Your quackwatch article is 10 years old. Loses its "quackness" if that's the most recent scaremongering you can find.
FWIW, that "scaremongering" kind of stuff is more for the Oprah show than for this forum. Most FR peeps are pretty savvy and do their own research into stuff....do you really care if they use herbal drops with success? Do you really believe the government would not steer the masses wrong? Do you really see a problem with people choosing to disagree with crap being ADDED to our drinking water?
“do you really care if they use herbal drops with success?”
Of course not. I care that they LIBEL people - researchers/dentists and politicians - as doing something “evil” by adding a tiny bit of some chemical (ALL things are chemicals, BTW) to their water. I care that they pass themselves off as knowing all about this stuff as if they are experts, yet don’t use any common sense. I don’t see people dropping dead all around us.
“Do you really believe the government would not steer the masses wrong?”
I believe we have to be wary of gov, but I don’t think by and large it is “evil”, per se - we have not reached that point. Stupid, often, yes, and pointless. I don’t like them telling me I can’t buy a nice big toilet or a normal old-fashioned light bulb, which we all know work perfectly well. In those cases, they’re trying to help “the Environment”, NOT the People. Which doesn’t matter.
“Do you really see a problem with people choosing to disagree with crap being ADDED to our drinking water?”
See above. Public health things have been happening a long time, and by and large it’s been a benefit. I just don’t like people disparaging whole swaths of learned people on a subject they frankly, know next to nothing about. It’s a joke to compare Joe Schmoe knowing squat about Fl to Dr. Dentist. Which in fact is how this whole thing started - not because of some Democrat wag.