Something I knew I would see in quick order when I saw the Portland Mercury’s cover — blurbing why the Sane Opposition Against Water Fluoridation is Wrong, or some such phrasing…

… the Anti-Fluoridation crowd would stick their literature into the boxes.

And so it is.  Interesting, they haven’t done so with the Willamette Week boxes.  Which has the same editorial position for water fluoridation.  But the cover is of “Best New Band”…

A curious thing.  A couple of the reasonings against water fluoridation — inherent in the campaign slogan “Fluoridation Chemicals” — are just kind of obnoxious.  As in — if I go ahead and sympathize with their cause, the reasons would not be “chemicals in the pure water” — which seems to suggest this pure water where the city can just nab pristine water and out of the tap comes one parts H and 2 parts O that has never touched anything between there and here.  The other line lands about where climate change skeptisim and tobacco industry hacks always land: “science divided”.

Of course, there is a line of logic in the Willamette Week’s editorial which is faulty.  Skip to the part about the association of dentists, if they were going on their material interests, would be against water fluoridation.  There’s an interesting “can have it both ways” on the matter — hypothetically, if the national association of dentists or whatever the umbrella group was came out against water fluoridation — um… one could claim they had material interest to do so, and throw away whatever principled opposition by way of the alternative science divided being delivered?  No, that whole part of the column throws me for a loop.

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