FAN Bulletin 831:
July 6, 2007
Dear All,
Since I circulated the Professionals’ statement in the last bulletin yesterday, another 40 professionals have signed on. These include Ronnie Cummins (National Director, Organic Consumers Association), Chris Bryson, author of “The Fluoride Deception,” Dr. Rosalie Bertell, Richard and Karilee Shames co-authors of ”Feeling Fat, Fuzzy or Frazzled?” and “Thyroid Power”, Arthur Chiu, PhD, MD, Chair, Health and Safety Committee, NTEU Local Chapter 280, Pathologist/Toxicologist/National Center Environmental Assessment, Office Research and Development, US Environmental Protection Agency (identification purposes only), Washington, DC and many more doctors and dentists.
Several of the new signers have added some powerful comments at the end of this document. Here are some samples:
Ronnie Cummins: “The Organic Consumers Association supports a ban on water fluoridation. America’s 50 million health and environmental- minded organic consumers are not only concerned with the purity of their food, but the purity of their water as well. Ban water fluoridation now!”
Paul Gilbert: “It’s really an irony that the ADA relies on old, outdated “science” to support its pro fluoride position, and then has the nerve to say that we use “junk science”. I believe that the ADA is now about as professionally corrupt as it can get. The ADA is an embarrassment to real research scientists.”
Bittu Sahgal: “Each human being is unique. Nature has an unique relationship with each one of us. The “one size fits all” fluoridation formula amounts to ‘poisoning Peter to pay Paul’ and that is nothing short of immoral.”
Barry Groves: “When I was researching my book, (“Fluoride: Poisoning Ourselves to Death”) I was astonished by the utter lack of knowledge within the dental profession (in the UK), and with their apparent unwillingness even to consider trying to find out the truth of this measure. Furthermore, isn’t medication without consent contrary to UN human rights legislation?”
John Eaton: “I have actively opposed compulsory Fluoridation for over 40 years. As a lawyer, I am only too well aware of how our individual freedoms are being continually threatened and eroded - and the freedom to refuse unwanted medication is one of the most important freedoms we enjoy. A totalitarian measure like fluoridation sets an extremely dangerous precedent, and opens up an avenue which we should simply not go down. The effect of fluorides on tooth enamel, and the effect of ingesting a cumulative enzyme poison, may well be a dental and a medical question respectively, for the experts - but whether to use public water supplies for conveying medication to all consumers, irrespective of their needs and wishes is an entirely ethical question, on which the opinion of the lowest-paid, least-educated manual worker should carry just as much weight as the most highly-qualified President of the Medical and Dental Professions - they are all water-consumers, and should all have an equal say in what poisons or medication they ingest.”
Below, I have printed the Professionals’ statement again and the updated list of signers and comments. Check the listing and if you feel that you, too, should be on this list please send me (at
Remember this is the rock on which we will build the rest of our campaign to end fluoridation worldwide. Please help build that rock. On August 1, we will put this statement online and invite every one who support the Professionals’ statement to add their name to an online petition. Each time someone from the US signs this their name will be sent to their US Representatives.
Please circulate the petition to potential professional signers, but do not use it publicly until August 1.
I hope you share my excitement with the way this list of signers is growing so quickly. Hopefully, all those dentists and doctors who tell you behind the scenes that they are opposed to fluoridation, will now make their opposition public. I think if the ADA or others take any steps to harass their members who speak their mind on this issue – as they have done in the past – it will now backfire on them.
Paul Connett
Health, Scientific, Environmental and Legal Professionals call for an End to Water Fluoridation
Introduction:
Water fluoridation involves adding various fluoride chemicals to the public water supply at a concentration of 1 ppm (1 part per million or 1 milligram per liter), ostensibly to fight tooth decay. 1 ppm may seem small, but it is actually 250 times greater than the level of fluoride in mother’s milk, 0.004 ppm.
Once fluoride is put into the public water supply, the dose cannot be controlled and it goes to “patients” without their consent, thus violating both medical ethics and the individual’s human rights. It also goes to subsets of the population that we now know are particularly vulnerable to fluoride‘s toxic effects - including the very young, the very old, the infirm, people with poor kidney function and others with poor nutrition.
