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Hamilton speaks: We want fluoride
Hamilton voters have been asked and for a third time they have answered emphatically: put fluoride in our drinking water. Just two weeks before local body election ballots close, a new Waikato Times poll, out today, has found voters overwhelmingly support fluoridation. The survey, conducted over a three-day period this week, shows 59 per cent […]
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‘No new water fluoridation scheme in Canada since 1999’
Thank you New Tecumseth Council for moving forward on the cessation of fluoridation issue. As a water quality teaching master for the past 35 years, I’ve spent the last 10 righting the wrongs about the water fluoridation myth that I had condoned for the previous 25. Since my active involvement, I, along with others have […]
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Fluoride: Analysing the EPA report
In the new issue of Hot Press, Adrienne Murphy reveals evidence that a report carried out by the Irish Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) into possible links between pollution and severe animal and human health problems in Askeaton, Co. Limerick was seriously flawed. The area is downwind from three large industrial sites including the largest aluminum […]
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Sept 27 in Green Bay: The Case Against Fluoride by Paul Connett
On Friday, Sept 27, at 10:30am at the Neville Public Museum in Green Bay a powerpoint presentation and lunch with environmental chemist and toxicologist Paul Connett, PhD, author of “The Case Against Fluoride: How Hazardous Waste Ended Up in Our Drinking Water and the Bad Science and Powerful Politics That Keep It There.” Green Bay […]
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New Tecumseth: Let residents decide (editorial)
New Tecumseth council is once again amid its annual debate about whether or not to remove fluoride from Tottenham’s water supply. Since 1973 fluoride has been added into the community’s water. Local dentist Dr. Gerry Ross was the catalyst and still stands by his decision 40 years later, saying it’s his greatest accomplishment and a […]
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Muskoka: Anti-fluoridation lobbyists to speak after political battle
A handful of district councillors tried unsuccessfully to silence anti-fluoridation lobbyists. District of Muskoka council was torn about hearing another presentation against municipal water fluoridation, but it eventually decided on Monday, Sept. 16, that it would allow a delegation on the subject at its October meeting. Georgian Bay coun. Paul Wianko argued against hearing the […]
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Columbia: Board OKs fluoride removal from water
Columbia City Council member Mike Greene grew up in a rural area drinking well water without fluoride, and he still has all his teeth. His parents, who drank the same water, have their teeth, and his siblings have theirs. “Everybody can afford to take care of their teeth,” Greene said. “… I grew up in […]
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Biochemistry lecturer gets teeth into fluoride debate: The fluoridation experiment should cease
I made a paid hobby, in my academic career, of publicising several health hazards. The first, in 1971 – aerial spraying of 2,4,5-T – provoked anti-fluoridation activists to accost me for help. I wouldn’t have anything to do with them; Prof Edson (Otago) had looked into fluoridation and concluded it caused no harm and some […]
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Hastings: Opinions fly in fluoride chat
Residents in attendance at a fluoridation meeting held by the Hastings District Council last night heard a flurry of figures from both sides of the debate. Both anti-fluoride campaigners and the Hawke’s Bay District Health Board representatives were in attendance to discuss the controversial issue. The anti-fluoridation side sought to undermine the efficacy of fluoridation […]
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Gilbert group gears up to launch campaign against fluoridation
A newly-formed political-action committee in Gilbert is building a case against adding fluoride to the town’s drinking water and plans to circulate petitions aimed at taking the issue to the November 2014 ballot. The Gilbert Safe Water Coalition, organized in June and about two dozen members strong, is focused on educating the community about fluoride […]
United States, Arizona