Interesting Links for 26-09-2021

[andrewducker]

Fluoride to be added to UK drinking water to cut tooth decay, chief medical officers say (I thought we had decades ago!)

(tags:UK teeth health water )

Sandman first look trailer

(tags:trailer sandman neilgaiman )

The Predator That Makes Great White Sharks Flee in Fear (Better to run than to have your liver squeezed out)

(tags:sharks whales predator )

Comments

[ninetydegrees]

Fluoride to be added to UK drinking water to cut tooth decay, chief medical officers say (I thought we had decades ago!)

(A note that the article addresses health concerns about water fluoridation.)
There's a chart in https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/magazine/magazine_article/fluoridated-drinking-water/ that suggests it was so this is weird indeed.

Fluoride

[alithea]

Severn Trent Water have been doing it for decades because I had fluorinated drinking water growing up. I knew it wasn't England wide but I had assumed it was reasonably widespread!

[snippy]

I grew up (mostly) in a city that did not and still doesn't fluoridate its water. I have the cavities and the fillings to prove it, in every one of my molars.

[anna_wing]

I grew up in a developing country that fluoridated its public water supply as soon as it actually had one. I hadn't realised there were developed countries apart from the US that didn't do it.