This was a big deal in the US *fifty years ago*.

Those leading the charge against fluoridation at that time were the John Birch Society, an organization to the far, far right of the Tea Party. The Birchers believed that President Eisenhower was a Soviet agent.

You'd think that any scientific proof that fluoride was a danger would have been universally accepted by now - at least outside of the bottled water industry (whose products, BTW, often turn out to be less pristine than the tap water in big American cities like New York).

It didn't and it hasn't. Scientists and physicians are still confidently drinking the same tap water as the rest of us.

But in the past twenty years, profits to the bottled water industry have gone through the roof. And they will go higher.