Postmodern Rhetorics of Technology: The Montreal Fluoridation Controversy

<jats:p> Montreal’s recent controversy over water fluoridation illustrates the challenge to deliberative rhetoric within postmodernity. The dispute ultimately turns on the claim to knowledge of public health officials. No non-controversial meta-narrative stands to legitimate their character and claims. Rhetorical discourse performs the impossible task of rendering the incommensurable to the court of judgment. </jats:p>