Observations of the content in the article “ Water Fluoridation ” in Wikipedia , 16 Mar 2010

I found that reading this article and many of the references cited gave me a good overview of the history and scope of the controversy surrounding water fluoridation. Overall, the article has a moderate majority of cited material that is pro-fluoridation. However, many references are anti-fluoridation. The tone of most of the article is that the quality of the supporting information on both sides of the issue is of modest quality, at best. A more robust anti-fluoridation discussion can be found in Wikipedia at the article entitled ―Opposition to Water Fluoridation‖. Neither of these articles is going to unambiguously answer the question of the wisdom and desirability of fluoridation of public drinking water supplies. I have attempted to present some of the salient points in each of the dozen or so sections of this article. In some cases, I have attempted to summarize. In other cases, I have copied and pasted the most compelling discussion points.