While strongly supported by the US public health establishment, most countries have rejected this practice, including the vast majority of European nations. They are not willing to force medication on those who do not want it, and they feel that many health concerns have not been resolved (see a list of official statements from various countries on this at http://fluoridealert.org/govt-statements.htm ). According to World Health Organization (WHO) data available online, dental health for 12 year olds in non-fluoridated countries is as good, if not better, than those countries which fluoridate.
These observations in countries are duplicated in studies comparing communities within a country. Since the 1980s there has been an ever growing number of research articles and reviews which indicate that there is little difference in tooth decay between communities which are fluoridated and those which are not (Leverett, 1982; Colquhoun, 1984; 1985 and 1987; Diesendorf, 1986; Gray, 1987; Brunelle and Carlos, 1990; Spencer et al. 1996; deLiefde, 1998; Locker, 1999; Armfield and Spencer, 2004 and Pizzo et al., 2007. An alphabetical listing of the full citations can be found at http://www.fluoridealert.org/health/biblio.html ). Any minor difference due to fluoride status is usually dwarfed by the difference in income levels. Poverty is the major factor related to tooth decay, not lack of fluoride.
Government officials endlessly promote fluoridation while steadfastly refusing to publicly debate the issue, or provide the scientific evidence to support their claims.
Professionals’ statement:
We the undersigned call for an end to water fluoridation.
SEVEN recent events make action to end this practice urgent.
1. The publication in 2006 of a 500 page review of all relevant health effects and exposure information on fluoride by a distinguished panel appointed by the National Research Council (the research arm of the National Academy of Sciences). The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) requested this review to determine if a new drinking water standard is required. Contrary to news media coverage, the NRC report went far beyond concluding that the current EPA standard of 4 ppm (i.e. the maximum contaminant level goal) is unsafe and should be lowered. The panel identified many important research studies in which animals or humans drinking water close to, at, or even lower than 1 ppm, showed numerous systemic adverse health effects. These included: bone fractures, decreased thyroid function, impaired glucose tolerance (pre-diabetes), brain cell damage, lowered IQ in children, kidney damage, arthritic-like conditions, symptoms characteristic of Alzheimer’s disease and cancer. Considering the substantial variation in individual water intake, and the wide range of human sensitivity to any toxic substance, fluoridation at 1 ppm provides no margin of safety to protect against these adverse health effects.
2. The publication in 2004 of the book “The Fluoride Deception” by award-winning investigative reporter Christopher Bryson. This meticulously researched book documents that industrial interests, concerned about liabilities from fluoride pollution and fluoride’s heath effects on workers, played a significant role in the early promotion of fluoridation in the 1950’s. Bryson also details the brutal suppression of scientists who have challenged the establishment on the safety of this practice. A videotaped interview with Bryson can be accessed on Google.
3. The evidence provided by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in 2005 that 32% of American children have dental fluorosis – an abnormal discoloration and mottling of the enamel – caused by fluoride exposure. Clearly, our children are now being overdosed with fluoride – from water, swallowed toothpaste and foods and beverages processed with fluoridated water, and other sources. Fluoridated water is the easiest source to eliminate.
4. The American Dental Association’s distribution, on November 9, 2006, of an Advisory to its membership recommending that fluoridated water not be used in the preparation of infant formula due to the elevated risk of dental fluorosis. This admission by the ADA that fluoridated water is not appropriate for infants is reason alone for fluoridation to be immediately halted.
5. The concession by the CDC in 1999, and again in 2001, that the predominant benefit of fluoride in reducing tooth decay is TOPICAL and not SYSTEMIC. To the extent fluoride works to reduce or prevent tooth decay, it works from the outside of the tooth, not from inside the body. It makes no sense to drink it and expose the rest of the body to the long term risks of fluoride ingestion when fluoridated toothpaste is so readily available.
