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Anonymous Health Department web posting is final admission of fluoridation’s failure
On 5th May 2005, four and a half years after it was promised, an anonymous and undated response to Dr Connett’s 50 Reasons to oppose fluoridation was posted on the Department of Health’s website under the heading Dental Research. While purporting to be a critical appraisal of the 50 Reasons it is actually an attempt […]
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NJ Governor guts authority of state health council
Acting Gov. Richard Codey has stripped the Public Health Council, created in 1947, of its considerable power weeks before the independent body planned a controversial vote on water fluoridation. Critics called the move a “power grab” by the governor, and the chairman said he and some other members of the council likely will resign in […]
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Water on Okinawa bases no longer fluoridated
KADENA AIR BASE, Okinawa — Many young adults today have never encountered a dentist drill, and many health experts credit that achievement to fluoride. Most Americans reap the fluoride’s cavity-fighting benefits without ever thinking about it – they get it every time tap water passes their lips. But on Okinawa, servicemembers and their families don’t […]
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FAN to Protest at Fluoridation’s 60th Birthday Party in Chicago
Burlington, Vt. — The Fluoride Action Network (FAN) will protest during the July 13th “Celebration of 60 Years of Community Water Fluoridation” ceremony held jointly by the American Dental Association (ADA) and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control (CDC) in Chicago’s Millennium Park, Chase Promenade South, (between Randolph and Monroe Streets) beginning at 10 am. […]
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Water on Okinawa bases no longer fluoridated
KADENA AIR BASE, Okinawa — Many young adults today have never encountered a dentist drill, and many health experts credit that achievement to fluoride. Most Americans reap the fluoride’s cavity-fighting benefits without ever thinking about it – they get it every time tap water passes their lips. But on Okinawa, servicemembers and their families don’t […]
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Fluoride – Clear proof of harm?
A BOMBSHELL report may have finally put paid to Government plans to re -introduce fluoride into tap water in Northern Ireland. And it could also have major ramifications for the Republic, which along with Britain, are the only two countries in the EU where water is fluoridated. According to new American research, boys between the […]
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Phosphate spill endangers once-thriving lake
Weeks after millions of gallons of highly acidic chemicals flowed into one of the Gulf Coast’s most productive estuaries, a wide river of rusty brown trees and dead marsh grass slices through the summer green of Mississippi’s Bangs Lake, near Grand Bay on the Alabama border. Portions of the shallow waters at the upper end […]
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Dental School Begins Investigation of Prof
The Harvard School of Dental Medicine announced on Wednesday that it will launch an investigation into the work of one its faculty members, after an environmental watchdog group accused the professor of ignoring research conducted by one of his own students that linked fluoride to bone cancer in boys. Chester Douglass, chair of the dental […]
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Fluoride debate flows in Horsham
HORSHAM residents have weighed into an ongoing fluoride debate with concerns water fluoridation is receiving insufficient discussion by the community. Since announcing a Wimmera Primary Care Partnership bid to fluoridate Horsham water on April 1, the Mail-Times has published 22 letters to the editor on the subject with 19 opposing the proposal. Horsham mother Donna […]
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Yarmouth residents voice concerns over fluoridation
Fluoridation was a controversial topic 50 years ago and it’s a controversial topic today. In Yarmouth, the question of whether or not to add fluoride to the town’s water supply drew nearly 40 people to a recent public hearing of the board of health, which has been charged by Yarmouth selectmen to explore the issue. […]
United States, Massachusetts