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PUBLISHED: Friday, November 4, 2005
There's what you know, and there's what you think you know
By ERIC BAERREN
So, where did this fluoride thing start?
Not just in Mt. Pleasant, but overall.
We're not talking about a place so much as a time. And, not so much a time as a frame of mind.
It was 50 years ago, during a kind of golden age, when people had faith that scientists could solve our problems by lifting mankind above the natural world in which it lived. It was when we thought that DDT would rid us of pesky insects, penicillin would banish communicable diseases to the ash heap of extinction and that we'd establish moon colonies so that we could ever expand without worrying about running out of space.
Well, that penicillin thing hasn't worked out
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There's what you know, and there's what you think you know
By ERIC BAERREN
So, where did this fluoride thing start?
Not just in Mt. Pleasant, but overall.
We're not talking about a place so much as a time. And, not so much a time as a frame of mind.
It was 50 years ago, during a kind of golden age, when people had faith that scientists could solve our problems by lifting mankind above the natural world in which it lived. It was when we thought that DDT would rid us of pesky insects, penicillin would banish communicable diseases to the ash heap of extinction and that we'd establish moon colonies so that we could ever expand without worrying about running out of space.
Well, that penicillin thing hasn't worked out
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