Latest Link: Hartland Township Trustees Lampooned Over Ending Water Fluoridation
Trustee leading charge to stop the practice said column that references 1964 comedy 'Dr. Strangelove' and the John Birch Society was funny.
The Hartland Township Board is the subject of an MLive.com column that satirizes its vote this week to stop adding fluoride to the township's drinking water. The column by Jeff T. Wattrick writes the trustees "have thwarted a communist plot to sap and impurify the Livingston County community’s precious bodily fluids with their fluoridated water." This seems to compare board members to Gen. Jack T. Ripper of the 1964 political satire Dr. Strangelove — whose famous YouTube clip on the subject is included (here, too). Trustee Glenn Harper, who spearheaded efforts to stop adding fluoride, said "he got a real good chuckle out of it." "Dr. Strangelove is one of my favorite movies," he said, although he added he hadn't thought about the …
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Paul Connett
7:59 am on Saturday, December 24, 2011
Rather than resolving the water fluoridation issue based upon a movie made in 1964, how about doing so using a book written in 2010? Since I co-authored this text, "The Case Against Fluoride" (Chelsea Green), with two other scientists I have been waiting for a scientific response from fluoridation promoters. After 14 months there has been none. Instead we get treated to rants about Dr. … more ›