Comments on: Cost-effectiveness is what’s key

By: Grant Acosta

Grant Acosta — Sat, 12 Oct 2013 00:36:07 +0000

John, you conveniently omitted the other point Lucas Frerichs made in his argument against water fluoridation. He described his own experience growing up in two different communities – one that did not fluoridate, and one that did. He pointed out that despite adhering to basically the same diet and dental hygiene practice, he got most of his cavities in the fluoridated community. Alan Pryor also provided eye-catching data that revealed communities that have fluoridated water can have much higher rates of dental disease than communities that don’t (SF something like 36% and Davis at 16%). Councilwoman Swanson also alluded to this data. If the science is behind fluoridation, why was no explanation given for this inconsistency in the data???

By: Alan Miller

Alan Miller — Fri, 11 Oct 2013 20:30:16 +0000

There’s a lot of fluoride in the kool-aid John Troidl peddles regularly.

By: jc

jc — Fri, 11 Oct 2013 15:17:50 +0000

You also ignore the fact that, unlike the fluoride cheerleaders, many people oppose using our public water supply as a delivery medium for any unnecessary substances, whether they are deemed “good for us” by some or not. This includes fluoride, vitamins, statins, antidepressants, and any future miracle drugs or supplements that we are told have very few side effects. We want pure as it can be drinking water and nothing more than is required for it to be safe to drink (e.g., chlorine). Please plug that into your “cost-effective analysis.”

By: jc

jc — Fri, 11 Oct 2013 15:14:37 +0000

John Troidl: What effect does fluoride have on aquatic organisms?

By: jc

jc — Fri, 11 Oct 2013 15:13:18 +0000

John Troidl: How many Davis residents are there that don’t already brush with fluoridated toothpaste and that do regularly drink the tap water? How few of these people would there have to be before you would say spending several hundred thousand dollars a year dumping fluoride into the water isn’t worth it?