@Siromar -- You said: The response I heard is that improved sanitation, access to clean food and water, and other hygiene related innovations were the culprits [credited to improved public health]. Which is ironic, since those who bitch about vaccines tend to be the same people who complain about fluoride toothpaste, anti-bacterial soap, and other obviously useful innovations.
I said: Fluoride is not relevant to public sanitation...
You were saying that people who tend to 'bitch' about fluoride toothpaste, etc. are the same people who credit sanitation, access to clean food and water, and other hygiene related innovations . I'm saying fluoride is irrelevant to public sanitation. So it wouldn't be ironic for people to complain about about excessive fluoride (primarily in drinking water and other beverages, btw), and still believe in the health value of sanitation. But what you said just fits with the other obtuse, derisive and misinformed statements....