FAN BULLETIN 2002

December 7, 2009

Before we share with you the exciting response to Mildura’s appeal for help, we have just had some really depressing news.

New Jersey delivers a kick in the teeth

Today the New Jersey Senate Health Committee passed a bill which would require MANDATORY fluoridation for New Jersey (see BREAKING NEWS at http://fluoridealert.org/ for links to story). The bill now goes to the full Senate. Who elects these people into office? Is there a requirement that NJ State Senators musn’t read anything? I’m afraid this is going to keep on happening until the whole world has succumbed to this nonsense, unless we get better organized. But we all know how tough that is, without a huge budget, and without investigative journalists prepared to act as professionals instead of conduits for the dental lobby (and all the other lobbies which provide them with easy-to-digest-and-reprint press releases).

Meanwhile, without the support of any major environmental organization (except our valiant friends in the Environmental Working Group) we have no way of getting our message out to thousands and thousands of people. Perhaps this NJ threat will wake up the Clean Water Action (a national group that remains sitting on the fence on this issue despite its name) because it has a very strong chapter in NJ: the NJ Environmental Federation.

It makes me quite nauseous how groups that claim to have a scientific and/or medical basis for their agendas such as the Union of Concerned Scientists and Physicians for Social Responsibility can let our cries for help go unheeded.

So please if you have any contacts in any of these organizations this is a time to fire a huge rocket in their direction. It is bad enough that we have governmental regulatory bodies that our paid by taxpayers to protect their health, working for the other side, like the FDA, the EPA and, of course, the CDC, but it is a bitter pill to swallow when environmental and public health organizations who go to the public for their hard earned money - promising something different (including scientific integrity!) - play the same game.

Meanwhile, please warn everyone you know in NJ that they are about to get mandatory fluoridation unless they start organizing right now. Please send us any contacts so that we can put them in touch with one another.

If people won’t get upset about being forced to take medicine in their drinking water what will they get upset about? It is incredible to me that so many are prepared to be accept assurances from people, agencies and organizations which I wouldn’t trust to run a bicycle store.

The only thing in my life that gives me hope is the grass roots movement, together with a handful of professionals who act with integrity and courage. Unlike government agencies and the major environmental groups, they can usually tell the difference between science and hogwash, and are prepared to say so. Thus it is exciting now to turn to their magnificent response to Mildura.

Worldwide response to Mildura, Victoria

Little Mildura’s public stand against forced fluoridation is generating floods of emails from around the world. “The Little town (city) that roared” has touched a chord of empathy and anger around the world. It is fast becoming the “little planet that roared.”

Professionals and citizens from many countries have emailed Daniel Zalec to have their name added to the list of people calling for Dr. Carnie’s resignation. In addition, some professionals have written their own personal letters to the Victorian Health Minister Daniel Andrews explaining their concerns (I have printed three personal letters below). The current list of signers can be found on our website at http://fluoridealert.org/australia.carnie.letter.html- but it is hard to keep up with the huge outpouring. We will update this daily.

Please keep those emails rolling in.

If you want your name added to the letter email Daniel Zalec with a one line description of yourself along with your town, state and country.

If you want to send an email directly to the Health Minister, please send this to Daniel Andrews, Health Minister of Victoria

Dear Minister Andrews,

I would like to add my name to the list of those citizens and scientists around the world who are calling for the resignation of Dr. John Carnie (add a one line identifier of yourself).
Please feel free to add words of your own, or substitute your own statement.

Please bcc me at
and Daniel Zalec . Daniel is with the group organizing this effort ? the Anti-Fluoridation Association of Mildura.

So far people have sent in their support from all over Australia (South Australia, NSW, Victoria, Western Australia), Canada (Alberta, Ontario, Quebec, Sakatchewan), France, Israel, Italy, New Zealand, South Africa, Tanzania, the UK (England, Scotland) and from all over the US (Alaska, Arizona, California, Connecticut, Colorado, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Idaho, Louisiana, Nevada, New Hampshire, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Texas, Vermont, Washington and Wisconsin).

Paul Connett

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Personal letters to Victorian Health Minister Daniel Andrews.

1) From John Beard, PhD, Microbial biochemist (retired), Cambridge, UK

Dear Minister Andrews,

I would like to add my name to the list of those citizens and scientists around the world who are calling for the resignation of Dr. John Carnie.

I fully share the outrage expressed in the letter from The Anti-Fluoridation Association of Mildura which was sent to you on December 4, 2009.

It is intolerable that the un-ethical standards and practices inherent in the fluoridation “movement” are still being pursued and permitted all over the world.

What is the matter with these people? Can they not see that any form of mass medication implemented via the water supply is immoral and unethical, affecting as it does all ages with no escape in a potentially dangerous exercise?

If Victoria’s Chief Health Officer is worried that some people in his care are not getting enough fluoride he should try to buy toothpastes and mouthwashes from his local store which do not contain fluoride, and his failure or difficulty in this exercise should provide all the reassurance he needs that it is quite unnecessary to expose tiny babies, chronically sick adults, and the elderly to a potentially dangerous chemical forced upon them by the water supply.

If this exercise does not convince him that his proposed course of action is unethical and unnecessary then he should resign forthwith and make space for someone with greater intellectual rigour.

Your help in this matter would be greatly appreciated.
Yours sincerely

John Beard M.A., Ph.D.
Microbial biochemist (retired)
Cambridge, UK

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2) From Richard L. Shames MD and Karilee H. Shames PhD, RN, San Rafael, California

We would like to add our names to the list of those citizen scientists from around the world who call for the resignation of Dr. John Carnie. We are a Medical Doctor and Advance Practice Nurse, authors of thyroid books, and we know the damage fluoride can cause to thyroid sufferers the world over. Forcing this product on people means you, As Health Minister, will be responsible for the health decline of many people in this community. It is a bad idea and must not occur.

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3) Elizabeth Ramsay, author and long-time student of the dangers inherent in flouridation of public water supplies, Jerusalem, Israel (Note: Elizabeth Ramsey is the daughter of the late Dr. George Waldbott (co-author of Fluoridation: The Great Dilemma) a leading fluoridation opponent in the US from the 1950s until he passed away, PC).

I would like to add my name to the list of those citizens and scientists around the world who are calling for the resignation of Dr. John Carnie as I am just as outraged as each one of them by your government’s continued efforts to force fluoridation on communities without giving citizens a chance to vote on the matter…

Many thanks for your thoughtful consideration in this matter.

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