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BONING UP ON FLUORIDE
In Stanley Kubrick’s classic 1964 movie, Dr. Strangelove, the deranged General Jack D. Ripper thinks he knows a secret communist plot to destroy Americans from within. “A foreign substance is introduced into our precious bodily fluids without the knowledge of the individual. Certainly without any choice,” he says ominously. He’s referring to water fluoridation, “the […]
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Goldsboro temporarily halts fluoride water treatment
Goldsboro’s public utilities director says a decision to stop putting fluoride in city water is a temporary measure pending testing by state authorities. The injection of fluoride into the city’s water was halted June 30, said Karen Brashear, who cited a recent study released by a doctor at the University of North Carolina-Asheville that prompted […]
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Fluoride remains hot issue in Arcata
Arcata City Council meetings have become heated in recent months, due largely in part to the seemingly polar stance some residents and local health officials have adopted over the issue of water fluoridation. Fluoride, a substance used to reduce the incidence of dental cavities, has been added to Arcata city water since the early 1960s, […]
United States, California -
Crackdown urged on mercury waste from dentistry
King County dentists have taken the lead statewide in reducing toxic mercury going down the drain and out into the environment. Now a coalition of environmental groups, labeling a voluntary state program to cut dental mercury waste a failure, wants a statewide crackdown. The voluntary two-year agreement, in which the Washington State Dental Association promised […]
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Fluoridation makes ballot in Bellingham
The Bellingham City Council took no action Monday on a voter initiative to fluoridate the city’s drinking water, essentially sending the measure to November’s ballot without expressing an opinion on it. The council voted Monday night to table the matter until an Aug. 22 meeting, but the initiative will have been put on the ballot […]
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Fluoride statewide?
NORTH ATTLEBORO — The seemingly never-ending battle over fluoride in the water could be moving from the local stage to the Statehouse in the near future. State Rep. Kathleen Teahan, D-Whitman, has filed legislation requiring that fluoride be added to the water supply in every community with 5,000 people or more. One hundred and thirty […]
United States, Massachusetts -
Water fluoridation link to cancer not bringing vote back
An investigation into why a link between water fluoridation and cancer was suppressed won’t bring the issue back to Davis County ballots, a leading anti-fluoride advocate said Wednesday. David A. Hansen, chairman of Citizens For Safe Drinking Water, said even with the new evidence, he’ll make good on his pledge and not petition to bring […]
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A victory in state for free speech
Mark Breiner, a Trumbull resident who practices dentistry in Orange, has won a significant free speech victory over the state Department of Public Health. Breiner is an outspoken opponent of amalgam dental fillings that contain the toxic substance mercury. For years he has locked horns with the state agency and the American Dental Association and […]
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Dentist allowed to criticize mercury-based fillings
HARTFORD, Conn. — A Connecticut dentist who has been outspoken about what he contends are health risks in mercury-based dental fillings can continue to speak out. Mark Breiner, who has offices in Orange, has reached a settlement with state public health officials who had threatened to pull his license. The health department has said Breiner’s […]
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Xenia voters to decide on fluoride
XENIA – The teeth may (or may not) have it Nov. 8. The Xenia City Council voted Thursday night to let voters decide if fluoride should be added to the city’s drinking water. The council’s decision to put the issue to citywide vote next November followed a failed vote on the subject Thursday and a […]
United States, Ohio