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Cui Bono

December 21, 2009 by  
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My previous blog ended with alliances being formed. “This political, legislative and fiscal background allowed a Council decision without resort to a referendum. With respect to community water fluoridation in New Zealand, Hastings represented the primary interface between

Consensus As scarce as Hen’s Teeth

December 20, 2009 by  
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“Analyses of events or data can result in differing interpretations depending on the perspectives and bias of those involved. Moreover, the long evolution of community water fluoridation has its beginnings anchored in the duality of

Listening to the Juke Box

December 19, 2009 by  
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“Clearly, the fluoride argument is a very complex issue, many differing scientific studies, with many different stakeholders who have many different perspectives, some well meaning and some self-serving, motivated by profit, and many just ignorant of the facts. Cui bono (latin for “as a benefit to whom”) more colloquially, WHO benefits?”

A Tooth for a Tooth

December 18, 2009 by  
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If the Letters to the Editor of my local Newspaper, The CHB Mail (Tuesday December 15, 2009) are anything to go by, the issue of fluoridation to our local public water supply is becoming

White Out

December 17, 2009 by  
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C S Lewis in his book ‘The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe’ raises the notion of a ‘deeper magic’ (when one who is blameless willingly dies on behalf of the guilty and may return to life). Lewis’ main character, Aslan goes head to head with