First, a federal judge ruled that fluoride poses an “UNREASONABLE” risk to children's intelligence.
Now, several US cities are hitting PAUSE on water fluoridation. This is incredible, and I'll tell you why.
For years, people were called “conspiracy theorists” for pointing out that fluoridation might have harmful effects on health, particularly children's brain development.
But that’s no longer the case as U.S. District Judge Edward Chen’s ruling has forced cities to rethink the practice. The court found that fluoridation at current levels could harm children’s IQ.
Rick North, of the Fluoride Action Network, said, “Fluoridation is a house of cards and it’s going to fall. It’s only a matter of when. Our job is to make the wind blow.”
As North put it, "No one has to wait for the EPA… it’s time to take matters into your own hands," encouraging local officials to halt water fluoridation.
So far, four US cities with a combined population of 550,000 people have halted the practice of water fluoridation. It's likely that many more are to come.
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If you're worried about ticks, put up an owl box.
The animal driving most Lyme disease in the eastern US is the white-footed mouse. Ticks that feed on them are far more likely to come away infected than ticks that feed on other animals. The bigger the local mouse population, the worse the next year's tick year.
A single barred owl pair raising chicks can take hundreds of rodents in a breeding season. Owls also don't carry Lyme. The bacterium can't survive their digestive tract, so an owl that eats an infected mouse is a dead end for the disease.
Researchers at the Cary Institute, the leading lab on Lyme ecology, have been explicit about this: "Landscapes that support predators have reduced Lyme disease risk."
One owl box on its own isn't going to fix a tick year. But a yard with owls, foxes, bobcats, and weasels in it has fewer mice, and a yard with fewer mice has fewer infected ticks.
If you have woods or fields nearby, a properly sized barn owl or screech owl box (different species, different ...
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