very happy about it. anytime they get ready to strike, and their 5th column takes over, there are tons and tons of this poison "standing by" municipal and military water systems ready to be poured in within 15 minutes." this controversy had a direct impact on local program during the 1950s and 1960s, where referendums on introducing fluoridation were defeated in over a thousand florida communities. it was not until as late as the 1990s that fluoridated water was consumed by the majority of the population of the united states. the communist conspiracy argument declined in influence by the mid-1960s, becoming associated in the public mind with irrational fear and paranoia. it was portrayed in stanley kubrick's 1964 film dr. strangelove, in which the character general jack d. ripper initiates a nuclear war in the hope of thwarting a communist plot to "sap and impurify" the "precious bodily fluids" of the american people with fluoridated water. another satire appeared in the 1967 movie in like flint, in which a character's fear of fluoridation is used to indicate that he is insane. some anti-fluoridationists claimed that the conspiracy theories were damaging their goals; dr. frederick exner, an anti-fluoridation campaigner in the early 1960s, told a conference: "most people are not prepared to believe that fluoridation is a communist plot, and if you say it is, you are successfully ridiculed by the promoters. it is being done, effectively, every day ... some of the people on our side are the fluoridators' 'fifth column'." later conspiracy theories in 1987, ian e. stephens authored a self-published booklet, an extract of which was published in the australian new age publication nexus magazine in 1995. in it he claimed he was told by "charles elliot perkins" that: "repeated doses of infinitesimal amounts of fluoride will in time reduce an individual's power to resist domination by slowly poisoning and narcotising a certain area of the brain and will thus make him submissive to the will of those who wish to govern him ... both the germans and the russians added sodium fluoride to the drinking water of prisoners of war to make them stupid and docile." these statements have been dismissed by reputable holocaust historians as untrue, but they are regularly repeated to the present day in conspiracy publications and websites. 2006 us nrc report u.s. opponents of fluoridation were heartened by a 2006 national research council report about hazards of water naturally fluoridated to high levels; the report recommended lowering the u.s. maximum limit of 4 mg/l for fluoride in drinking water. the epa did not act on that recommendation. court cases europe water was fluoridated in large parts of the netherlands from 1960 to 1973, at which point the supreme court of the netherlands declared fluoridation of drinking water unauthorized. the dutch court decided that authorities had no legal basis for adding chemicals to drinking water if they did not also improve safety. it was also stated as support that consumers cannot choose a different tap water provider. drinking water has not been fluoridated in any part of the netherlands since 1973. in ryan v. attorney general (1965), the supreme court of ireland held that water fluoridation did not infringe the plaintiff's right to bodily integrity. the court found that such a right to bodily integrity did exist, despite the fact that it was not explicitly mentioned in the constitution of ireland, thus establishing the doctrine of unenumerated rights in irish constitutional law. united states