I applaud Dr. Meskin’s editorial "Do No Harm" (September JADA). I would like to suggest that one of the reasons that amalgam is getting bashed is that there is money in it.
As crude as the dictum "follow the money" is, I have to look no further than our dental journals that invoke the various authors’ versions of economically driven "science" as they promote their version of improved materials and techniques. It helps, of course, when hysteria (frequently media-driven) is the state-of-mind that is generated. Reason and logic are, of course, the casualties of these tactics.
