Recently there was an editorial piece by the Boston Globe Editorial Board on How we learned to stop worrying and love fluoridated water. This compared anti-fluoridationists to people from the anti-vaccine movement and ended with At a minuscule cost, fluoridation has improved the lives of millions of Americans, and should remain a key part of [...]
I have contacted Associate Professor Rita Barnett-Rose about her unpublished paper “Compulsory water fluoridation: justifiable public health benefit or human experimental research without informed consent” (you can read a copy here: http://works.bepress.com/rita_barnett/3/). It concluded that “The evidence continues to suggest that compulsory water fluoridation is no longer justifiable as a public health benefit” and “human [...]