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A School of Dental Medicine professor cleared last month of allegations that he covered up links between fluoride and bone cancer is listed as a million-dollar benefactor of the school’s new research and education building. The revelation has led one environmental advocacy group to suggest that a recent Harvard investigation of the professor, Chester W. […]

(WASHINGTON, Sept. 15) — A Harvard Medical School professor recently cleared by a Harvard ethics panel of charges that he suppressed critical research findings made a million dollar contribution to the University’s Dental School. The contribution—one of just six million dollar gifts that helped create the Dental School’s new research building—is not in and of […]

WASHINGTON – Government health advisers rejected a federal report that concluded dental fillings used by millions of patients are safe, saying further study of the mercury-laden amalgam is needed. A joint panel of Food and Drug Administration advisers did not declare the so-called “silver fillings” unsafe. But in a 13-7 vote Thursday, the advisers said […]

A Harvard University investigation found that a professor accused of distorting research on fluoridated water and bone cancer “did not intentionally omit, misrepresent or suppress research findings,” the university said in a written statement this week. Chester Douglass, a professor of oral health policy and epidemiology at Harvard Dental School, was being investigated by Harvard […]

BOSTON –A Harvard review has found that a dentistry professor did not commit research misconduct while looking into potential links between fluoride in drinking water and a rare form of bone cancer. The Environmental Working Group, a Washington, D.C.-based advocacy group, filed an ethics complaint against Chester Douglass, a professor of oral health policy and […]

On August 4, the Office of NYS Attorney General, Eliot Spitzer, submitted comments to the US Environmental Protection Agency in support of the revocation of the use of Dow AgroSciences food fumigant sulfuryl fluoride (ProFume®). Three groups (Fluoride Action Network, Environmental Working Group, Beyond Pesticides) petitioned EPA in June 2006 to revoke all food tolerances […]

WASHINGTON, Aug. 1 – Unions representing thousands of staff scientists at the Environmental Protection Agency say the agency is bending to political pressure and ignoring sound science in allowing a group of toxic chemicals to be used in agricultural pesticides. Leaders of several federal employee unions say the chemicals pose serious risks for fetuses, pregnant […]

For a long while, the medical and health establishment brushed off claims that fluoridation of drinking water posed any danger to humans. Not any more. In a cover story in the August edition of Prevention magazine, the respected publication headlines “New Research: Is Your Water Safe to Drink?” The article notes that for over fifty […]

Environmentalists are poised to challenge EPA’s decision to license a fluoride-based soil fumigant pesticide, which they say could draw attention to the broader issue of whether fluoride standards for drinking water adequately protect public health. EPA July 5 opened public comment on a petition from three environmental organizations calling on the agency to temporarily ban […]