Can we have a civilized talk about the U.S. water fluoridation industry?

[JackRiddler]

32. It's totemic.

We spool some fluorides into the water, cite an interpretative study showing this correlates with a difference almost within the error margin and no way to separate out the factors and prove direct effects, and praise ourselves for having done something for poor children! Meanwhile non-fluoridation countries have the same levels of dental health or better.

There are many "other things we should be doing that would probably have a greater impact," as you say. But oh no, the poor children would actually be visible as beneficiaries, can't have that in an America crazed with preventing the poor from receiving benefits no matter how small. Easier to add fluoride, feel good. Done. "Realism."

At best it's poorly spent money, and why? Because a corporate cartel benefits. Pollutants are redefined as medicine they can sell to cities.