>> Donahue also said Marque had been researching the possibility of moving his hosting, and his residence, to Russia.
Nice try FBI, but I have a feeling that Puttin's Russia will have him a gulag after a 5 minute "trial," appeal included.
Funny you should mention that -- I believe that water fluoridation was once suspected of being a communist plot to more or less the same effect.
Of course, none of these "theories" manage to address the fact that there is fairly strong evidence that water fluoridation does in fact reduce tooth decay.
Not agreeing with those theories, but this argument is flawed.
Even if it does "reduce tooth decay", so what, in the context of their argument? Who said a substance can't do two things at one time?
If you narrow that search down further by adding the constraint of a simple and easily explained health benefit that has since been repeatedly validated by science, you should expect to find approximately zero compounds.
To look at it another way, suppose that studies had been done on fluoridation and found no benefit in terms of tooth decay. That would certainly be evidence in favor of the conspiracy theories. It is always the case that if E is evidence of H, then ¬E is evidence of ¬H, so the fact that fluoridation prevents tooth decay must be at least weak evidence that the conspiracy theories are false. The argument above gives one reason that it is not particularly weak evidence.
Fluoride was used in the past to pacify populations, at least, that is the claim made by anti-F people (I haven't myself run down the sources).
There are books out concerning F and its effect on the body's metabolism, such as this one http://www.amazon.com/Fluoride-Aging-Factor-Recognize-Devast... .
Too much fluoride can lead to fluorosis - there is this case of fluorosis among horses drinking municipal water that was fluoridated http://www.fluorideresearch.org/391/files/3913-10.pdf .
edit: link found via google: http://www.livescience.com/28078-skeletal-fluorosis-tea-drin...
See also: Donora death fog. http://www.fluoridation.com/donora.htm