FAN Bulletin 909

December 22, 2007

Dear All,

Our second matching challenge grant has worked its magic. Since it was issued midday yesterday we have raised another $1,700 – that has earned us $3,400 – bringing our current total to $19,995 towards our 2008 fluoridation fighting fund.

There is still $800 left in the matching grant, if we can raise that amount before Christmas eve, so if you want your donation doubled please send in your contribution as soon as possible by going to  http://www.FluorideALERT.org and clicking on the Donate link at the top of the page. Alternatively, you may simply write out a check to AEHSP and send it to AEHSP, 82 Judson Street, Canton, NY 13617. But let us know that you have done so so that we can count it as sum to be doubled.

Remember your contributions are tax deductible (through our parent body the American Environmental Health Studies Project, AEHSP, which has 5013c status). Don’t give it to Uncle Sam give it to us!

Did your community win a victory this year (i.e. Did you defeat a fluoridation proposal, or did you halt an existing program)?   If so, would you consider sending us a short paragraph on your successful campaign. To what do you attribute your success? A compilation of these stories will make for exciting reading.

A New Book on Fluoride

The following is from Dr. Bruce Spittle, Managing Editor of Fluoride:
 
A new, vi & 66 page, book “Fluoride Poisoning: is fluoride in your drinking water–and from other sources–making you sick?”  by Bruce Spittle, with forewords by Professor Emeritus Albert Burgstahler and Professor Dr AK Susheela, published by Paua Press, Dunedin, New Zealand,  is being launched on January 1 2008,
 
The recommended retail prices are NZ$17.99, A$15.99 or US$13.99 but as a special offer to FAN and NYSCOF readers it is available, including postage, for NZ$11.99, A$10.99 or US$9.99 from B Spittle, 727 Brighton Road, Dunedin 9035, New Zealand (E-mail spittle@es.co.nz), cash or cheque made out to B Spittle, or pay by PayPal to spittle@es.co.nz, after registering first with PayPal at  www.PayPal.com.
 
An abridged, vi & 32 page, version called Fluoride Fatigue (38 pages) is also available: recommended retail prices NZ$9.99, A$8.99 or US$7.99 with the special prices for FAN and NYSCOF readers, including postage, of NZ$7.99, A$6.99 or US$5.99.
 
Everything in the abridged version, Fluoride fatigue, is also covered in the longer version, Fluoride poisoning. Both versions cover the clinical features of chronic fluoride toxicity but the longer version also replies to the criticism that the condition is “psychosomatic” or due to any number of unrecognized causes.
 
The books are also available, at the recommended retail price plus post and packing, at www.renaissancebooks.co.nz and at www.abebooks.com. These outlets allow for payment by credit card without having to register with PayPal.
 
A limited number of copies are available at present but a further printing is planned for mid-January 2008 and, if the present stock is insufficient, any books ordered now will be posted at the end of January  2008.

Bruce’s new book stems from a paper he delivered in Beijing at the 27th conference of the ISFR. In this paper he described the experience of a neighbor who lives near his home in Dunedin, New Zealand. For years she had terrible debilitating symptoms which no doctors could cure. She heard that Bruce was using reverse osmosis water and asked him if she could have some to see if it would help. It did. She has been symptom free for several years since and she is now in her eighties. I suspect that several of our readers can relate to that story. Governments which promote and practice fluoridation studiously ignore these stories as well as the case studies of the late Dr. George Waldbott.

For the victim these experiences are harrowing and sometimes even life threatening, but for the governments who zealously promote fluoridation, they are invisible. This is another important reason why this practice must be halted worldwide. Please help us do that in 2008.

Paul Connett