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Facebook posts
stated on June 3, 2023 in a Facebook post:

Boiling tap water causes fluoride in the water to be “more toxic.”

By Tom Kertscher • June 6, 2023
Instagram posts
stated on January 23, 2023 in an Instagram post:

“NASA stopped exploring the ocean.”

By Tom Kertscher • January 30, 2023
Donald Trump
stated on November 15, 2022 in a speech:

"They say the ocean will rise one-eighth of an inch over the next 200 to 300 years."

By Tom Kertscher • November 17, 2022
Facebook posts
stated on July 6, 2022 in a Facebook post:

“Drought is a lie” designed to limit farming, reduce the food supply and ultimately control Americans.

By Madison Czopek • July 19, 2022
Tucker Carlson
stated on December 15, 2019 in an interview with the Atlantic:

Says the Potomac River "has gotten dirtier and dirtier and dirtier and dirtier. I go down there and that litter is left almost exclusively by immigrants."

By Bill McCarthy • December 18, 2019
Jesse Ventura
stated on December 2, 2014 in an interview with Salon.com:

"Fluoride in the water, that was originally done by the Nazis!"

By Louis Jacobson • December 8, 2014
Amardeep Kaleka
stated on October 20, 2013 in an interview:

Wisconsin sold fresh water to California, helping that state's dairy industry, and "lost a bunch of jobs (and) a bunch of farmland."

By Tom Kertscher • October 28, 2013
Helio Melo
stated on June 7, 2012 in a House floor debate:

"People who wash cars at home will use approximately 80 percent more water than they do in a car wash."

By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • July 1, 2012
Critics of water fluoridation
stated on October 4, 2011 in a Pinellas County Commission meeting and web comments:

Say water fluoridation started in Nazi Germany ghettos and death camps to pacify the Jews.

By Becky Bowers • October 6, 2011