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• More Studies Link Fluoride to Brain Damage

  Legislators Are Mislead About Gravity and Extent of Fluoride Brain Risk. Newly discovered and translated published studies reveal fluoride is linked to lower IQ, even at levels added to US water supplies, reports the Fluoride Action Network (FAN). Further, fluoridation promoters misrepresented newly published Harvard fluoride/IQ research. Thirty-four studies now link fluoride to reduced IQ […]

• Harvard study: Fluoridated water lowers children’s IQ

  Researchers at Harvard University recently published the results of a long-term analysis that links fluoridated water to lower IQ scores in children. The alarming findings were released in Environmental Health Perspectives, a publication of the National Institute of Health.   Professor Philippe Grandjean and research scientist Anna L. Choi of Harvard University partnered with medical […]

• Albany. Editorial: Why dentists are still busy

  The city council in Portland is determined to order the fluoridation of the water on which Portland and surrounding cities depend. In most of the mid-valley we had this debate years ago, and more recently in Philomath. In Albany the water has been fluoridated for longer than anyone can remember. So you would think the […]

• The Facts About Fluoride & Human Intelligence

  Ingestion of fluoride has been linked to reduced intelligence in 37 studies of human populations. Despite calls by the National Research Council and a team of Harvard scientists to take these findings seriously, American fluoridation proponents are cavalierly dismissing the warnings based on misleading, and even demonstrably false, claims.

• NW Health Foundation’s new executive talks health care, fluoride and social justice

  As the new executive director of the Northwest Health Foundation, Nichole Maher is both a fresh face and an old soul. At only 33, she comes to the organization already with 10 years experience as the head of NAYA, the Native American Youth and Family Center. It was a decade of working within one of […]

• Fluoridation: A Statement in Favor

  Author says that artificial fluoridation is inexpensive, has no demonstrated risk, and offers considerable financial, medical, and dental benefits. OPINION – August 27, 2012 — My personal experience with fluoridation began by growing up in Phoenix, Arizona, an area with naturally high fluoride. I noticed two consequences. First, my teeth and those of the kids […]

• Fluoridation – A Misplaced Conflict

  The author believes fluoridation will improve the dental health of all our citizens, and is an ethical mandate, not a conspiracy by the city council.   OPINION — August 28, 2012 — It is unfortunate that The Lund Report gave Rick North such as prominent podium from which to expound the “bad science” used by […]

• Fluoride on Scappoose agenda

  The debate over the safety of fluoridated water has come to the forefront once again, now that Oregon Citizens for Safe Drinking Water, which is opposed to a plan to add fluoride to Portland’s water, is asking voters to ban the substance in 2014. Portland’s city council recently voted to add fluoride to the water […]

• Tualatin City Council discuses fluoridation…

  … In other news, three people raised concerns about the fluoridation debate during the public hearing. Rick North, a former state director of the American Cancer Society and a Durham resident, said safe fluoride drinking water is a myth. He citied studies that suggest a correlation between fluoride drinking water and lower IQ. Bill Osmunson, […]

• Communities that Have Rejected Fluoridation Since 2010

  Most developed nations, including the vast majority of western Europe, do not fluoridate their drinking water. Cities that do not fluoridate their water include: Amsterdam, Barcelona, Basel, Berlin, Copenhagen, Florence, Frankfurt, Geneva, Glasgow, Helsinki, London, Montreal, Oslo, Paris, Rome, Stockholm, Tokyo, Vancouver, Venice, Vienna, and Zurich. Since health authorities in North America have refused to let go […]