As stated above in the original post, fluoridating our drinking water is not at all cost effective. You’re treating an entire water supply wherein the vast majority of it is NOT used for human consumption (quote from above says only about 0.54% is ingested; in other words, for every 100 gallons that goes through a house meter, a little more than half a gallon of that water is consumed). That is an incredibly inefficient delivery system in order to protect someone’s dental health that can be achieved by other cheaper means or methods. In addition to that is the fact that millions of US households have point-of-use filtration systems that remove the fluoride from their drinking water (along with other constituents).

One thing that a lot of people don’t know is that over a hundred years ago fluoride was used as a rat poison. That’s why it’s heavily regulated by the EPA, state, and local public health agencies. There are multiple safeguards employed at water treatment plants to ensure that fluoridation injection systems have safety shut-offs on them in the event of an electrical outage, monitoring system malfunction, or equipment breakdown to prevent an accidental overfeed. But every once in a while an overfeed does occur and people get sick by drinking over-fluoridated water. A few have even died from it.

I think General Ripper was on to something. We just laughed at him because he had a funny name and weird ideas and did stupid shit like launch a nuclear first strike on the Russkies.