Lets get ready to RUMBLE

Hello and welcome to a much awaited blog post, a blog post pitting a water fluoridation enthusiast against a water fluoridation opposition. We’ll call this blog post ‘Rumble in the Water System’ (I feel like only boxing enthusiasts will get that one).  Both have heavy weight arguments in this controversial topic. In the anti-corner we have Barry Groves wearing the scholarly work ‘Fluoride: Drinking Ourselves to Death?: The Scientific Argument Against Water Fluoridation’ and in the black corner we have Bernard Turnock wearing the scholarly work ‘Public Health: What It Is and How It Works’.

Groves, from the anti-corner, comes out strong with an immediate heavy right hook arguing that the problem with fluoridated water does not come from the consuming of drinking water containing fluoride but instead the extra absorption from bathing and consumption of beverages and food created using fluoridated water (Groves, 2001). He follows this up with a speedy one-two combo referring to Dr Julian Andelman, a professor of water chemistry, who found that more fluoride is absorbed through showering and the washing of clothes than through drinking it (Groves, 2001). He backs this one-two combo up with a body shot stating that the US EPA have found similar results but have not commissioned a published study (Groves, 2001). The bell rings and the first round is over, a solid first round performance from the anti-corner (Groves, 2001). Barry Groves is obviously fighting for the anti-corner with a belief that the extra absorption of fluoride through other means rather than just drinking the water is a problem greatly overlooked and damaging to health.

Turnock, from the pro-corner, comes out to begin the second quarter with a strong bolo punch arguing that fluoridated water positively affects those of lower socioeconomic statuses (Turnock, 2009). He follows this up with a check hook stating that people with a low socioeconomic statuses benefit from having to pay less dental care services with fluoridated water. He counters the argument that some communities get enough fluoride through consuming beverages and foods created in pro fluoride communities with a quick jab arguing that people of the poorer classes do not consume as much of those products as people from the middle class due to having less money. He was stunned by a counter argument but came back strong in the second half of the round. He obviously views fluoridation of water as a pro due to the positive affects on those who are less well off economically.

This one is to tough to call we'll have to go to the judges on this one (the judges are you guys, there weren't actually people judging these arguments).

Groves, B. (2001). Fluoride: Drinking Ourselves to Death?: The Scientific Argument Against Water Fluoridation . Dublin: Gill & Macmillan Ltd.

Turnock, B. (2009). Public Health: What It Is and How It Works. Burlington: Jones & Bartlett Publishers.

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