6. The publication in May 2006 of a peer-reviewed, case-controlled study from Harvard University which showed a 5-7 fold increase in osteosarcoma (a frequently fatal bone cancer) in young men associated with exposure to fluoridated water during their 6th, 7th and 8th years (Bassin et al., Cancer Causes and Control, 2006). This study was surrounded by scandal as Elise Bassin’s PhD thesis adviser, Professor Chester Douglass, was accused by the watchdog Environmental Working Group of attempting to suppress these findings for several years. See video at http://FluorideAction.net
7. The admission by federal agencies, in response to questions from a Congressional subcommittee in 1999-2000, that the industrial grade waste products used to fluoridate over 90% of America’s drinking water supplies (fluorosilicate compounds) have never been subjected to toxicological testing or FDA approved for human ingestion. See: http://keepersofthewell.org/
To bring an end to fluoridation:
We call upon Members of Congress to sponsor and/or support a new Congressional Hearing on Water Fluoridation so that those in government agencies who continue to support the procedure, particularly the Oral Health Division of the CDC, will be compelled to provide the scientific basis for their ongoing, aggressive promotion of fluoridation with millions of taxpayer dollars. They must be cross-examined under oath if the public is ever to fully learn the truth about this unnecessary and harmful practice.
We call upon local elected officials in fluoridated communities to exercise due diligence in this matter and read the basic scientific literature themselves. It is not enough to blindly accept assurances from biased agencies whose reputations depend on maintaining the status quo and whose employees are required to promote fluoridation. If you are not confident about claims that fluoridation is safe and effective, you should not be forcing this practice on those who don’t want it and may be harmed by it.
We call upon members of the media to do a professional job investigating this issue. Do not assume that the opposition’s arguments are invalid because of the reams of endorsements that promoters use to put your intelligence on hold. It is irresponsible to just quote the Dr. Strangelove film and a few sentences from each side. If author Christopher Bryson can spend 10 years researching this issue, surely other investigative journalists can spend more than 10 minutes sorting out fact from fiction in this matter.
We call upon State health agencies, at the very least, to use their health networks to thoroughly publicize, at all levels, the ADA recommendation that fluoridated water not be used in the preparation of infant formula.
We call upon medical and dental professionals to get up-to-date on this issue. Professionals should use their own high level education to look beyond the outdated blanket endorsements from promoting agencies. Specifically, we call upon them to review the NRC (2006) report and the other literature cited in the introduction above.
We call upon members of environmental and other activist groups to get involved. In addition to health concerns, fluoridation is “pollution by dilution” of the ecosystems with tons of industrial waste products each year. This problem is one that’s easy to end — once we have the political will — by just turning off the taps. Getting that political will can be greatly accelerated by your organization educating its membership as to the newer developments identified above and by joining in the movement to end fluoridation.
Despite 60 years of fluoridation, tooth decay remains rampant in many long-fluoridated areas of the US. The untold millions of dollars that are now spent on equipment, chemicals, monitoring, and promotion of fluoridation could be much better invested on nutrition education and targeted dental care for children from low income families who are known to suffer the greatest amount of tooth decay. The vast majority of other countries have done this. It is time for the US to recognize that the fluoridation program has failed to deliver its promise, poses unnecessary risks, and violates freedom of choice and medical ethics. Fluoridation must be ended now.
Signed:
Kenji Akiniwa, DDS, Akiniwa Dental Clinic, Editor, The Journal of the Japanese Society for Fluoride Research, Tokyo, Japan
Caree Alexander, BDSc, Dentist, Port Macquarie, NSW, Australia
Phillip M. Allen, MD, PhD, pathologist (retired), Wichita, KS
Robert Anderson, PhD, Tauranga, New Zealand
Sergio Apollonio, President, Malagrotta Committee, Rome, Italy
Douglas A. Balog, BS, MS, JD, Author of Law Review article on the illegality of artificial fluoridation, Palm Bay, Florida.
