{"id":64920,"date":"2026-05-22T16:30:02","date_gmt":"2026-05-22T20:30:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/?p=64920"},"modified":"2026-05-22T16:31:12","modified_gmt":"2026-05-22T20:31:12","slug":"breaking-federal-court-strikes-down-landmark-fluoride-ruling-on-technicality-not-the-science","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/?p=64920","title":{"rendered":"<h2>Breaking: Federal Court Strikes Down Landmark Fluoride Ruling on Technicality \u2014 \u2018Not the Science\u2019<\/h2>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/childrenshealthdefense.org\/defender\/breaking-federal-court-strikes-down-landmark-fluoride-ruling-on-technicality-not-science\/\">READ HERE<\/a>:<\/strong> Citing a procedural question, a federal appeals court has vacated a landmark decision that found fluoridated drinking water poses an \u201cunreasonable risk\u201d to children\u2019s health. The court sent the case back to the district judge and ordered him to ignore any scientific evidence uncovered after 2020. Attorney Michael Connett told The Defender the court instructed the judge \u201cto travel back in time to 2020 and make this ruling based on a stale factual record.\u201d<\/h3>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64920","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64920","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=64920"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64920\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64922,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64920\/revisions\/64922"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}