MOLENA, Ga. — A small town south of Atlanta last week voted to keep fluoride out of the city's water system. The vote came amid national controversy over fluoride – recommended by the CDC, but not the agency's boss, Robert Kennedy Jr.

Molena is a town of about 400 people with one flashing traffic light, a yearly Bigfoot festival, and its own municipal water system, housed in a cinderblock building with a dozen-plus filters to remove trace amounts of uranium from the aquifer.

Mayor Joyce Corley says it was not uranium but fluoride that drove the Pike County town’s water politics last week. The state Environmental Protection Division wanted to add fluoride to the water system, she says, to comply with state law.

Townsfolk were aghast.

"Most of the city council said it was poison. That t

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