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Maley is a researcher at the Biodesign Center for Biocomputing, Security and Society and professor with the School of Life Sciences at ASU.

In the 1964 film “Dr. Strangelove,” the unhinged Gen. Jack D. Ripper declares that “fluoridation is the most monstrously conceived and dangerous Communist plot we have ever had to face” — echoing the position of the John Birch Society.

In George Orwell’s classic depiction of an authoritarian society, “Nineteen Eighty-four,” a key component of political control is the state’s erasure of history: “Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book has been rewritten … every date has been altered. … After the thing is done, no evidence ever remains.”

An accurate historical account is an independent value of a free society.

All of these goals should be articles of faith in a democratic society.