The City Council approved a plan Wednesday to add fluoride to Portland’s water, meaning Oregon’s biggest city is no longer the largest holdout in the U.S. The ordinance calls for city water to be fluoridated by March 2014. Dental experts say fluoride is effective in fighting cavities. Opponents of public fluoridation say it’s unsafe and […]
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Portland Council Passes Fluoridation With Unanimous Vote
After a controversial vote, Portland city leaders have directed the Water Bureau to build a fluoridation plant, scheduled to come online in 2014. April Baer reports the vote paves the way for months of political activity for supporters and opponents. Commissioner Amanda Fritz delivered a ten-minute speech before her vote. She’s facing a competitive re-election […]
Portland, Ore., Becomes Latest Fluoride Battleground
Over jeers and cheers from the audience, commissioners on the Portland, Ore., City Council voted Wednesday to add fluoride to the city’s drinking water starting in 2014. Portland is the largest American city that doesn’t add fluoride to its drinking water. But some groups have raised questions about the possible risks from fluoridation and oppose […]
Portland: Critics host forum against fluoride
Opponents of fluoridating Portland’s water supply are hosting a public meeting tonight, one day before the Portland City Council is expected to approve the idea. Clean Water Portland.org invites the public to learn more about the issue, at 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. Tuesday in the Eliot Chapel of the First Unitarian Church, 1011 S.W. […]
Fluoridation decision is too quick for Portland
American philosopher John Dewey believed the key to solving societal problems was the “scientific approach.” Aspects include being critical and objective, and drawing conclusions based on the whole of the evidence instead of selectively choosing only the evidence that will support a conclusion already made. The present debate about whether or not to add fluoride […]
Phoenix panel decides to continue fluoridating drinking water
Phoenix will not remove fluoride from the drinking water of 1.4 million residents, a subcommittee of City Council members decided Tuesday. After nearly two hours of heated testimony from advocates on both sides of the debate, council members agreed to let their fluoride policy stand without taking a vote. They could have opted to send […]
Portland Fluoride Debate Represents Ideological Clash
PORTLAND, Ore. — It’s a dental story told so often it borders on cliche. When someone moves to Portland from another state – and that’s most people you meet in this city of transplants – their new dentist takes one look at their excellent teeth and concludes they must have been raised elsewhere, a place […]
Harvard scientists: Data on fluoride, IQ not applicable in U.S.
Harvard University scientists say that Wichita voters shouldn’t depend on a research study they compiled to decide whether to put fluoride in the city’s drinking water to fight tooth decay. While the studies the Harvard team reviewed did indicate that very high levels of fluoride could be linked to lower IQs among schoolchildren, the data […]
Seward: Council member’s anti-fluoride ordinance’s introduction postponed
Rissie Casagranda, a city council member up for re-election October 2, is again trying to take a stand against fluoridation and other potential additives to our city water supply. She’s eager to pass an ordinance on the issue in case she’s not re-elected, as she is probably the most outspoken opponent of public water fluoridation […]
Portland Mayor Sam Adams does not find FAN “a credible source of information”
I was asked to watch the film “An Inconvenient Tooth.” I take my decision on fluoridation very seriously so I asked my staff and others to provide us answers to the questions raised in the film. The first interview is with Dr. Paul Connett, has been criticized for taking studies out of context and making blatantly false statements. For example, I […]