Confidently Clueless: "The propaganda you push is so dangerous, especially to children. I can’t wait for this reign of harmful terror to be over. Fluoride!"
These legislative losses illuminate where ignorance still lingers.
Informed consent is a foundational principle of medical and research ethics. Among the most influential statements on this standard is the Nuremberg Code, which opens with a clear directive:
“The voluntary consent of the human subject is absolutely essential.”
Informed consent is an incredibly simple concept: a patient is provided with the relevant information about a medical intervention or research study, essentially the risks and benefits, and are afforded the freedom to accept—or not. If any element of coercion or deceit is used to influence the patient’s medical decision making process it becomes a human rights violation. In Louisiana, physicians and dentists are required to provide informed consent for medical and dental treatments—meaning it is illegal to treat a patient without their consent.
The underlying theme of HFL’s 2025 Legislative Agenda is informed consent. Whether it’s in our air, food, water, and medicines—Louisianans have a right to be informed of—and decline—the use of chemicals in, on, or around their bodies that will impact their health.
The failure of HB555, SB2, and HB419 to advance is deeply troubling—not just for the loss of sound policy, but for what it reveals: a legislature unwilling to uphold the core principle of informed consent.
Let’s discuss HB555 first.
Representative Beryl Amedee’s presented HB555 to a House Health and Welfare committee that still clings to the idea that people—including healthcare professionals—should not have control of what is put on or in their bodies. HB555 took language from more stringent laws that are already enacted in Florida and Idaho, yet committee members thought it was too stifling for Louisiana. Amazingly, some committee members still believe a surgical mask can stop the spread of respiratory illness.
We see areas where we need to educate the legislature and the healthcare community, especially on masks. There are provisions in the bill for the appropriate use of masks, those recognized by industry standards. No industry standard recognizes masking for the prevention or transmission of a respiratory virus.
If the House Health and Welfare Committee failed to appreciate informed consent with HB555, they demonstrated outright contempt for it with Senator Fesi’s SB2.
The loss of SB2 was a horrendous blow to health freedom and informed consent. The bill was a common-sense correction—end the addition of hazardous waste to our water supply under the guise of dental health. Fluoride is the snake oil of our time.
Louisiana Surgeon General, Dr. Ralph Abraham, testified in support of the legislation in both the House and Senate, pointing to recent studies indicating lowered IQ following consumption of fluoride. Two of the studies—one from Tulane University in 2023 and another published in JAMA in 2025—link ingested fluoride to reduced IQ. But cognitive impact is just one concern; the systemic health risks of fluoride ingestion are extensive and may well be reflected in the chronic disease epidemic our nation currently faces.
One of the more disturbing facts about the addition of fluoride to public water systems to prevent tooth decay, which fits the description of a drug, is that ingested fluoride has NEVER been FDA approved as a drug. Despite repeated claims of “safe and effective” by dentists, physicians, and professional organizations who attended the hearing, the industrial waste by-products known as silicofluorides—specifically hydrofluorosilicic acid and sodium fluorosilicate—routinely added to Louisiana’s public water systems have never undergone the clinical testing required for FDA approval as a drug.
Additionally, as reported by Fluoride Action Network:
“After a precedent-setting 7-year legal battle in federal court, an historic ruling by the United States District Court of the Northern District of California has ordered the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to take regulatory action to eliminate the “unreasonable risk” to the health of children posed by the practice of water fluoridation.
The verdict is a significant loss for the EPA and the promoters of fluoridation like the American Dental Association and the US Centers For Disease Control because the court found that their claims of safety–made for over 75 years–were in fact not supported by evidence.
Senior Judge Edward Chen wrote:
“The Court finds that fluoridation of water at 0.7 milligrams per liter (“mg/L”) – the level presently considered “optimal” in the United States – poses an unreasonable risk of reduced IQ in children…the Court finds there is an unreasonable risk of such injury, a risk sufficient to require the EPA to engage with a regulatory response.”
“In all, there is substantial and scientifically credible evidence establishing that fluoride poses a risk to human health; it is associated with a reduction in the IQ of children and is hazardous at dosages that are far too close to fluoride levels in the drinking water of the United States…Reduced IQ poses serious harm. Studies have linked IQ decrements of even one or two points to, e.g., reduced educational attainment, employment status, productivity, and earned wages.”
The ruling did not specify exactly what measures must be adopted by the EPA, but under the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA), once the court rules that a chemical poses an unreasonable risk, the EPA is obligated by law to restrict or eliminate the risk.
Judge Chen described a range of options for regulating fluoridation, including banning it, but he warned:
“One thing the EPA cannot do, however, in the face of this Court’s finding, is to ignore that risk.”
Informed Consent Be Damned: Legislators Vote to Medicate the Public
At the heart of the SB2 vote lies a troubling reality: the committee prioritized outdated dogma over bodily autonomy, effectively voting to medicate the public without informed consent. Despite testimony from Senator Mike Fesi and Surgeon General Abraham specifically pointing to the health risks associated with public water fluoridation, the committee voted to continue to put a non-FDA approved chemical in the drinking water of millions of Louisianans.
Who voted to kill SB2?
Chairman Dustin Miller (D), Berault (R), Butler (R), Chaisson (D), Chenevert (R), Fisher (D), Hughes (D), Jackson (D), McMahon (R), Stagni (R) voted to kill SB2.
These five Republicans have our thanks for voting for SB2:
Crews, Dickerson, Echols, Egan, and Turner voted FOR SB2.