Billie Barewald, RN, Chair, Mountain View Citizens for Safe Drinking Water Mountain View, CA
James Beck, MD, PhD, Professor Emeritus of Medical Biophysics, University of Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Rosalie Bertell, PhD, Retired President, International Institute of Concern for Public Health, Toronto, Canada
Regent of the Board, International Physicians for Humanitarian Medicine, Geneva, Switzerland
Steve Breyman, PhD, Executive Director, Citizens’ Environmental Coalition, Albany, NY and Director, Ecological Economics, Values & Policy Program, Department of Science and Technology Studies, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY
Christopher Bryson, author of “The Fluoride Deception”, Seven Stories Press, 2004, paperback, 2006, NY, NY
Dennis Briggs, PhD, Neurofeedback specialist, Billings, MT
Ernesto Burgio, Pediatrician, Vice President, Scientific Committee ISDE (International Society of Doctors for Environment), Palermo, Italy
Larry Bowden, DMD, Aesthetic Dentistry of Lake Oswego, OR
Albert W. Burgstahler, PhD, Professor Emeritus of Chemistry, The University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas. Co-author with George L. Waldbott, MD, and H. Lewis McKinney, PhD, of “Fluoridation: The Great Dilemma” (Coronado Press, 1978) and editor since 1998 of the international quarterly journal Fluoride, published by the International Society for Fluoride Research (www.fluorideresearch.org).
Noel Campbell, BDSc, LDS, FACNEM, FASID, Visiting Professor, Hope Research Institute, Melbourne, Australia
Neil J. Carman, PhD, Clean air program director, Sierra Club Lone Star Chapter, Austin, TX
Robert J. Carton, PhD, former Chief of Environmental Compliance, U.S. Army Medical Research and Materiel Command, Fort Detrick, MD and former president of EPA professionals’ union.
Arthur Chiu, PhD, MD, Chair, Health and Safety Committee, NTEU Local Chapter 280, Pathologist/Toxicologist/National Center Environmental Assessment, Office Research and Development, US Environmental Protection Agency (identification purposes only), Washington, DC
Paul Connett, PhD, Professor Emeritus of Chemistry, St. Lawrence University and Executive Director of the Fluoride Action Network, Canton, NY
Ken Cook, Environmental Working Group, Washington, DC
Pat Costner, Science Advisor, GAIA, Science Advisor, IPEN, retired Senior Scientist, Greenpeace International
Joe Cummins, PhD, Professor Emeritus of Genetics, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada
Ronnie Cummins, National Director, Organic Consumers Association
Robert C Dickson, MD, CCFP, FCFP, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Mark Diesendorf, PhD, Director, Sustainability Centre, Sydney, Australia
David T. Doi, DDS, In private practice since 1979, Past President of Hawaii County Dental Society, Member of the International Academy of Oral Medicine & Toxicology, the Holistic Dental Association, the Academy of General Dentistry, and the American Dental Association, HI
Michael F. Dolan, PhD, Adjunct Professor, Department of Geosciences, UMASS, Amherst, MA
Daniel A. Durst, Esq., MHSA, Tinko Law Group, Meadville, PA
John C J Eaton MA (Cantab), MSI, F Inst D, England
David Egilman MD, MPH, Clinical Associate Professor, Brown University, Attleboro, MA
Lynn Howard Ehrle, MEd, Chair, International Science Oversight Board (a project of the Organic Consumers Association), Plymouth, MI
Doug. N. Everingham, MB, BS, Australian Health Minister 1972-75 , Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.
Mike Ewall, Director, ActionPA, Philadelphia, PA
Paula Fabbie, RDH, Practicing dental hygienist, Kingston, NY
Richard D Fischer DDS, FAGD, MIAOMT, past president, International Academy of Oral Medicine & Toxicology
Brent Foster, Executive Director, Columbia Riverkeeper, Oregon
Paul Gilbert, DDS, MAGD, AIAOMT, Practicing general dentist focusing on biological dentistry, Princeton, NJ
Dr. Harold L. Fox, President of EEMF, Inc., Salt Lake City, UT
Frank W. George, DO, MD(H), Affiliate Associate Professor, Midwestern University, AZ College of Osteopathic Medicine, Phoenix, AZ
George Gioumousis, PhD, Theoretical Chemistry, University of Wisconsin, 1955 (retired), Palo Alto CA
Mike Godfrey, MBBS, Tauranga, New Zealand
Dorothy Goldin-Rosenberg, MES, PhD, Toronto, Canada
Barry Groves, PhD (nutritional science), Independent researcher, Author of “Fluoride: Drinking Ourselves to Death?”, England
John Remington Graham, BA, LLB, Member of the Minnesota Bar, counsel for the plaintiffs in trials in Pennsylvania, Illinois, and Texas, resulting in judicial findings that artificial fluoridation of public water supplies induces large-scale cancer and other ailments in man.
