Dave Smith wrote:
>
> On 2013-12-05 5:18 PM, jmcquown wrote:
>
> > You're assuming I *had* science classes when I was in grade school. I
> > don't remember any, but we moved a lot and every school was different.
> > It doesn't matter. I've been drinking fluoridated water all my life.
> > I'm fine. (And no, I don't swallow toothpaste.)
> >
>
> I may have beat you on the shortest stay in a school. We didn't move a
> lot but we did when I was half way through grade nine. I had to a
> school a lot further away because I was taking instrumental music. I
> only went to that school for one day. I opted to take art instead and
> went to the one closer to home.
>
> As for fluoride... they started to fluoridate the water when I was a
> kid. My younger brother and I bother ended up needed veneers due to
> tooth enamel problems. My older brothers did not. They were older when
> the fluoride was introduced. Not getting on a fluoride conspiracy
> thing... just saying....

I never said anything about a conspiracy. Fluoride in the water supply
may have made sense 80 years ago when people couldn't readily get /
afford fluoride toothpaste. Today fluoride toothpaste is readily
available and affordable so there is no longer any justification for
deliberately adding a highly toxic substance to the water supply.