You would do yourself and your readers a greater service by doing your homework. You might want to start with medical writer Joel Griffiths and then check out Christopher Bryson. You will discover, as other investigative journalists have, that the fluoride issue is a huge cover-up that goes all the way back to workers on the Manhattan Project and involves players like Robert A. Kehoe, director of Kettering Labs. Dr. Kehoe was the leading defender in the US of the "safety" of leaded gasoline. He also defended fluoride on behalf of DuPont, Alcoa and U.S. Steel, companies who have all faced lawsuits for industrial fluoride pollution. The attorneys for these corporations, which included Reynolds Metals and Monsanto, formed the Fluorine Lawyers Committee. Those corporations funded the fluoride research at Kettering which included human experiments on African American lab workers in the years following World War II. A brilliant Harvard toxicologist, Phillis Mullenix, finally published her fluoride research in 1994. After testing and re-testing over 500 rats at fluoride intake levels equivalent to those of high water drinkers such as athletes and dialysis patients, she discovered that fluoride is a neurotoxin. Pregnant rats who drank the fluoridated water gave birth to hyperactive babies and those offspring gave birth to babies exhibiting mental retardation. She was promptly fired from her position at Forsyth Labs and her research which represented a major breakthrough was immediately defunded.