Chronic Disease Program Specialist: Fluoride Program Coordinator – Limited Service State of Vermont – Burlington, VT Description Overview: The Vermont Department of Health is recruiting for a Fluoride Program Coordinator/Chronic Disease Specialist in the Health Promotion and Chronic Disease Prevention Division’s Office of Oral Health. This position is responsible for providing support to the Oral […]
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FAN calls for the resignation of the director of the CDC’s Oral Health Division
Warnings needed to inform pregnant women living in fluoridated areas that the fetus and formula-fed infant are the most vulnerable to fluoride’s neurotoxicity. Public health officials should warn pregnant women and parents who bottle-feed infants living in fluoridated communities to avoid fluoridated water. No health agency has yet to do this.” — Paul Connett PhD, […]
Iran vows revenge for ‘Israeli’ attack on Natanz nuclear site
“Enriched uranium is produced by feeding uranium hexafluoride gas into centrifuges to separate out the most suitable isotope for nuclear fission, called U-235.” The Iranian foreign minister has said his country will “take revenge” for an attack on an underground nuclear site, for which it has blamed Israel. Iranian officials said the Natanz uranium enrichment […]
Policing orthodoxy on Wikipedia: Skeptics in action?
Note: Fluoride Action Network has spent many hours over many years trying to correct the mistakes on Wikipedia’s fluoridation site, but all to no avail. Abstract: Wikipedia has been accused of being biased against challengers to scientific orthodoxy due to efforts by editors having affinities with the Skeptics movement. Examination of Wikipedia, including entries on […]
Australian Bauxite converts smelter waste to aluminium flouride [sic]
The Bell Bay industrial precinct in Tasmania, where Alcore is hoping to build an aluminium fluoride production plant. Credit: TasInvest ASX-listed Australian Bauxite’s 87 per cent-owned chemical refining subsidiary, Alcore may be on the cusp of turning aluminium smelter waste into treasure after producing aluminium fluoride samples from waste known as “dross” in recent test […]
Tap solution: Scots dentists’ move for fluoride in the water supply to combat children’s oral health crisis
SCOTS dentists have re-ignited a decades old debate by demanding that fluoride be added to Scotland’s drinking water to beat a children’s dental crisis exacerbated by a lack of available treatment during pandemic. The British Dental Association in Scotland (BDAS) has been concerned that according to reports from frontline staff, some 2,500 children in Scotland […]
Piney Point: ‘No community should suffer this’: Florida’s toxic breach was decades in the making
A leak at an abandoned fertilizer plant is just the latest development at a site that has polluted the area since it was built 01:10 Drone footage of Florida reservoir shows toxic water leak near Tampa Bay – video It’s been a week since a significant leak at a long-abandoned fertilizer plant in the Tampa […]
Spokane mayor, council president may strike deal on fluoride study
Spokane Mayor Nadine Woodward and the Spokane City Council have struck a new deal over studying a fluoride system for city water. (Christopher Anderson) Spokane leaders have renegotiated the terms of the grant used to fund the analysis in order to assuage the concerns of Spokane Mayor Nadine Woodward. The Spokane City Council accepted a […]
NZ: Blurred boundaries risk leaving people feeling cut off from issues directly affecting them
OPINION: Stuff reporter Joel Maxwell recently questioned whether councils have a place in the modern world, where experts are increasingly called on to decide critical matters. He cites a proposal to move fluoridation from councils to the director-general of health, and asks, if local government can’t even get communities to agree to a fairly straightforward […]
‘Hidden Hot Springs’ as a Source of Groundwater Fluoride and Severe Dental Fluorosis in Malawi
Abstract Hidden hot springs likely impact rural water supplies in Malawi’s Rift Valley with excess dissolved fluoride leading to localised endemic severe dental fluorosis. Predicting their occurrence is a challenge; Malawi’s groundwater data archive is sporadic and incomplete which prevents the application of standard modelling techniques. A creative alternative method to predict hidden hot spring […]