Tomas Hernandez, MD, MPH, Neurologist, President, Public and Environmental Health Committee, Puerto Rico College of Physicians and Surgeons, San Juan, PR
W. Robert Hetrick, PhD, Research Coordinator, Fluoride Team of Kansas, Wichita, KS
J. William Hirzy, PhD, Vice-President, EPA Headquarters Professionals Union (NTEU Chapter 280), risk assessment expert and (for identification purposes only) ranking chemist at EPA headquarters, Washington, DC
Professor C. Vyvyan Howard, MB, ChB, PhD, FRCPath, Bioimaging Research Group, Centre for Molecular Bioscience, University of Ulster, Coleraine, Northern Ireland
Galina Husaruk, Thérapeute, Quebec
Robert L. Isaacson, Distinguished Professor, Binghamton University, Binghamton, NY. Member of the 2006 National Research Council panel which reviewed the toxicology of fluoride.
Antone G. Jacobson, PhD, Professor Emeritus of Molecular, Cell and Developmental Biology, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX
Junji Kato, MD, PhD, Miyachiyo Kato Clinic, Director of the Japanese Temperance Union, a member of Japanese Society for Fluoride Research, Japan
Joel M. Kauffman, PhD, Professor of Chemistry Emeritus, University of the Sciences in Philadelphia, author of “Malignant
Medical Myths,” Infinity Publ., West Conshohocken, PA
Taichi Kazuno, DDS, a member of Japanese Society for Fluoride Research, Beppu city, Japan
David Kennedy, DDS, Past President of the International Academy of Oral Medicine and Toxicology, San Diego, CA
Pam Killeen, co-author of the NY Times bestselling book, The Great Bird Flu Hoax.
Dan Knapp, PhD, (Sociology) CEO of Urban Ore, Incorporated, a reuse and recycling business in Berkeley, CA
Stephen M. Koral, DMD, Vice President International Academy of Oral Medicine and Toxicology, Boulder, CO
Ruth Greenwood Koss, RN, BS, MS, Retired school nurse in the public school system in Somerville, NJ
Lennart Krook, PhD, Professor Emeritus of Veterinary Medicine, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
Pierre Larose, DDS, FAGD, FIAOMT, Retired A/Major, Canadian Forces Dental Services, Fellow, Academy of General Dentistry, Founding member of the Quebec Holistic Dental Ass’n and currently, Vice-President International Academy of Oral Medicine and Toxicology, Montreal, Canada
Todd Lawson, DMD, Aesthetic Dentistry of Bellevue, WA
Hardy Limeback, PhD, DDS, Assoc. Professor and Head of Preventive Dentistry, University of Toronto, past president of the Canadian Association for Dental Research, and Member of the 2006 National Research Council panel which reviewed the toxicology of fluoride.
Mariann Lloyd-Smith, PhD, (Law) Senior Advisor, National Toxics Network Inc., East Ballina, NSW Australia
Robert Luby, MD, Faculty, Lawrence Family Medicine Residency, Lawrence, MA
Prof. Dr. Luc Hens, Vakgroep Menselijke Ecologie (Human Ecology Department), Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), Brussels, Belgium.
Don Mac Auley, BDS, Dental Surgeon and Chairman of Irish Dentists Opposing Fluoridation
L R B Mann PhD, (rtd) Senior Lecturer in Environmental Studies, University of Auckland, New Zealand
Laura McCarthy, Program Associate, Citizens’ Environmental Coalition, Albany, NY
Henry Micklem, PhD, Emeritus Professor of Immunobiology, University of Edinburgh, Scotland.
Rosemary Grace Minervini, RDH, MS, Retired Dental Hygienist, Master’s Degree in Dental Hygiene Administration, Education and Research, Lehi, UT
Peter Montague, PhD, Environmental Research Foundation, New Brunswick, N.J.
