[chyk]

The CDC lists water fluoridation as one of the top 10 public health measures of the twentieth century - all the others, mostly vaccinations are required. Soon we may be required to do others - like smallpox. The government regulates every part of our lives and picks our pockets besides - and people are still quibbling about less than 1 ppm Fl in the drinking water that will save society and individuals billions of dollars, not to mention save millions of kids(who have no control of their circumstances) from disease, disfigurement, disability, and pain. Fluoridation actually gives kids freedom from all of these - it doesn't take it away. It also frees kids in the future from seeking government or corporate handouts to fix their teeth.

But I know it also softens brains. And the proof is all around us.

[mlmr]

But this is a government handout. And exactly where are you getting the information that children without floridated water are disfigured, diseased, disabled or in pain? There is a huge difference between inoculating the herd against communicable diseases, and forcing everyone to ingest a substance "for their own good."

[Cicero]

I think we owe the improved state of our teeth to flouridation, and the softening of our brains to Hollywood.