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  • No Evidence for Fluoridated Water to Result in Less Cavities

    Two-thirds of Americans drink tap water that has added fluoride. Unlike other chemicals added to water, which are intended to treat the water itself, fluoride is intended to treat the people who drink the water, whether they want the treatment or not. As the Fluoride Action Network (FAN) puts it, “Fluoridating water supplies can thus […]

  • It’s in the water: the debate over fluoridation lives on

    Many people take for granted the addition of fluoride into public drinking water systems that aims to prevent tooth decay. It’s a seven-decade old public health effort. But it’s not nearly as universally accepted as one might think. At least seven cities or towns across the country debated it just this summer. For example, Wellington, Fla., decided to add […]

  • Lethbridge: Time to rethink fluoridation issue

    The failure of the political push to re-introduce fluoride into Calgary tap water should renew pressure on Lethbridge City Council to terminate forced fluoridation here. Recently Calgary City Council voted nine to five against a notice of motion that would have re-opened the fluoridation debate. The majority of city councillors did not buy the extravagant […]

  • It’s in the water: The debate over fluoridation lives on in California and nationwide

     Note from Fluoride Action Network: While the following article was first published on September 23 in USA today and rerun in several publications across the country, there’s a focus on California in this version that wasn’t in the original. There are also deletions and rewording of some paragraphs from the original. In the middle of […]

  • Sugar And Your Health: How The Sugar Industry Influenced Scientific Research

    In the summer of 1969, Dr. Richard Greulich, the scientific director of the National Institute of Dental Research (NIDR), stood in front of the Sugar Industry Research Foundation (SIRF) sponsored symposium to discuss how to eliminate tooth decay and assured his audience it wouldn’t have anything to do with reducing sugar consumption. He echoed Big […]

  • Prominent MD joins chorus demanding Feds investigate fluoridation

    Prominent physician, Mark Hyman, MD, author of 9 New York Times best-selling books and a Huffington Post  medical editor warns that swallowing fluoride poses risks to the brain and thyroid, and that communities of color and underserved communities are disproportionately harmed. Dr. Hyman supports, “federal investigative hearings looking into why our cities and towns are allowed […]

  • Group begins battle to take fluoride out of Knoxville drinking water

    One side calls it extremely harmful to our health, while the other hails it as a major medical achievement. Fluoride has become so ingrained in America since the early 1960s that it is nearly impossible not to ingest it in some form or fashion constantly on a daily basis. Ashley Graham-Smith of Powell is on […]

  • San José Iturbide: Warning issued over contaminated aquifer

    The National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) has issued an aquifer contamination warning for the Guanajuato municipality of San José Iturbide given high levels of radioactivity detected in at least 2,500 wells. UNAM researcher Marcos Adrían Ortega told the newspaper Milenio that at least half of those wells supply water for farming, and that five people […]

  • Former U.N. Ambassador Calls for Fluoridegate Scandal Hearings

    Andrew Young, former Atlanta Mayor and U.N. Ambassador has written a letter to the Georgia Governor Nathan Deal calling for hearings to investigate the safety of fluoridation and the disproportionate harm caused to various sub-populations.  Ambassador Young wrote a similar letter in 2011, and joined many other civil rights leaders in condemning fluoridation. You can […]

  • John Bucher quotes in the Press of Atlantic City, NY, in March 2015

    John Bucher, MS, PhD., DABT, Associate Director, National Toxicology Program Director, National Toxicology Program Division As quoted in the Press of Atlantic City, New Jersey: 3-27-15: Egg Harbor votes to keep fluoride in its water http://www.pressofatlanticcity.com/news/breaking/egg-harbor-city-votes-to-keep-fluoride-in-its-water/article_daf3206e-d42e-11e4-9eb5-6f118b865ae3.html …Some studies have found lowered IQs in children in villages in China and India who have been exposed to […]