Dallek says that the theories were particularly pushed in the 1960s by the John Birch Society, a far right group that alleged communists had infiltrated much of the government. The group believed that “any step towards government interventions was essentially a step on the road to a communist country,” he says. As a result, they “latched on to fluoride as part of a communist plot.”
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