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  • 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 […]

  • A teleconference with regulatory officials on April 9, 2015

    For the previous months leading up to this event, Jill Jennings-McElheney of the Northeast Georgia Children’s Environmental Health Coalition worked to arrange a teleconference meeting with officials in U.S. regulatory agencies to dialogue with non-government participants on issues pertaining to the toxicology and science of fluoride (and if possible, the ethics of their decision-making). This […]

  • Community water fluoridation predicts increase in age-adjusted incidence and prevalence of diabetes in 22 states from 2005 and 2010

    Abstract Community water fluoridation is considered a significant public health achievement of the 20th century. In this paper, the hypothesis that added water fluoridation has contributed to diabetes incidence and prevalence in the United States was investigated. Panel data from publicly available sources were used with population-averaged models to test the associations of added and […]

  • Fluoridation Debate Rages On Across US

    Fluoridation–to date, there isn’t a clear consensus regarding the real benefits or dangers of this intervention among dental professionals and members of the public. This issue appeared in the news again after several communities across the United States began debating, again, whether fluoride should continue to be added to public drinking water systems. While it’s […]

  • State’s dentists sink teeth into Healdsburg fluoride fight

    In a small and charming tourist-destination town in northern Sonoma County, a local ballot measure has pitted a tiny but dogged band of activists against an unusual enemy: dentists. Healdsburg is the site of a battle over water fluoridation that has drawn local political groups and the California Dental Association into its orbit. Measure T […]

  • Putting Fluoridation into Perspective

    Fundraising. Our current totals stand at $128,048 from 544 supporters. Realistically, with only three days to go (including the rest of today) achieving our goals of $150,000 from 1000 donors by midnight Dec 31 (PT) is going be very difficult (some would say “impossible,” but we refuse to use that word). However, our super-angel has modified his strategy for […]

  • Ellen’s Opus: The Toxic Release Inventory for Fluoride

    We have spent much of the last month celebrating Michael’s grand opus: an analysis of over 300 studies that indicate that fluoride is neurotoxic. This celebration climaxed yesterday with the release of the video in which he explains in layman’s terms several of the studies which give further credibility to the notion that fluoride lowers IQ . Citizens armed […]

  • PRESS RELEASE: Toxic Waters, Broken Laws

    –  See: FAN’s Full Report Investigation Finds Widespread Failure by Texas Regulators to Notify Residents of Toxic Fluoride Levels LOS ANGELES, CA – Texas water systems with high levels of naturally occurring fluoride failed to warn consumers about the hazards of fluoride-contaminated water for years, in clear violation of the Safe Drinking Water Act. The violations, […]

  • Fluoridated Water Destroys Your Brain and Teeth

    Story at-a-glance – In the U.S., 57 percent of youth between the ages of 6 and 19 years have dental fluorosis When fluoridation was first started in the U.S. in 1945, it was promised that only 10 percent of people would suffer from mild dental fluorosis Public health officials often brush off fluorosis as purely […]

  • Auckland University professor to take on anti-fluoride campaigners

    A top professor has agreed to spar with an anti-flouride group, saying it is a debate that needs to happen. Auckland University professor Michelle Dickinson will debate Professor Paul Connett who is a senior advisor to the Fluoride Action Network. The group is an international coalition which refuses to accept the current science on fluoride, and claims […]