The November 22 press conference with Florida’s surgeon general sheds a different light on Angry Poodle Barbecue’s “dumb kid” lament in The Dogfather : “It is public health malpractice, with the information we have now, to continue adding fluoride to water,” Surgeon General Joseph A. Ladapo said followed by written guidance detailing the latest research showing that exposure to fluoridated water can lead to neurodevelopmental issues in children, including lower IQ .
Unlike William Kennerly, Nick Welsh was spared from swallowing fluoride as a "dumb kid." William swallowed the fluoride mouth rinse he was given at his first dental cleaning as a three-year-old. His dental hygienist neglected to tell him not swallow the rinse. He died 4.5 hours later. You can read more about it in the New York Times, January 20, 1979.
Regarding Robert Kennedy Jr’s position on water fluoridation, the NIH’s Pub Med Central from February 14, 2014, agrees with him: “This paper reviews the human health effects of fluoride. The authors conclude that available evidence suggests that fluoride has a potential to cause major adverse human health problems, while having only a modest dental caries prevention effect … the practice of artificial water fluoridation should be reconsidered globally … ”