Pierre-Jean Morin, PhD, Director of medical research at Laval University Hospital (1973-1979) and principal author of La fluoration: autopsie d’une erreur scientifique (Éditions Berger, Eastman, QC, 2005) Quebec, Canada
Jeffrey Morris, PhD (Economics), Sound Resource Management, Olympia, WA
Alan Muller, Executive Director, Green Delaware, Port Penn, DE
Liliane Buffaut Mungo, Comitato Tutela Valdichiana, Italia Nostra, Arezzo, Italy
Tohru Murakami, DDS, PhD, former President of Japanese Society for Fluoride Research, former Vice President of Gunma prefectural Dental Association, Japan.
Akihiro Nagano, DDS, PhD, member of Japanese Society for Fluoride Research, Sizuokaken Japan
Shimizu Nakao, DDS, Kanome Dental Clinic, member of Japanese Society for Fluoride Research, director of Japanese Society for Tobacco Control, Hamatonbetsu, Hokkaido Prefecture, Japan
Hans H. Nehrlich, PhD, Private Practice Orthomolecular Medicine, ret. university lecturer, Australia and Germany
J. B. Neilands, PhD, Professor Emeritus of Biochemistry, University of California, Berkeley, CA
Richard Olree, DC, 26 years of practice, Co - Author of “Minerals for the Genetic Code”, Hillman, MI
E.M.T. O’Nan, Director, Protect All Children’s Environment, Marion, NC
Bill Osmunson, DDS, MPH, Aesthetic Dentistry of Bellevue, WA and Lake Oswego, OR; Director of the Institute for Advanced Dental Studies, Host for the TV Series, “The Doctor’s Corner”, Lake Oswego, OR
Robert Pocock, fluoride spokesperson for VOICE for the Irish Environment, Dublin, Ireland
Myles A Preble, DMD, Dental Studio, Salt Lake City, UT
Perry O. Roehl, PhD, Distinguished Professor of Geology, emeritus, Trinity University, San Antonio, TX
Nathalie Roussy, dental hygienist, Longueuil, Quebec
Paul G. Rubin, DDS, MIAOMT, Seattle, WA
Ralph Anthony Ryder, Director, Communities Against Toxics UK, Editor; TOXCAT, Ellesmere Port, UK
Bittu Sahgal, Editor, Sanctuary magazine, Mumbai, India
Mageswari Sangaralingam (Masters in Environmental Management), Research Officer, Consumers Association of Penang, Malaysia.
Bryony Schwan, MS, Executive Director, The Biomimicry Institute, and affiliate faculty at the University of Montana’s Environment Studies program, Missoula, MT
Alfred A. Siess, Jr., BCE, MBA, Environmental/Economic Consultant (Ret. Engineering Executive), Lehigh Valley, PA
Karilee H. Shames, PhD, RN, Advance Practice Holistic Nurse, co-author ”Feeling Fat, Fuzzy or Frazzled?” and “Thyroid Power”, San Rafael, CA
Richard L. Shames, MD, 35 years GP experience, co-author ”Feeling Fat, Fuzzy or Frazzled?” and “Thyroid Power”, San Rafael, CA
Mary Shomon, Leading thyroid patient advocate and best-selling author of the Thyroid Diet, http://www.thyroid-info.com
Caroline Snyder, PhD, Professor Emeritus, Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester NY
Bruce Spittle MB ChB DPM FRANZCP, Managing Editor of Fluoride, Quarterly Journal of the International Society for Fluoride Research, Dunedin, New Zealand
W. Gary Sprules, MA, PhD, Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
Daniel G. Stockin, MPH, Senior Operations Officer, The Lillie Center, Inc.
