White House Press Release - NYT Smear Attempt Omits Its Own Critical Context

The New York Times's story on Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.'s review of fluoride recommendations is another thinly veiled attempt to falsely portray the Trump Administration as anti-science and anti-health — a characterization that couldn't be farther from the truth.

In January, The New York Times itself reported that "fluoride may be linked to lower I.Q. scores in children." Why did the Times not note its own prior reporting in its article on Secretary Kennedy?

Or these facts:

• Fluoride is the only chemical added to drinking water that does not treat the water; it is added to water only for medicinal purposes.

• Most industrialized nations, including much of Europe, do not add fluoride to their water — and it has had no discernible detriment on their dental health.

• The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention now concedes that fluoride's predominant dental benefit comes from topical contact with the outside of the teeth, not ingestion — making it unnecessary to ingest fluoride.

• In August 2024, the Department of Health and Human Service's National Toxicology Program concluded with "moderate confidence" that fluoride in water at just 1.5 mg/L is "consistently associated with lower IQ in children."

• Recent studies of CDC's National Health and Nutrition Examination Surveys have found significant associations between low levels of fluoride and various indicators of chronic disease, including reduced testosterone levels in boys, increased inflammation, altered kidney and liver function, and increased sleep problems.