FAN Bulletin #527:

March 16, 2006.

Dear All,

Over the last few days we have learned three things about the British Fluoridation Society:

1) It continues to propagate the false information that Chester Douglas’s data shows no relationship between osteosarcoma and fluoridation even though his own graduate student’s PhD thesis showed exactly the opposite. Here is a quote from their web page which is linked on the BBC’s web page http://www.bbc.co.uk/wear/content/articles/2006/01/31/fluoride_debate_feature.shtml>.

 It is bad enough that Douglass concealed this information from the BFS in November 2002, but it is even worse that  the BFS continues to hide the revelations of Douglass’s coverup today even though they first appeared in The Observer in June 2005. If they missed this report in a British newspaper (i.e. right under their noses) then surely someone must have informed them about reports in the Washington Post (July 13,2005); Associated Press (July 13, 2005) and Wall Street Journal (July 23, 2005).  In fact, it is very unlikely that Professor Michael Lennon remained ignorant of this scandal since he was in Chicago on July 13 when the story broke big time in the US. A reputable scientific organization would have made a correction immediately its officers heard about this deception, but they have not done so.

Here is the quote, which is currently misleading the British public:

2) The BFS continue to receive enormous sums of money (currently nearly $200,000 a year) from the British taxpayer. It is hard to understand why they receive this money. I am sure that their members would say for ‘”educational” purposes, but what is clear from the above is that the BFS is not an educational organization but a blatant propagandist outfit. Below we have printed a breakdown of the contributions they have received from the British government, going back to the 1970s.

3) The BFS yesterday (March 15) put out an action alert calling on “civil society organisations” to lobby European parliamentarians to oppose proposed amendments on regulations pertaining to food additives,  which would forbid the addition of fluoride to food or water. Specifically amendment 24 calls for the deletion of fluoride as a food additive and gives as justification, “fluoride should be added to toothpaste not food or water.”

http://www.europarl.eu.int/meetdocs/2004_2009/documents/am/602/602020/602020en.pdf.

This is the BFS alert:

This alert appears on the web site of the European Public Health Alliance and you can post a comment at http://www.epha.org/forum.php3?id_article=2175

Paul Connett

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The following figures were sent to us by Roy and Carol Smith  .

PQ 3847/1994/95

British Fluoridation Society: Amount of public funding for the period from 1973 to 1995

                Year                 DOH (£)                   HEA (£)
               73/74                    NIL                                 15,356
               74/75                  NIL                                   NIL
               75/76                  4,500                        NIL
               76/77            5,500                        NIL
               77/78            5,500                       500
               78/79             5,500                        NIL
               79/80            5,500                        NIL
               80/81           11,000                        NIL
               81/82           14,000                        NIL
               82/83           15,000                        NIL
               83/84           15,000                        NIL
               84/85           15,000                      5,500
               85/86           30,000                     10,000
               86/87           20,000                     15,000
               87/88           20,000                     13,000
               88/89           30,000                     20,977
               89/90           31,000                     11,574
               90/91           45,784                               3,428
               91/92                  51,491                         NIL
               92/93                  56,000                         NIL
               93/94                  62,247                         NIL

               94/95              63,000                                 NIL

               95/96                       78,000

               96/97            117,000

Source: British Fluoridation Society

DOH - Department of Health
HEA - Health Education Authority

Note

In 1997 the Health Education Council changed its name to the Health Education Authority.

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Year Ending        DOH, England       Scotland    Wales  Northern Ireland

31-03-2005      £87,000 £10,000 £5,000  £2,476
31-03-2004        £85,000 £10,000 £5,000  £2,382
31-03-2003        £84,050 £10,000 £5,000  £2,324
31-03-2002        £82,000 £8,000  £5,000  £2,268
31-03-2001        £80,000 £8,000  £5,000  £2,213

31-03-2000      £78,000 £8,000  £5,000  £2,159

Annual :
2000    2001    2002    2003    2004    2005

£93,159 £95,213 £97,268 £101,374        £102,382        £104,476
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