Researchers outlined an elaborate plan in 1949 to use workers at a Tennessee uranium processing plant to learn more about the long-term effects of chronic radiation exposure on humans, a recently declassified document showed. The document suggests that the aim was focused more on using the workers as guinea pigs to learn about radiation health effects than on worker protection, said one investigator. Dr. Harold C. Hodge was quoted in the Oak Ridge memo as describing the need to secure tissue samples from the uranium workers.
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’83 Transcripts Show Fluoride Disagreements
The year is 1983, nearly 40 years after fluoridation of U.S. water supplies began. The quotes are from a hitherto unpublicized transcript of the committee’s meeting obtained by Martha Bevis of Houston with the aid of her congressman.
Acute Poisoning from Water Fluoridation
FAN’s compilation of water fluoridation accidents that have resulted in fluoride poisoning.
$750,000 Given in Child’s Death in Fluoride Case: Boy, 3, Was in City Clinic for Routine Cleaning
A State Supreme Court jury awarded $750,000 to the parents of a 3-year-old Brooklyn boy who, on his first trip to the dentist in 1974, was given a lethal dose of fluoride at a city dental clinic and then ignored for nearly five hours in the waiting rooms of a pediatric clinic and Brookdale Hospital […]
A New York 2007 “Dirty Dozen” Award nominated by FAN
Fluoride Action Network Pesticides Project Canton NY 13617 The New York 2007 “Dirty Dozen” Awards to Polluters and New York State Government Agencies Today the Albany-based Citizens’ Environmental Coalition unveiled the recipients of its fourth annual “Dirty Dozen“ Awards* to various polluters and state agencies in New York. The “winners” were selected by a committee […]