Because fluoride reduces numbers of teeth cavities does not mean fluoride is good for overall human health. Health authorities need to spell this out.
Physicist Fritjof Capra, and others before him, warned in the 1980s that science was at risk of misinterpretation by being compartmentalised or reductionist. An example of reductionism operating in the discussion of human health and tooth cavities is that the Australian Aborigines and other tribal people worldwide, at first contact, generally had healthier teeth than western people. The fluoride debate is therefore not just about the risk of adding another poison to the water supply; it is about the extent to which humans are refusing to eat foods suited to human health.
Excessive animal proteins, excessive grains that are primarily acidic in the body, and de-natured, processed foods, which is a lot of what western-culture people eat, can be reasonably considered to reflect in tooth decay.
It is science that has contributed to the production of fluoride in quantity, and to recognition that fluoride reduces dental caries. However, it is superstition that thinks it reasonable to excessively eat foods not ideal for humans, then dose with fluoride in a piecemeal (non-holistic) attempt to fix symptoms of deteriorated health.
Geoff Dawe, Uki
There are no good quality studies which indicate that the forced-fluoridation experiment reduces numbers of dental cavities. The following are some good sources of information: the Fluoride Action Network website, Declan Waugh’s work, the books The Case Against Fluoride and The Fluoride Deception, the 2006 US National Research Council report Fluoride in Drinking Water: A Scientific Review of EPA’s Standards, and the peer-reviewed journal Fluoride.
http://www.fluoridealert.org/
http://ffwireland.blogspot.com.au/
http://www.enviro.ie/downloads.html
http://www.scribd.com/doc/121795065/Christopher-Bryson-The-Fluoride-Deception
http://www.nap.edu/catalog.php?record_id=11571
http://www.fluorideresearch.org/