Following the vote, HFL Co-Director Jill Hines sent the following email to the entire legislature with the hope of getting SB2 discharged from the committee and heard on the House floor:
On Wednesday, May 28th, the House Health and Welfare Committee voted to involuntarily defer SB2, introduced by Senators Fesi and McMath. This vote enables the state to continue to forcibly medicate Louisianans with an unapproved “drug”—a form of fluoride primarily derived from fertilizer industry waste.
I write to request that SB2 be discharged from House Health and Welfare. It is a disgrace that Louisiana ever considered forced medicating its citizens as a viable public health policy, especially in light of the horrific historical events that led to the creation of human rights treaties like the Nuremberg Code and the Universal Declaration on Bioethics and Human Rights.
“It’s for their good” has always been the tyrant’s excuse for trampling human rights, and yet that excuse was repeatedly used to justify the vote on SB2 in House Health and Welfare.
Please find below a letter to the editor published in the Wall Street Journal on May 29, 2025:
A Dentist’s Perspective on Water Fluoridation
I am a pediatric dental specialist who respects fluoride’s historical role in advancing public oral health but who now questions the appropriateness of systemic fluoridation in contemporary clinical practice (“The Folly of Investigating Fluoride Tooth--paste,” Letters, May 20). The publichealth rationale for fluoridating municipal water was compelling in the mid-20th century, when alternative methods of delivery were limited. That’s no longer the case. Children now routinely receive fluoride through toothpastes and professionally administered topical treatments— interventions that are effective, safe and tailored to individuals without systemic exposure.
Systemic fluoride, however, enters the circulatory system and accumulates in osseous tissue. An expanding body of research has associated chronic ingestion with skeletal fluorosis, diminished bone resilience and elevated fracture risk. These findings are no longer theoretical abstractions: Geriatric and adolescent fracture rates are surging, and orthopedic practices in numerous regions have reported exponential growth, suggesting a possible link to cumulative fluoride burden.
Moreover, the practice of delivering a pharmacologically active agent via the public water supply—without regard to age, weight, medical history or informed consent—is incongruent with modern standards of ethical, patient- centered care. It is time to re-examine outdated public-health dogmas. Fluoride remains a valuable tool but one best employed through targeted, evidence-based delivery that maximizes benefit while minimizing systemic risk.
PARNEET SINGH SOHI, D.D.S., M.S.
Cincinnati
I respectfully request that SB2 be discharged from House Health and Welfare, where it can receive a vote of the full House of Representatives of the State of Louisiana.
The only reply was from Representative Mandie Landry who wrote:
“The propaganda you push is so dangerous, especially to children. I can’t wait for this reign of harmful terror to be over. Fluoride!”
It is incredibly troubling that dentists, physicians, and professional medical organizations convinced a legislative body to vote to medicate Louisiana citizens without their consent. Legally, none of these healthcare professionals could medicate a patient without consent without facing significant consequences. It’s also deeply disturbing that our pointed efforts to stop this human rights violation is portrayed as a “reign of harmful terror.”
Rep. Amedee’s HB419 would have made it a felony to intentionally release an engineered, self spreading pathogen in Louisiana. Undoubtedly, this was a new topic for the Committee on Criminal Justice. The idea of a “self-spreading” pathogen, especially in the form of a vaccine, is not well-known even though studies are underway to create those products.
Self-spreading pathogens—engineered viruses or bacteria designed to replicate and transmit through populations—present an unprecedented bioethical and biosecurity risk. Unlike traditional medical interventions, these pathogens have the potential to bypass individual choice entirely as they move throughout populations.
It has been noted that these self-spreading technologies are intended to “solve” the problem of non-compliance or poor adherence to public health recommendations—bypassing informed consent.
That is not medicine—it’s assault.
This bill failed, only receiving two votes, again indicating to us that people are not well informed on the issue of informed consent.
What other bills failed to pass?
Unfortunately, Representative Chenevert’s HB400 was amended to the point that it became a threat to Louisiana families. With “in loco parentis, formally and informally” added to the list of people who could seek medical and mental health care for minors, any teacher—or anyone for that matter—could legally get any healthcare for any minor in their care.
The National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act (NCVIA) stipulates that a parent or legal guardian as defined by the states must receive a Vaccine Information Sheet prior to the administration of a vaccine. If HB400 had successfully redefined which adults could seek medical treatment for a child to include in loco parentis, any teacher, grandparent, camp counselor, babysitter, you name it, could take a child and get them vaccinated - or any other medical treatment.
HB400 also lowered the established age of majority for medical consent from 18 to 17, and shielded healthcare professionals from civil and criminal liability.
The loopholes in Louisiana’s medical consent laws need to be closed—hopefully we can get that done next year.
Representative Kimberly Coates’ HB150, the Louisiana Food Freedom Act, simply ran out of time. This was a short session so in many ways getting a bill passed was a race against the clock and HB150 ran out of time.
Rep. Coates’ HB608, the Atmospheric Protection Act, was an ambitious, comprehensive bill encompassing not only geoengineering but it addressed pollution from electromagnetic radiation, as well. HB608 was eventually amended to include only weather modification. We heard from legislators that it was too similar to SB46 by Senator Fesi, a bill that had already passed.
We hope to see both of these bills again in the future.
Because of the time constraints of the session, Representative Jay Gallé did not have the opportunity to present HB629. We look forward to seeing this bill from Rep. Gallé next year!
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