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Fluoridation of Water: Communist Conspiracy, Genuine Threat or Both?
Who can forget the scene from Kubrick’s classic movie Dr. Strangelove of screws-loose General Jack D. Ripper pontificating to straight-laced British group captain Lionel Mandrake about the dangers of fluoride in water—even as machine-gun fire tears up his office? “Mandrake,” says Ripper, “Have you ever seen a Commie drink a glass of water?” “Well,” says […]
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Potsdam: Connett Raising Fluoride Awareness
CANTON – He has spent 14 years fighting fluoride, but Paul H. Connett thinks next year might be his break-through year. The professor emeritus of chemistry at St. Lawrence University recently published a book, “The Case against Fluoride,” and has spent most of this fall traveling around the globe promoting it. Mr. Connett has espoused […]
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Seneca County: Health board looks at adding fluoride to water
WATERLOO — The Seneca County Board of Health is exploring the cost of fluoridating the county’s municipal water supplies. “It’s very preliminary at this point,” said Vickie Swinehart, county public health director. “We’ve asked the county’s grant writer, Peter Brown, to see if there are grants out there for equipment and other startup costs and […]
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Retired SLU chemistry professor co-authors ‘Case Against Fluoride’ book
CANTON — St. Lawrence University Emeritus Professor of Chemistry Paul Connett is the co-author of the book The Case Against Fluoride: How Hazardous Waste Ended Up in Our Drinking Water and the Bad Science and Powerful Politics That Keep It There, recently published by Chelsea Green Publishing. Written with James Beck and H. Spedding Micklem, […]
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Cayuga County: Saving smiles
Excerpts: … Last week, a dental hygienist and speaker touted the importance of focusing on oral hygiene with children to a group of pediatric professionals. During a presentation at Auburn Memorial Hospital, Laurie Turner said pediatricians should be working with families to address their young children’s teeth to prevent health issues down the line. “If […]
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Walden OKs return of fluoride
Fluoride. It’s back in Walden. With one opposing vote, the Village Board of Walden approved the local law on fluoride at their meeting last week, returning the chemical to the water supply. Of course, as the village has seen ever since the topic first came up some months ago, it wasn’t that simple. The board […]
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Walden board to reconsider fluoridating village water
WALDEN — Three months after voting to take fluoride out of village water, the Village Board will consider a law Tuesday that reintroduces it. Weeks after the April decision, which was prompted by concerns about worker safety and corrosive effects on the plant, local dentists asked the board to reconsider. The American Dental Association and […]
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Dutchess lawmakers consider eliminating health board’s power
POUGHKEEPSIE — Dutchess County legislators have begun debating a local law that would strip the county Board of Health of its authority to set public health laws. Members of the Legislature’s Government Services and Administration Committee on Thursday took up legislation proposed by Legislator Michael Kelsey that would take away the board’s authority to “formulate, […]
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Walden reconsiders decision on fluoride
Local dentists gathered at a board meeting last Tuesday to discuss the board’s recent decision to stop fluoridating the village’s drinking water supply, a practice that has been in place in since 1953. And, they weren’t happy. Walden dentist Tim Hale summed up the feelings of about a half dozen dentists who were in attendance. […]
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No more fluoride for Walden
A decision by the Village of Walden Board of Trustees last Tuesday set the wheels in motion to end the fluoridation of drinking water in the village after concerns were cited regarding overexposure and erosive effects on the village water system. Officials provided a host of reasons on why the fluoride needed to go, not […]
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