Deliverance
Fluoride in drinking water used to be a triumph of dull science: fluoride in water, fewer cavities, end of story.
It was originally ‘discovered’ by dentists who tracked down the natural fluoride in local mineral water that caused whole communities in Italy and the USA to have unusually great teeth.
Now Queensland councils are proudly voting it out of existence. Except of course where it is delivered free of charge by nature in the great artesian basin.
The reasoning isn’t about microbiology; it’s about trust and cost.
Science has spent decades perverting itself for grants, headlines, and sponsorships. Business has also co-opted science to sell everything from insurance to Barbie dolls and state lotteries. Now when science is argued, hardly anyone listens.
The education system doesn’t help, we’ve raised generations fluent in “curiosity” and confident illiterate bullshit but with absolutely no ability to assess disparate arguments.
The irony is that the councils ditching fluoride are the ones where the residents need it the most. So, there’s some justice in the world.
You get what you vote for…
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