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Fluoride linked to bone cancer
A New Jersey Department of Health study says there may be a link between drinking fluoridated water and increased incidence of bone cancer in young men. The state Health Department says the results are not strong enough to stop fluoridation of drinking water — the key ingredient in preventing dental cavities in children. But a […]
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Rat Studies Link Brain Cell Damage With Aluminum and Fluoride in Water
ANAHEIM, Calif. – A team of New York scientists said rat studies offer preliminary evidence that aluminum, when administered in drinking water, may be linked with behavior changes and damaged brain cells. The study, presented at the meeting here of the Society for Neuroscience, is the latest of several studies hinting at some link between […]
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Alaska’s Fluoridation Accidents: 1984-1992
WHERE THE WATER TURNED DEADLY FLUORIDE SYSTEM WASN’T THE ONLY THING TO FAIL IN HOOPER BAY Anchorage Daily News David Hulen September 22, 1992 Let’s say that you were very thirsty and wanted to drink a glass of water and the owner of the household wanted for you to help yourself. As you take their […]
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Is Science Censored?
“Publicity … would certainly follow,” fretted the editor of one top journal. “A possible general panic,” predicted a researcher. Both were explaining why a study linking childhood leukemia to fluorescent lights should not be published. That fear trumped the conclusion of other reviewers-scientists who evaluate whether a manuscript should be published in a journal-who called […]
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Aluminium phosphate for the defluorination of potable water
Abstract In this paper, a new method for the defluoration of potable water is described. In the proposed method, aluminium phosphate is used as a matrix of the stationary phase which can adsorb fluorides or exchange with fluorides selectively and reduce the concentration of fluorides in natural water to an allowable level. We have repeated […]
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Profits of Doom on the Border of Blight
THE 1,250-mile stretch of border between Mexico and the US is a lawless area in a way the old Wild West never was. It reeks of lawlessness, literally stinks of it. Institutionalised lawlessness. In the town of Matamoros, across the Rio Grande from Texas, the earth and the water supply, from which comes all the […]
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Border Town Mystery: Why are so many Brownsville babies being born brainless?
Brownsville, Texas – On a hairpin bend of the Rio Grande, where the south wind from Mexico carries the sweet smell of freshly cut sorghum and the stench of chemicals, something terrible befell Janet Ramirez. The child she had prayed for, her first, was born dead with a tangled mass of nerve endings instead of […]
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A ‘Toxic Tour of Texas’
Rita Carlson often referred to herself as just a Texas City housewife, but that was only part of who she was. Before Carlson and her family moved to rural Illinois in April 1990, she also was the first president of Texas POWER, People Organized to Win Environmental Rights, a statewide coalition of grass-roots environmental groups, […]
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Mexicans fear DuPont’s Hydrofluoric Acid plant could cause ‘Next Bhopal’
MATAMOROS, Mexico – Here, in a densely populated border city across the Rio Grande from Brownsville, Tex., the name of an infamous locale in India is heard with stunning frequency. “We don’t want to be the next Bhopal,” said Erasmo Lucio Garza, referring to the site of the 1984 toxic gas leak at a Union […]
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Buffer zones head for the border
Companies with chemical plants just south of the U.S. border are under increasing political and environmental pressure. Recently, the environmental protection agencies of the U.S. and Mexico announced they are seeking public comment on plans to improve the environment along the border. And this week a decision is expected from a Mexican court on whether […]