So many times during Portland's idiotic fluoridation debate, so many made the fundamental error of not understanding the dictum "the dose makes the poison". Repeatedly, without fail, studies were flung into the debate testing dosage levels far above any normal intake and showing detrimental effects. Studies (I'm mostly referring to the NAS 2006 meta-study because it was the most cited one) where rats were given human lethal levels of fluoride and obviously, the rat's bodies began to shut down. Because of Portland's near-universal lack of scientific literacy, they extrapolated high dose effects to low dose effects and were completely unable to critically analyze scientific data. If only I had a portable sound system and projector to constantly project this TED talk at the anti-fluoridation rallies.
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