Prof. Dr. Anna Strunecka, DSc, Professor Emeritus of Physiology, Faculty of Sciences Charles University Prague, Czech Republic
Kathleen Thiessen, PhD, Senior Scientist, SENES Oak Ridge, Inc., Center for Risk Analysis, Oak Ridge, Member of the 2006 National Research Council panel which reviewed the toxicology of fluoride. Oak Ridge, TN
Joseph W. Tinko, Esq., Tinko Law Group, Meadville, PA
Chris Vermeire, Journalist, Antwerp, Belgium
Murray J. Vimy, BA, DMD, practicing dentist and Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine, Dept. of Endocrinology and Metabolism, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Mati Waiya, Executive Director, Wishtoyo Foundation, Ventura Coastkeeper, Ventura, CA
Barbara Warren RN, MS in Environmental Health Science, Warren Environmental & Health Consulting Services, Inc. NY
Robin N Watkins, DO, MSCC, UK trained Osteopathic Practitioner, member of the General Osteopathic Council and British Osteopathic Association, Newcastle upon Tyne, England
Craig E. Williams, Director: Kentucky Environmental Foundation, Director: Chemical Weapons Working Group, Recipient: 2006 Goldman Environmental Prize, KY
Bill Wilson, Past President New Zealand Pure Water Association, Auckland, New Zealand
Councilor Arnold Woolley, DipIM, MCMI, Rtd. Senior Police Officer, past JP and current environmental activist, North Wales, UK
Mae W. Woo, DDS, Billings, MT
Patti Wood, Executive Director, Grassroots Environmental Education, Port Washington, NY
Joyce R. Young, ND, IBCLC, Private Practice Physician with a speciality in Environmental Medicine, Portland, Oregon
Matthew Young DDS, PA, Member and director of the International Academy of Oral Medicine and Toxicology, Hendersonville, NC
Mag. Dipl.-Ing. Dr.techn. Rudolf Ziegelbecker, Graz, Austria
Loty Zilberman, MSc, Chemical Engineer, Environmental and Toxicological Consultant, Israel
John Zimmerman, PhD, in Biological Psychology and Neuroscience.from the University of Colorado, Boulder. Owner and Director of a four-bed sleep disorders center in Reno, Nevada.
Quotes:
Phillip Allen: “It should be noted that the health risks associated with the use of fluoride in drinking water outweigh, to a significant degree, the slight benefits from that use.”
Albert Burgstahler: “Why are so many public health officials afraid to admit they could be wrong about things they have stuck their neck out on? Does their desire to preserve their credibility mean more to them than the wellbeing and good health of their fellow citizens?”
Noel Campbell: “The risk/benefit ratio based on peer reviewed research is now too high to allow fluoridation of water.”
Ronnie Cummins: “The Organic Consumers Association supports a ban on water fluoridation. America’s 50 million health and environmental- minded organic consumers are not only concerned with the purity of their food, but the purity of their water as well. Ban water fluoridation now!”
John Eaton: “I have actively opposed compulsory Fluoridation for over 40 years. As a lawyer, I am only too well aware of how our individual freedoms are being continually threatened and eroded - and the freedom to refuse unwanted medication is one of the most important freedoms we enjoy. A totalitarian measure like fluoridation sets an extremely dangerous precedent, and opens up an avenue which we should simply not go down. The effect of fluorides on tooth enamel, and the effect of ingesting a cumulative enzyme poison, may well be a dental and a medical question respectively, for the experts - but whether to use public water supplies for conveying medication to all consumers, irrespective of their needs and wishes is an entirely ethical question, on which the opinion of the lowest-paid, least-educated manual worker should carry just as much weight as the most highly-qualified President of the Medical and Dental Professions - they are all water-consumers, and should all have an equal say in what poisons or medication they ingest.”
Doug Everingham: “Half a century ago as a public medical officer and as a family doctor I published support for fluoridation in my country following U.S.A. example. When challenged I spent hours studying evidence on both sides and each decade have become more convinced that I was wrong. Public water fluoridation breaks the near-universal toxicological precautionary principle that requires providers to prove medicator safety, not dissenters to prove medicator harm.“
Paul Gilbert: “It’s really an irony that the ADA relies on old, outdated “science” to support its pro fluoride position, and then has the nerve to say that we use “junk science”. I believe that the ADA is now about as professionally corrupt as it can get. The ADA is an embarrassment to real research scientists.”
George Gioumousis: “I realized that the practice was completely false and deceptive when my wife brought home a copy of the pamphlet on Fluoride and the AEC. After reading the article it was very clear to me that we had been deceived and misled. It is clear that the honest scientific research that has been done on the effects of fluoride on the body all validates the basic truth that fluoride compounds are very toxic substances. We should avoid them as assiduously as we try to avoid exposure to mercury, arsenic and lead which have the same level of acute toxicity as fluoride compounds.”
