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  • 50 Reasons to Oppose Fluoridation

    Introduction In Europe, only Ireland (73%), Poland (1%), Serbia (3%), Spain (11%), and the U.K. (11%) fluoridate any of their water. Most developed countries, including Japan and 97% of the western European population, do not consume fluoridated water. In the U.S., about 70% of public water supplies are fluoridated. This equates to approximately 185 million people, which […]

  • Why I Changed My Mind About Water Fluoridation

    To explain how I came to change my opinion about water fluoridation, I must go back to when I was an ardent advocate of the procedure. I now realize that I had learned, in my training in dentistry, only one side of the scientific controversy over fluoridation. I had been taught, and believed, that there […]

  • Fluoridation not without its risks

    RECENTLY I attended the 25th international conference on fluoride research, where several papers revealed that fluoridation of water supplies is both ineffective in reducing tooth decay and potentially harmful to health. Yet, on the basis of out-of-date notions and discredited results, North East Water, based in Albury-Wodonga, is being pressured to implement fluoridation of all […]

  • Fluoridation Debate in Cairns

    MORE research into the costs of putting “highly toxic minerals” in the city’s water will be done before a decision is made to fluoridate the water supply. Cairns Mayor Kevin Byrne last week said he would like to introduce fluoride immediately to improve the city’s poor dental record, but would hold a referendum to give […]

  • Water wars

    ADVOCATES place it among the 10 most significant public health achievements of the 20th century. They talk of it alongside medical milestones such as the eradication of smallpox and polio, the control of measles, rubella, tetanus and diphtheria and the recognition of tobacco as a health hazard. But for every person in support of fluoridating […]

  • More than a mouthful of evidence

    Part of the argument for fluoridating Brisbane’s water supply is that Brisbane is out of step with the rest of Australia. In fact, Brisbane may be out of step with the rest of Australia but it is not out of step with the rest of the world. Brisbane is in step with major cities throughout […]

  • Trading tooth decay for cancer

    THOSE health bureaucrats who want to force fluoride on the water supplies of rural NSW should learn from their cousins north of the border. This year, well-meaning people have again tried, unsuccessfully, to force mandatory water fluoridation on Queensland. Now I am not a scientist but there seem to be five prongs to their offensive: […]

  • Fluoride meeting in Tenterfield

    At the fluoride meeting there were positive suggestions and alternatives to fluoridation put forward by locals. Calls for greater community education about healthy eating were made repeatedly. Local resident Noel Manser challenged NSW Health to distribute a show bag of toothbrushes, toothpaste and information to Tenterfield schools as part of a pilot study until 2008. […]

  • Fluoride: should we swallow it?

    The new Sustainable Water Strategy document recommends a Melbourne-Geelong pipeline as a longer term supply strategy. Minister Thwaites confirmed this and possible fluoridation for Geelong in the Advertiser (20/4). The DSE document though, and Jim Cousins’ discussion of it (Advertiser 5/5) were deafening in their silence on fluoridation, the chief obstacle to the interconnection. The […]

  • Cavities in the fluoride push

    THOSE advocating the addition of fluoride to Queensland’s public water supply prefer to denigrate opponents than engage in substantive debate. For instance, the Australian Dental Association’s Robert McCray dismisses opponents’ arguments and says people who don’t want fluoride can take it out of the water themselves – at significant expense. This is a medical treatment […]