[Strategerist]

But this is just the tip of the proverbial iceberg. Scientists see water fluoridation, which particularly benefits the poor, as a major public health triumph. But not progressive activists in Portland, Oregon, who fought to prevent the fluoridation of their city’s water supply.

The Jon Birch Society thought fluoridation was a fiendish Commie plot.

Go far enough to the Left and Right and you end up in the same looney-tunes science-hating place.

[USFRIENDINVICTORIA]

If you support fluoridation, what other pharmaceuticals would you support the government adding to your water supply?

[taxcontrol]

Fiendish Flouridators - power 3 / resistance 5 / fanatic

[bump for the card game Illuminati]

[palmer]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OcHNYenN7OY

[dsc]

“Go far enough to the Left and Right and you end up in the same looney-tunes science-hating place.”

A popular notion, but, unfortunately, incorrect.

Firstly, the Birchers were right that a number of fiendish communist plots were in play. They were wrong about fluoride, but that doesn’t mean either that they hated science or that suspicion of fluoridation is particularly right-wing. The original article noted that it is the leftards who are fighting fluoridation in Portland.

Secondly, our Aristotelian model, with the golden mean in the middle and decreasing merit as one proceeds in either direction therefrom, is also incorrect.

The spectrum stretches from God on the right to Satan on the left. There is no “center,” and no one could possibly get far enough to the right.

[GeronL]

If you deny that a baby in the womb is human, then you are a science hater.

[Lurker]

I object to the fluoridation of water because it is a mass medical experiment done without the consent of th subject.

[1010RD]

Excellent and true. Science Left Behind is a very good read.