FUCKING EXACTLY.
This is all part of the undermining of expertise that has been happening in many aspects of life. When one civil servant schmuck thinks he knows more than generations of public health experts, dentists, scientists, epidemiologists, and mountains of peer-reviewed research, we have a real problem.
The benefits of fluoridated water are on par with vaccination in terms of unequivocal, rock solid, iron clad scientific success. Enormous benefits with extremely low risks. It’s as good as public health gets, and public health is rarely such an easy slam dunk win. Being opposed to it is as exactly as stupid as being opposed to vaccines, which luckily nobody is stupid enoug- holds hand to earpiece …. Never mind. Sigh.
