Water fluoridation has been advocated by the U.S. Department of Health, the World Health Organization, and, as an effect, dental associations and national health councils all over the world. It has been argued that fluoride is a nutrient mineral that is essential for human health, and the optimum concentration is just under one milligram per litre. The WHO claims that “Any public water supplies with fluoride levels below 0.1 mg/l (ranging up to 0.3 for cooler climates) need to be fluoridated with artificial fluoride.” Yet no evidence supports that fluoride is an essential nutrient for humans, or that it has any oral health benefits.

The American Insurance Group is currently in the middle of what has been called a growing political firestorm, after allowing payouts of $165 million from government aid in bonuses to their executives. “People are right to be angry. I’m angry,” said president Obama this Wednesday. AIG, which has received a whopping $180 billion in a tax payer funded bailout the last six months, is now asking the people who received more than $100,000 to return half.

Stem cell research in the U.S. gets its restrictions lifted, stem cell research in Canada shows why this is a good idea.

That’s 20,000 jobs disappearing every day. Less jobs means less income, less income means less spending, which will force employers to slash even more jobs. Even though Obama has been moving quickly to get the stimulus package out, economics professor Sun Won Sohn says that “the stimulus won’t have immediate effect on job creation even though some planned layoffs could be cancelled,” and that any significant job growth will not be seen until 2010.