Barry Groves: “When I was researching my book, (“Fluoride: Poisoning Ourselves to Death”) I was astonished by the utter lack of knowledge within the dental profession (in the UK), and with their apparent unwillingness even to consider trying to find out the truth of this measure. Furthermore, isn’t medication without consent contrary to UN human rights legislation?”
Robert Isaacson: “The Health of the entire country is at risk as long as fluoridation of the drinking water remains uncurbed.”
Ruth Greenwood Koss: “Our school dentist screened and recorded the elementary school students annually. In my opinion the thirty years I assisted in dental screening there appeared to be little or no evidence of benefit from fluoridation and I venture to say oral health continued to decline every year.”
Robert Mann: “As the main supervisor of John Colquhoun’s Ph.D on fluoridation, I am glad to add my name to your Statement. Systemic (as opposed to topical) benefit to teeth from fluoridation is unproven; indeed the evidence strongly suggests there is no benefit from systemic fluoride. The harm from fluoridation is real, at least with dental fluorosis; and the evidence for other, more harmful side-effects is worrying enough that, in the absence of significant benefit, Fluoridation should be stopped.”
Rosemary Minervini: “Countless peer-reviewed scientific research publications show that the risks of fluoridation far out number any claims of its so called benefits.”
Bittu Sahgal: “Each human being is unique. Nature has an unique relationship with each one of us. The “one size fits all” fluoridation formula amounts to ‘poisoning Peter to pay Paul’ and that is nothing short of immoral.”
Mageswari Sangaralingam: “Fluoridation is mass medication with an uncontrolled dose, and violates the individual’s right to informed consent. We need to end the harmful practice of water fluoridation in the US and all other countries which still add fluoride in public drinking water.”
Mary Shomon: “Fluoride ingestion increases the risk for thyroid disease, among many health concerns. Given the epidemic of thyroid problems, as a patient advocate, I’m convinced that our health is far better served by minimizing the intake of this unnecessary toxin.”
Alfred Siess: “When I studied fluoridation, as a Civil Engineering student 52 years ago, very little was taught about the effects of Fluoride… In my opinion, those “professionals” who advocate fluoridation of the public water supply as “safe” and “effective,” where the whole body of scientific evidence shows it is neither, should lose their professional license and should NOT be shielded from civil suits or criminal liability where fluoridated water causes damage.”
Robin Watkins: “I was shocked to find out that around 50% of the Newcastle population (population = 365,000) have Dental Fluorosis. So a huge number of local people have degrees of Chronic Fluoride Toxicosis. I also have a letter from a former Primary Trust Chief Executive which states that is not my Right to receive Fluoride-Free water. I could not believe that a professional in such a position could make such a crass statement.”
Bill Wilson: “I am sure my old friend, the late John Colquhoun, BDS, M Phil, Dip Ed(Syd), M. Phil(Auck), PhD of Auckland, New Zealand would have loved to have joined this august company. He is probably remembered by many of you as a pro-fluoride advocate, who, late in life (1981), discovered the error of his ways and spent the remainder of his life strongly opposing fluoridation.”
Councilor Arnold Woolley: “I have spent most of my life evaluating evidence, including 22 years as a public prosecutor in various courts. In my opinion, the case against fluoridation of water supplies is evidentially sound.”
Matthew Young: “I have been studying all the relevant science in relation to fluoride and can only come to one conclusion. It was added to our water for the sole purpose of avoiding government law suits as a result of accidental human exposure from industrial greed and government cover up.”
Rudolf Ziegelbecker: “I want to emphasize the fact that nowhere in Europe, where fluoridation has been stopped, has there been an increase of dental caries observed afterwards. Also, when collecting new, random data about natural fluoride content of drinking waters and dental caries from the WHO databases in Geneva in 1987, I could not find a trace of a benefit of (natural) fluoride in drinking water.”
Loty Zilberman: “For many years I have studied the relevant publications about water fluoridation, and as a former worker in a big drug company (Pharmacopee), I was a member of the Committee to approve drugs. I know very well the danger of receiving an overdose of dangerous substances. This is the case with water fluoridation.”
John Zimmerman: “I am opposed to water fluoridization because the benefits do not outweigh the risks.”
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