13 July

Such a confused topic. It's irrelevant whether fluoride helps teeth or not, the much bigger question is adding something to everybody's water supply. There are all sorts of deficiencies in the community that could be 'fixed' in the same way, but usually we don't think the solution there is to dump stuff into the water supply. Also if sugar is one of the main culprits, we always had the option of seriously attacking sugar consumption, before we took the pretty drastic step of dumping something into everybody's water to counter some peoples' over-consumption of sugar. I just don't think a measure like this would ever be approved again, it came at a time when people were more likely to take simplistic solutions to difficult problems.