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How a fluoride conspiracy theorist secretly helped kids get cavities [1]

['Jason Weisberger']

Date: 2022-10-10

The civil servant maintaining the fluoride levels in Richmond, Vermont's water supply was quietly lowering the levels for years as he believed in long-disproven and discredited conspiracy theories. Kendall Chamberlin, Richmond's water and wastewater superintendent, claims to have had the best intentions. Still, every time the State noticed the levels were off and would work with him to bring them back up, it appears he started lowering them again. It sounds as if the city manager did not know what levels to look for in their monthly reports or didn't care and just signed off, trusting the conspiracy theorist.

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