Canada - Why fluoride-phobia refuses to go away
Why fluoride-phobia refuses to go away
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TwitterLinkedInDiggBuzzEmail.Jonathan Kay, National Post ยท Wednesday, Nov. 17, 2010
'My greatest fear here is with the advent of the Internet, and with the advent of social media, that a small vocal minority of individuals who are perhaps misinformed are able to reach a great number of people." So said dentist Harry Hoediono, the incoming head of the Ontario Dental Association, in response to this week's news that Waterloo, Ont.'s council has voted to stop fluoridating the city's water supply.
Dr. Hoediono is correct when he says that anti-fluoridation activists are "misinformed": Fluoride helps protect billions of Canadian teeth -- particularly those owned by poor people who can't afford proper dental care. But it's wrong to suggest that opposition to fluoride is a creature of the Internet. In fact, anti-fluoridation quackery has been with us, in one form or the other, since the early days of the Cold War. And Waterloo is hardly the first town that these quacks have conned...................
Doesn't address any arguments against fluoridation just calls us quacks.
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TwitterLinkedInDiggBuzzEmail.Jonathan Kay, National Post ยท Wednesday, Nov. 17, 2010
'My greatest fear here is with the advent of the Internet, and with the advent of social media, that a small vocal minority of individuals who are perhaps misinformed are able to reach a great number of people." So said dentist Harry Hoediono, the incoming head of the Ontario Dental Association, in response to this week's news that Waterloo, Ont.'s council has voted to stop fluoridating the city's water supply.
Dr. Hoediono is correct when he says that anti-fluoridation activists are "misinformed": Fluoride helps protect billions of Canadian teeth -- particularly those owned by poor people who can't afford proper dental care. But it's wrong to suggest that opposition to fluoride is a creature of the Internet. In fact, anti-fluoridation quackery has been with us, in one form or the other, since the early days of the Cold War. And Waterloo is hardly the first town that these quacks have conned...................
Doesn't address any arguments against fluoridation just calls us quacks.
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