"Jonathan Kay: Why fluoride-phobia refuses to go away"
"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, Ontario’s council, has voted to stop fluoridating the city’s water supply.
But it’s wrong to suggest that this phenomenon is a creature of the Internet. In fact, anti-fluoridation quackery has been with us, in one form of the other, since the early days of the Cold War. And Waterloo, Ont. is hardly the first town that these quacks have conned.
Some activists are homeopaths. Others are members of Christian sects that believe fluoride to be a forbidden “medication.”
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