THE CASE AGAINST FLUORIDE

THE CASE AGAINST FLUORIDE: how hazardous waste ended up in
our drinking water and the bad science and powerful politics
that keep it there*
By Paul Connett,a James Beck,b and H Spedding Micklemc
Reviewed by C Vyvyan Howardd
University of Ulster, Coleraine, UK
SUMMARY: A review of The case against fluoride: how
hazardous waste ended up in our drinking water and the
bad science and powerful politics that keep it there by
Connett P, Beck J, and Micklem HS summarises the
historical, political, ethical, toxicological, and
epidemiological scientific data behind drinking water
fluoridation. The book concludes that, if proposed
today, fluoridation of drinking water to prevent tooth
decay would stand virtually no chance of being
adopted, given the current status of scientific
knowledge