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The Debate Around Fluoride Is Changing: What It Means For Your Drinking Water

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More regulations on fluoride in drinking water may be coming due to the new court order last week, experts say.

Fluoride, commonly added to drinking water to prevent cavities, has come under scrutiny.

Several cities have now stopped adding fluoride to their drinking water. But whether the whole landscape will change depends on what the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) will do next.

How Much Fluoride in Water Might Be Safe?

On Sept. 24, U.S. Federal Judge Edward Chen ordered the EPA to strengthen its rules around fluoride in drinking water.

The decision was made in light of The National Toxicology Program’s (NTP) report in August, which found that 1.5 milligrams of fluoride in drinking water is sufficient to pose neurodevelopmental risks in children.

The EPA calculates a margin of exposure to determine a safety buffer between the exposure and hazard levels. For fluoride, the exposure rate should be one-tenth of the hazard level, lawyer Michael Connett said.

Since the NTP’s report found 1.5 milligrams per liter to be potentially risky, exposure risks could start from 0.15 milligrams per liter, Connett added.

Americans’ current exposure level of 0.7 milligram per liter—”the level presently considered “optimal” in the United States – poses an unreasonable risk of reduced IQ in children,” Chen wrote in his ruling.

Currently, the EPA sets the maximum level for fluoride at 4 milligrams per liter, significantly higher than the risk level cited in the recent study.

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I have a friend who manages the water facilities in a fairly large city. She is a credentialed chemist and objects to fluoride most of all because in its raw form it is a very harmful substance and the workers who add it to drinking water are rarely, if ever, properly trained or dressed to do that job safely. ABN

Researchers discover previously unknown entities in the human body called ‘Obelisks’… their purpose is a mystery

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Researchers have discovered strange entities hiding in our guts and mouths that may represent an entirely new class of life—if they are even alive.

Dubbed “obelisks,” these tiny rings of RNA can fold into a structure that looks more like a rod, hence the name. They’re also surprisingly commonplace in our microbiomes—the community of viruses, bacteria, fungi, and their genes that live in our bodies. Yet, they’ve gone undetected until now and represent the latest discovery in an ever-growing list of mysterious “genetic agents” hiding in plain sight. Indeed, the researchers who discovered them report that their function, if they have one, is a mystery.

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I hope the word scientist becomes obsolete. Insofar as it has any meaning at all, we are all scientists. Frequent use of the word scientist promotes scientism as we saw during the plandemic. Fauci even claimed he was the science and most of the world bowed before his nonsense. People who do research in special fields are researchers. That’s a good term for an honorable profession which describes what they actually do without conferring upon them the sketchy status of priest of something arcane. ABN

Oldest ancient Egyptian astronomical observatory discovered

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Archaeologists have identified the first ancient Egyptian astronomical observatory on record, which they say is the “first and largest” of its kind, according to a translated statement from the country’s Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities.

An Egyptian archaeological team discovered the remains of the sixth-century-B.C. structure three years ago during excavations at an archaeological site in the ancient city of Buto, now called Tell Al-Faraeen, in Egypt’s Kafr El-Sheikh governorate.

“Everything we found shattered our expectations,” Hossam Ghonim, director general of Kafr El-Sheikh Antiquities and head of the Egyptian archaeological mission, told Live Science.

The team uncovered the ruins of an L-shaped mud-brick building spanning over 9,150 square feet (850 square meters). Its east-facing entrance, marked by a traditional gateway known as a pylon, leads to a spot where sunlight would have illuminated where the sky observer — known as ‘smn pe’ and who was usually a priest — stood to track the sun and stars, Ghonim said.

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