UK - Fluoride: let's wait for the unemotive facts

Fluoride: let's wait for the unemotive facts
Date: 16 September 2009
Albert Road
Sowerby Bridge
I READ in the Courier, September 4, that Coun Craig Whittaker has started a petition against fluoridation of our water supply.

I'm an unqualified layperson regarding the chemistry and biology of fluoride, as will be Joe Public signing this petition, so it's bound to be an emotional not factual petition.
I became suspicious when unqualified self-appointed "expert" anti-fluoride campaigners use emotive language that fluoridation is mass medication. It's not. You only take medicine to cure an already acquired illness. You don't take asprins every day to prevent you getting a headache.
I become even more suspicious when the anti-fluoride campaigners claims become so exaggerated that they contradict themselves. As Barbara Sutcliffe pointed out in her excellent letter ("Your say," September 1). Dennis Edmondson has claimed that fluoride kills plants, and is in the fruit and vegetables we buy; miraculously without having killed them! If the case against fluoride is so strong, why resort to such exaggeration and emotive language?
Let's therefore wait for the NHS Calderdale study into fluoridation, to be completed in spring 2010, for factual not emotional advice, instead of an emotive petition now by uninformed people.
George Simpson

Of course those for fluoride will never use emotive arguments!


Two films taken during the Southampton consultation one of Prof Connett and for a very unbiased Stephen Peckham presentaion