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Europe's failure to make a common market of itself is typified by the continuing muddle over civil air transport policy. The time has come to change that.
The idea that there may be forces between macroscopic objects other than those caused by gravity is no longer an outrage. But precisely what is meant remains unclear.
Large temporal reductions in tooth decay, which cannot be attributed to fluoridation, have been observed in both unfluoridated and fluoridated areas of at least eight developed countries over the past thirty years. It is now time for a scientific re-examination of the alleged enormous benefits of fluoridation.