Light on Muddied Waters

with that of the author, none of the several books Mr. Burlingame might have written could conceivably have been worth writing, and the last only because of the sentimental interest it will hold for his great-grandchildren, who like all great-grandchildren will finally get around to asking: “What kind of man was great-grandpa ? “

If this book did nothing more than provide opponents of fluoridation with sensible and well documented arguments against fluoridation of municipal water supplies, it would perform a signal service. But The American Fluoridation Experiment transcends the issue itself in the devastating indictment it draws against officials of the Public Health Service who have abandoned scientific objectivity in a crusading zeal to “put over” fluoridation on the American people. “It is the first time,” writes James Rorty in the introduction, “that public health officials have deliberately falsified, distorted and suppressed evidence tending to impugn the safety of a public health measure.” And Doctors Exner and Waldbott proceed to nail down that statement in lucid and scholarly fashion.

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Priscilla L. Buckley

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with that of the author, none of the several books Mr. Burlingame might have written could conceivably have been worth writing, and the last only because of the sentimental interest it will hold for his great-grandchildren, who like all great-grandchildren will finally get around to asking: “What kind of man was great-grandpa ? “

If this book did nothing more than provide opponents of fluoridation with sensible and well documented arguments against fluoridation of municipal water supplies, it would perform a signal service. But The American Fluoridation Experiment transcends the issue itself in the devastating indictment it draws against officials of the Public Health Service who have abandoned scientific objectivity in a crusading zeal to “put over” fluoridation on the American people. “It is the first time,” writes James Rorty in the introduction, “that public health officials have deliberately falsified, distorted and suppressed evidence tending to impugn the safety of a public health measure.” And Doctors Exner and Waldbott proceed to nail down that statement in lucid and scholarly fashion.