BMJ  2007;335 (6 October), doi:10.1136/bmj.39357.591076.47

Editor's Choice

Editor's choice

Tooth and nail

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If you're interested in what BMJ editors do when they are out and about, there's a new blog on bmj.com (http://blogs.bmj.com/bmj/category/comment/editors-at-large). It gives a flavour of some of the conferences we've been at and some of the people we've met: the eponymous Dr Kawasaki for one, UK public health grandee Rod Griffiths for another. I met Rod at a conference in Athens and we got talking about fluoride. No one in their right mind would get involved in the debate about water fluoridation, he said. It's a minefield. But this week we do get involved, and against his better judgment, so does Rod.

In the Analysis section (doi: 10.1136/bmj.39318.562951.BE), KK Cheng, Iain Chalmers, and Trevor Sheldon summarise the problems that bedevil reasoned discussion on whether fluoride should be added to water supplies. Highly polarised disputes are fuelled by misuse of what little evidence there is, and the . . . [Full text of this article]

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