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  • Support inquiry into fluoride as carcinogen

    An online petition calling for a Congressional investigation into the safety of fluoridation has been posted on the Fluoride Action Network website. Maureen Jones, the director of Citizens for Safe Drinking Water, is calling attention to the petition which, she says, supports the 11 environmental protection unions that are contending that there should be a […]

  • The cost of no cavities

    Is fluoridated water good for you? Or is it a poison that causes young boys to die of bone cancer? For 60 years, U.S. cities and towns have been adding fluoride to tap water, and for 60 years pro-fluoride advocates have been unable to forge a scientific consensus in favor of the practice. Those who […]

  • Harvard Professor Hiding a Link?

    TRANSCRIPT FOX ANCHOR 1: Fluoride in water is supposed to fight tooth decay but could it also cause cancer? It’s a controversial question. FOX ANCHOR 2: Now Harvard University is actually caught up in the debate with serious allegations that an ivy league professor may be covering up the truth. Fox Undercover’s Mike Beaudet is […]

  • The evidence that fluoride is harmful is overwhelming

    Dr. Limeback was one of the 12 scientists who served on the National Academy of Sciences panel that issued the 2006 report, “Fluoride in Drinking Water: A Scientific Review of the EPA’s Standards.” Dr. Limeback is an associate professor of dentistry and head of the preventive dentistry program at the University of Toronto. ### The […]

  • Fluoridation Faceoff: Some feel tap-water additive link to rare cancer

    “There’s really no problem. You just have to be careful, because if you spill it, it will eat through your skin. It’s the same stuff they use for etching glass.” Melvin Register wasn’t talking about acid he uses to clean his pool or drain cleaner to loosen gunk from his pipes. He was talking about […]

  • Bellows Falls raises fluoride issue

    BELLOWS FALLS — Trustees plan to revisit whether to continue adding fluoride to the public water system after health concerns were raised about the tooth decay-fighting additive. The Bellows Falls Board of Trustees agreed to hold a public hearing Aug. 23 to discuss the issue of fluoride, which has been added to the drinking water […]

  • Fairbanks. Letter: No to fluoride

    To the editor: Pro-fluoridation lobbyists say “… there are no adverse health effects associated with fluoridated water.” This is simply false. The fluoridation orthodoxy tolerates no doubt, dismissing opposition as quackery after cursory review, holding faith in “expert opinion” of public health bureaucrats. Nobel laureate Arvid Carlsson is as qualified as any, but is strongly […]

  • Claim: Doctor fudged fluoride findings

    An environmental watchdog group plans to file a complaint today with federal medical authorities claiming a Harvard doctor is fudging research findings. The Washington, D.C.-based Environmental Working Group said Dr. Chester Douglass reported no link between fluoride and bone cancer in boys, contradicting extensive research done by one of his doctoral students. Douglass, a professor […]

  • Fluoride risk fear

    A STUDY that links fluoridated drinking water with a rare bone cancer in boys has further fuelled the anti-fluoride debate. The Gippsland Safe Water Alliance (GSWA) says the study is evidence that fluoridation is dangerous. GSWA spokesperson Shane Elson said the study by Harvard University scientists should at least raise a red flag and stop […]

  • An assessment of bone fluoride and osteosarcoma