I don't want to get into a lengthy defense of using fluoride in water. There is a lot of good, scientific information on the American Dental Association website at:
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In Europe, some of the countries fluoridate table salt instead of fluoridating water.
It is important to understand that all naturally occurring water contains fluoride.
Much of the information, especially the alarming and sensational information pushed by the anti-fluoride movement on the web, is unscientific and bogus. Some of it is even crazy like trying to link water fluoridation to the Manhattan Project that gave the U.S. the atomic bomb during World War II. (As in the book "The Fluoride Deception.")
I believe that the Honolulu City Council bought a lot of unscientific baloney when they made their decision to ban fluoride on Oahu in 2004. The Hawaii Dental Association was not effective in presenting the benefits and safety of water fluoridation or in refuting unscientific claims.
Unfortunately, I was not at the hearings and wasn't able to hear and see what the public health defenders (Hawaii Dental Association and the Hawaii State Department of Health Dental Division) presented.
The important thing is that this is another hidden political issue that the Science of Identity Foundation cult is organizing around. As in their other political activity, there is a good chance that they are illegally using tax-exempt money to do it.
It appears to me that successfully banning fluoride on Oahu pushes the cult's beliefs about karma and reincarnation and tooth decay and their religious teachings and values in these areas on everyone.
There is deception at work in their efforts because they claim that they are just fighting for "pure water," but they are really trying to impose their religious beliefs on society at large.
The anti fluoride movement began as a fringe movement, originally coming from groups like the John Birch Society. I guess it makes sense that a secretive fringe group like the Science of Identity Foundation would be heavily involved in this issue in Hawaii.