Re: Depression (NBC)

On Jan 28, 5:10 pm, Evolution <myn...@xxxxxxx> wrote:

Did your children have an underdeveloped palate or need braces or have
undescended teeth?  White mottling?  Broken bones?

There's a point, Laurie, where you do well to save yourself by writing
less. When you start giving off the appearance of attributing
children's needs for braces or broken bones to fluoridation, you give
off the impression of having departed from reality.

"    According to the current consensus view of the dental research community, fluoride's primary - if
not sole - benefit to teeth comes from topical application to the surfaces of teeth (while in the mouth),
and not from ingestion.

And yet the American Dental Association, which presumably includes the
US-based dental research community, has the following position
statement: "The American Dental Association unreservedly endorses the
fluoridation of community water supplies as safe, effective and
necessary in preventing tooth decay. This support has been the
Association's position since policy was first adopted in 1950."

I googled "dental research community on fluoridation of water," a
phrase that I'd expect to be reasonably neutral wrt results. I
immediately found a boatload of links to various research efforts on
the topic; the entire first page, including several state studies, a
report from the Surgeon General, the CDC and others all disagree with
your "consensus" view; this leads me to believe that your consensus is
no consensus at all, but just another position overstatement.

I don't want to trivialize the information you're trying to bring to
this board. But really, you do yourself -- and your position -- no
favors at all by continually overstating and misstating the case.

.

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