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

[JackRiddler]

92. The question is answered.

1) There is sufficient doubt of the dental health effects and these are acknowledged - even by advocates when they're being serious - as so moderate and undefinitive as to cause most countries where policy is driven by science (as in northern and central Europe) to avoid experimenting on the whole population by artificial fluoridation of drinking water. The bulk of science and health policy consensus outside the Anglosphere uncontroversially holds that "when in doubt, leave it out." (If you want to argue otherwise, show me the millions of toothless Germans.)

2) Fluoridation historically came into practice as the result of a PR campaign to rebrand an industrial pollutant as a health benefit, financed by ALCOA and the Mellon fortune.

I acknowledge that the question has been answered. You happen to acknowledge the wrong answer. Thanks for playing.