Do you drink tap water? Ever wonder what’s in it? I have, so over the summer I went to the St Paul Water Utility and received an education in how water is taken from the Mississippi River and processed into St Paul’s tap water. St Paul spends $120,000 a year adding fluorosilicic acid (fluoride) to the water supply. They do this to comply with what has been public policy in the U.S. since 1962.

In June of this year, the Cochrane Collaboration published a report stating their findings by reviewing all available studies on water fluoridation. As reported by Newsweek on 29 June 2015, they found very little reliable evidence to support water fluoridation. In fact, the researchers suggested that if water fluoridation were suggested as public policy today, it would most certainly fail.