Sign up to get free environmental news updates by email. It prevents millions of children from getting cavities. People who oppose it are hysterical know-nothings. We budding chemists absorbed both the specific lesson and the general lesson. Fluoride is good.
Scientists know best.
I was taught that she was hysterical too. However, as I read more widely and went beyond chemistry to ecology, I decided she was right. While I continued to respect science greatly, I came to see that some scientists can be hasty in judgment, narrow in understanding, out of date, or more loyal to their ideology or source of income than to the truth. But I didn't question fluoride. The consensus was strong.