{"id":2174,"date":"2026-04-13T19:12:52","date_gmt":"2026-04-13T19:12:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/masspectrum.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/13\/fluoride-in-u-s-drinking-water-does-not-reduce-iq-a-new-study-finds\/"},"modified":"2026-04-13T19:12:52","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T19:12:52","slug":"fluoride-in-u-s-drinking-water-does-not-reduce-iq-a-new-study-finds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/masspectrum.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/13\/fluoride-in-u-s-drinking-water-does-not-reduce-iq-a-new-study-finds\/","title":{"rendered":"Fluoride in U.S. drinking water does not reduce IQ, a new study finds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Claims that fluoride in drinking water causes cognitive delays in kids are driving U.S. policy. A new study finds no evidence to back them.\u200bClaims that fluoride in drinking water causes cognitive delays in kids are driving U.S. policy. A new study finds no evidence to back them.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencenews.org\/article\/fluoride-drinking-water-iq-no-evidence\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Claims that fluoride in drinking water causes cognitive delays in kids are driving U.S. policy. A new study finds no evidence to back them.\u200bClaims that fluoride in drinking water causes cognitive delays in kids are driving U.S. policy. A new study finds no evidence to back them.\u00a0Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2175,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health-medicine"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/masspectrum.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2174","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/masspectrum.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/masspectrum.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masspectrum.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masspectrum.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2174"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/masspectrum.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2174\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masspectrum.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2175"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/masspectrum.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masspectrum.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masspectrum.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}