Someone With A Brain Wrote:
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> You're about, what, 50 years late on this? If
> fluoride had all the bad effects the know-nothings
> claim, we'd have evidence of that by now. That's,
> like, science.
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> The debate over whether it should be optional or
> not is valid; the debate over whether it's
> efficacious is not. You're entitled to your own
> opinion, but not to your own facts.
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> In any case, a gummint initiative to do something
> that scientists universally agree is beneficial is
> hardly groundbreaking or unheard of.
>
> Of course, Liberarians will disagree; but they'd
> also support universal private firemen, police,
> and roads. That's not what most people call
> "society".
They're nutty, but you're equally dumb in your own way as is typical for know-it-alls like yourself.
Fact is that there are a number of uncertainties and scientific disagreement regarding various aspects of fluoride and levels of exposure as are reflected in EPA's reassessment done as recently as 2011 and NRC's review in 2006:
http://water.epa.gov/action/advisories/drinking/fluoride_index.cfm
http://www.actionpa.org/fluoride/nrc/NRC-2006.pdf
Strange that NRC would have recommended revisiting the matter given more recent information and models and that EPA would concede that further research is needed in various areas since we know everything already and scientists "universally agree" huh? lol
Virtually nobody questions that fluoride is effective re cavity prevention. Some reasonable people do question (and EPA in fact enforceably limits) levels of exposure and longer-term effects and some have issues around the "gummint" forcing indiscriminate consumption of something which can be otherwise easily provided more selectively in other ways. You don't have to be a conspiracy theorist to understand that there are many things that we did for a long time that we've since reconsidered as more information became available. Which is why, as above, a whole bunch of scientists and regulators thought it worthwhile to reassess fluoride and continue to review various aspects of fluoridation and related health effects. That's, like, science...
Does stuff like this bring out the whack jobs? Absolutely. But people like you really aren't much better than them. You also likely believe that scientists "universally agree" re all aspects of climate change as well. lol