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Watertown: Clean it up
Despite all the uncertainty with its continued operations, the chaos surrounding the North Country Children’s Clinic has resolved one key issue: The city of Watertown cannot now possibly consider removing fluoride from its supply of drinking water. The clinic came close to shutting its doors last week because it was running out of money. But […]
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Watertown: Six primary council candidates attend forum
Fluoride. The so-called roommate law. Blighted neighborhoods. Better communication with residents. Council salaries. Should the city have a dog park? These were just some of the issues that the six Watertown City Council primary candidates discussed during a forum Thursday night at the Italian American Civic Association club on Bellew Avenue. Not a debate, the […]
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Watertown. Fluoride: A non-issue in City Council primary race
This is the third installment in a series of stories presenting the views of City Council candidates. Fluoride. It’s the issue that the six Watertown City Council candidates no longer want to talk about. For weeks, a growing number of people belonging to an anti-fluoride group lobbied the council to rid the city’s water supply […]
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West Point: Fluoride Concern Arises Again
The fight to take fluoride out of West Point’s water supply is still ongoing, and members of the West Point Board of Mayor and Selectmen listened tentatively Tuesday to the issue concerning fluoride. West Point residents Chad Scott and Vaughn Blaylock appeared before the board, stating their case that the use of fluoride in the […]
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Chemical Used In “Harmless” Subway Gas Test Linked To Early Menopause
As you may have noticed, Brookhaven National Laboratory and the City of New York are currently cooperating on the largest urban airflow study in U.S. history—and you get to be the guinea pig! Yesterday they released “low concentrations of harmless gases” known as perfluorocarbons into the subway system and at street level, as part of […]
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NYPD to simulate a chemical attack on the subway system Tuesday
NEW YORK (PIX11) – The city announced it will begin the first of its tests simulating a chemical/biological/radiological in the subway system beginning Tuesday Morning. The test is part of a 3 day sampling called Subway-Surface Air Flow Exchange, a program the city first publicized earlier this year. Beginning at 6am Tuesday, researchers and NYPD […]
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Is Fluoride “Brain-Drain” Damaging Generations of Children?
New York – June 25 – Fluoride is one of 213 known brain-toxic chemicals that may lower the intelligence of generations of children, reports renowned physician and 30-year brain researcher, Dr. Phillipe Grandjean in his new book, “Only One Chance: How Environmental Pollution Impairs Brain Development,” reports the New York State Coalition Opposed to Fluoridation, […]
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Watertown: Fluoride supporters unwilling to debate
In response to the editorial on June 9 regarding fluoride. The simplest way that promoters of fluoridation could demonstrate that their case for fluoridation was strong and scientifically-based would be take on qualified opponents of fluoridation in open public debate. Their refusal to do so speaks volumes on their lack of confidence on the science […]
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Watertown. State dental expert: fluoride is needed
Dr. Jayanth V. Kumar, director of the state’s Bureau of Dental Health, recommended that the Watertown City Council not just listen to him about the benefits of public fluoridation. Council members should look at the numerous national and international studies, expert committees and reports completed over the decades to form their opinions. Only then will […]
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Watertown. Editorial: Keep fluoride
Monday’s City Council meeting will finally present a forum for a fair hearing on whether the city should continue its near 50-year practice of adding fluoride to the water supply. The Jefferson-Lewis County Dental Society is prepared to expose the council to the science and facts that substantiate the value of use of minuscule amounts […]
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