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  • Austin: Fluoride Throwdown!

    As we’ve written, Austin’s water fluoridation practices inspire a small but rowdy band of opponents. City staff tried to assuage their concerns – or at least provide a pretext for closing the door on the discussion – in a report (PDF) defending the practice. Tonight, that report should receive a scrutinous vetting. The city’s Environmental […]

  • Austin: Environmental board calls for water fluoridation study

    The Austin Environmental Board posed a question at Wednesday’s meeting that a city report failed to answer: Does Austin’s water fluoridation practices pose a threat to the city’s public health? Water fluoridation is the addition of fluoride to public water supplies to reduce tooth decay. A report on the practice was called into question at […]

  • Austin, TX: America’s Largest Water Fluoridation Fight

    Water fluoridation is an institution in America. The American Dental Association (ADA) and World Health Organization (WHO) say it is a safe and cost-effective way to prevent cavities. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) hails it as one of the ten great public health achievements of the 20th Century. On the other side, […]

  • Austin: Fluoridation Under the Microscope

    Local anti-fluoridation activists brought in heavy scientific reinforcements last week, with several Austin appearances by Paul Connett, professor emeritus of environmental chemistry at St. Lawrence University, director of the Fluoride Action Network, and co-author of the recently released The Case Against Fluoride (Chelsea Green Publish ing), in which he and two academic colleagues review the […]

  • Health Department Seeks to Mandate Fluoridation in Pierce County

    It took three decades of lobbying and two hard-fought elections before residents of Tacoma agreed in 1989 to add fluoride to their drinking water. Similar battles are still being waged at the polls in cities, counties and states across the country. Now, the Tacoma/Pierce County Health Department is proposing what its director says is a […]

  • City of Austin water policy concern

    Questions arose over City of Austin water quality Nov. 9 at Travis County Commissioners Court when Dr. Paul Connett, professor emeritus of chemistry at St. Lawrence University in New York, persuaded the court to take a serious look at Austin’s fluoridation policy. Attention to the issue has been growing since Austin’s Environmental Board requested an […]

  • Fluoridation: What’s new since the 1999 vote?

    ON SEPT. 14, Manchester, Bedford, Goffstown, Hooksett and Londonderry will decide whether to continue fluoridating the public’s water. Has anything new happened since the November 1999 vote, when a slim majority chose to fluoridate? Absolutely! Following, a sampling of significant developments: December 5, 1999: Dr. Hardy Limeback, head of preventive dentistry at the University of […]

  • Poll finds most dental patients unaware of mercury

    PORTSMOUTH – Mercury is the second most toxic element in the periodic table, said Dr. Richard Fischer, past president of the International Academy of Oral Medicine and Toxicology. The first is plutonium, which is radioactive and has a half-life of 100,000 years. Yet, each year dentists use 34 tons of mercury in the silver-colored amalgam […]

  • Water fluoridation under microscope at area seminar

    PORTSMOUTH – In the movie “Dr. Strangelove,” the character called Col. Jack D. Ripper railed against the dangers of fluoridation of water. He said fluoridation was conjured up as a Communist plot, designed, as Ripper so famously put it in Stanley Kubrick’s 1962 movie, “to sap our precious bodily fluids.” Ripper’s character was written in […]

  • New Hampshire Bill Targets Contaminated Drinking Water Additives

    Following a contentious election season that resulted in 14 cities and counties throughout America voting no to fluoridating their public water supply and 9 voting yes, the focus of New Hampshire legislation, responding to citizen concerns, has turned away from the fluoridation controversy to the actual substances used in the fluoridation process. Without taking a […]