of them.
To manufacture vaccines in a safe and effective way, and in order for them to work well, it’s important that they also contain other key ingredients. These are also known as excipients . With the current pandemic, the role of vaccines has come to the fore. We explore some numbers:
By Rachel Brazil2021-04-26T09:25:00+01:00
Rachel Brazil looks into the dangerous world of chemical conspiracy theories and asks the experts what we can do about it
In the age of Covid-19, conspiracy theories are all around us. Some say the virus was created by the military, others blame symptoms on 5G technology and some even say the virus doesn’t exist at all. But conspiracy theories are not new. ‘They’ve always been a way of thinking that people turn to in times of crisis, when things are not clear,’ says social psychologist Karen Douglas from the University of Kent in the UK.