An urgent reminder to all our readers. Please send in your letter to President Bok asking him to provide a clear explanation for the Harvard anonymous investigators’ extraordinary exoneration of Professor Chester Douglass. The Environmental Working Group provided damning evidence that he first hid, and then misrepresented, his graduate student’s thesis, which showed a robust relationship between young boys drinking fluoridated water and osteosarcoma (a rare but frequently fatal bone cancer). It stretches credulity to the limit to believe that this misrepresentation  - which covered a 4 year period  - was not “intentional” as claimed by Harvard on August 15. For more details on this extraordinary affair go to http://www.FluorideAction.net where you will see an interesting new design proposed for the Harvard shield if this matter is not dealt with openly and truthfully.

You can either send in your own personal letter to President Bok (please bcc me at  
) or send in the online letter at http://actionstudio.org/?go=2413

1) in your first sentence you explain who you are (this personalizes your message);
2) put any higher degree after your surname;
3) if you are writing from a country other than US, include your country name after your town, and put “Other” for your state.

4) copy and save your letter before submitting, and

5) if you have problems submitting your message send the copied version directly to President Bok at

To date we have had over 100 individual letters sent to President Bok and over 180 online letters, many of which have been personalized.  Please do what you can to get your friends and colleagues to send in a letter as well. They will be in very good company.

Below is a selected list of some very distinguished signers who have already sent in letters. If you are on this list please let me know if I have omitted or mangled your qualifications! If you are not, please forgive us, space prevented us from printing everyone’s name. No slight is intended, especially to those who spend so much time - and so selflessly - on this issue.

Many, many thanks.

Paul Connett
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Harvard Graduates who have sent a letter to President Bok:

Phillip Allen, MD, Harvard Medical School, ‘54

Jon Bower, graduate, Harvard Business School, ‘86

Albert Burgstahler, PhD, Professor Emeritus of Chemistry, Kansas University; Editor of the journal Fluoride; Co-author, “Fluoridation: The Great Dilemma”; MA ‘50, PhD ‘53.

David Egilman, PhD, MPH,  graduate of Harvard School of Public Health, ‘82. http://www.mesotheliomaweb.org/egilman530474.htm

Naomi Flack, EdM, Harvard Graduate School of Education, ‘64
 
Roy Flack, LLB, Harvard Law School, ‘64; MBA, Harvard Business School, ‘66

Laura Haight, Harvard College ‘84

Antone G. Jacobson, PhD, Professor Emeritus of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology, The University of Texas at Austin, Harvard College, ‘51

Dr Emily A. Kane, recent mayoral commissioner to evaluate risk/benefit of fluoridation of municipal water in Juneau, AK, author Managing Menopause Naturally, Bastyr University ‘92  (doctorate, Naturopathic Medicine), Harvard University ‘78

Stephen M. Koral, Dentist,  AM, Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, ‘70; DMD, Harvard School of Dental Medicine, ‘80.

Kathryn Lee, EdM, Harvard Graduate School of Education, ‘94

Peter Orris, MD, MPH, Professor and Chief of Service Occupational and Environmental Medicine University of Illinois Medical Center, Chicago, IL, Harvard University ‘67. http://npalliance.org/content/pages/peter_orris

Richard J. Perry, PhD, Professor Emeritus of Anthropology, St. Lawrence University, Harvard College ‘64

Eleanor Prentiss, BA, Harvard’s Extension, ‘67

Richard Shames, MD, author “Feeling Fat, Fuzzy or Frazzled?” Harvard College, ‘67

Caroline Snyder, PhD, Professor Emeritus, Rochester Institute of Technology,  MA, Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, ‘56, PhD,  ’66.

Brian Tokar, author “Gene Traders”, “The Green Alternative” and “Earth for Sale”, MA Biophysics, Harvard Graduate School for Arts and Sciences, ‘81

Robert Weissman, Editor of Multinational Monitor, Director of Essential Action, co-author, “Corporate Predators” and “On the Rampage”, Harvard College ‘88-’89, Harvard Law School ‘95.
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Robert Anderson, PhD, Physicians and Scientists for Responsible Genetics, New Zealand

Vinod Barot, PhD, Hammond, Indiana

James S. Beck, MD, PhD, Professor Emeritus of Medical Biophysics, University of Calgary, Canada

G. Ed. Browning, PhD, Prosselsheim, Germany

Dr. Noel Campbell, Melbourne, Australia

Neil Carman, PhD, Austin, Texas

Paul Connett, PhD, Professor Emeritus of chemistry, St. Lawrence University, Canton, NY, Executive Director, Fluoride Action Network

Elvira Dommisse, PhD, former research scientist, Crop & Food Research Institute of New Zealand

Jorge Emmanuel, PhD, Pinole California

Sam Epstein, MD, Professor Emeritus Environmental & Occupational Medicine University of Illinois at Chicago School of Public Health; Chairman, Cancer Prevention Coalition Chicago, Illinois and author “The Politics of Cancer”

Dr. Lillie Fessenden, Brentwood, Tennessee

Dorothy Goldin Rosenberg, PhD, Toronto, Canada

William Hetrick, PhD, Wichita, Kansas

Bob Isaacson, PhD, panel member the NRC (2006) review of the toxicology of fluoride in water, co-author of the Varner et al. (1998) study, SUNY, Binghamton, NY

Tushar Kant Joshi, Head, Centre for Occupational and Environmental Health, Lok Nayak Hospital, New Delhi, India.

John Kelleher, PhD, Brooklyn, NY

J.C. Kim, Editor, Green Review, South Korea

Linda Langness, PhD, Bonners Ferry, Idaho

Luise Light, MS, EdD, former Senior Nutritionist, National Cancer Institute, NIH and Head, Dietary Guidance and Nutrition Education Research, US Department of Agriculture, author “What to Eat; The Ten Things You Really Need to Know to Eat Well and Be Healthy”

Marina A. Llorente, PhD, St. Lawrence University, Canton, NY

Jennifer Luke, PhD, pioneer researcher on fluoride and the pineal gland, UK

Dr. Gos Micklem, Lab head, Cambridge, UK

Henry Micklem, MA, DPhil (Oxon), Emeritus Professor of Immunobiology, University of
Edinburgh

Raul Montenegro, PhD, Professor of Evolutionary Biology, National University of Cordoba, President of FUNAM (Environment Defense Foundation), Alternative Nobel Prize 2004 (Stockolm, Sweden), Argentina

Gilles Parent, ND, co-author “Fluoridation : Autopsy of a Scientific Error”, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Dr. Andrew Saul, doctoryourself.com, Hamlin, NY

Ruth W. Shearer, PhD, Lacey, Washington

John Short, PhD, Colorado

David Smernoff, PhD, Portola Valley, California

Dr. Bruce Spittle, Dunedin, New Zealand

Raymond R. White, PhD, Palo Alto, California