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Originally Posted by Wormius
Can you imagine the psychotic breaks and cognitive gymnastics people would be going through if coal mining caused fluoride to leach into the water.
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Why do you think cognitive gymnastics would be needed? Fluoride is naturally in our water, a certain level is beneficial, and if it gets too high it isn't good. Fluoridation aims to get the concentration to the beneficial level - sometimes actually involves decreasing the concentration, not just adding. If mines were adding fluoride at the toxic concentration that would be a bad thing, same as selenium.