"It’s unfortunate that science isn’t part of the debate." So plaintively said a New Jersey dentist in...
Category: The New York Times
5Mar 2012
"It’s unfortunate that science isn’t part of the debate." So plaintively said a New Jersey dentist in The New York Times' story last week about the furious controversy over proposed legislation that would require fluoridation of that state's municipal water systems.
Which naturally leads one to wonder. Isn't science a compelling, convincing part of the debate? And why are we still having this debate at all? Fluoride's ability to prevent tooth decay and remove cavities was first discovered in...
UPDATE: The public editor of The New York Times has responded to this post....
UPDATE: The public editor of The New York Times has responded to this post. Here's the link.
When something in the paper is wrong, The New York Times is supposed to correct it. Sometimes it is so eager to do so that its corrections border on the trivial. When an article in the Nov. 13 issue of the Times Magazine on rubber duckies referred to the Seiberling Rubber Company, the paper was careful to note, in last Sunday's magazine, that it should have been...
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