FAN Bulletin 2007

December 18, 2009

In two days we have received two stories from Australia that vividly remind us that the fight against water fluoridation worldwide is a fight for integrity - integrity in science and integrity in public life. The stories are of opposites. They both come from Queensland. One illustrates integrity in public service and the other illustrates a lack of integrity in academia and communications. One illustrates what we are fighting for and the other represents what we are fighting against.

FUNDRAISER UPDATE. Before we get to these stories here is an update on our annual fundraiser. To date we have raised $13,581 from 100 donors (this includes $1000 from FAN’s “angel” who pledged this amount if we got 100 people to donate). But we still have a long way to go to reach our goal of $50,000 by midnight Dec 31. Can we do it?

See donation details below.

If you haven’t sent in a donation yet please consider doing so. You might consider doing so in honor of water department personnel who at great risk to their jobs, speak out against fluoridation. This was the plight this week of Graham Demeny in Rockhampton, Queensland, Australia.

INTEGRITY UPHELD. Demeny, an official at a public waterworks, resigned after 15 years of service because he refused to be part of putting fluoridating chemicals into the drinking water and thereby forcing it on many citizens who don’t want it. We wish there were more people like him. See the story at http://www2.fluoridealert.org/Alert/Australia/Rockampton-Water-department-employee-resigns-over-adding-fluoride

Over the years we have met several people who work for water departments and are opposed to fluoridation. The thread that unites them is their sense of responsibility to perform their job with integrity. To date, 36 individuals connected to water departments have signed the Professional Statement. See their names below. We particularly remember Wally Babb, a water plant worker in Dalton, Georgia, who in November 2008 was fired for refusing to place the order for the fluoridation chemicals.

INTEGRITY DENIED. The other story comes from Mackay, Queensland. This is about a stage-managed panel of four “experts” who tout the party line on the “safety” and “effectiveness” of fluoridation as if this was based on fact rather than fiction. It is very hard to believe that these ‘”experts” could have read the US National Research Council review of 2006, and believe that there are no health concerns. And if they haven’t read this definitive 507-page NRC review on fluoride’s toxicity then they have no right to pose as experts on the matter. It is also staggering to hear one of them talk about studies done in Australia when in fact virtually NO health studies have been conducted there on the the health of fluoridated communities.

This story also demonstrates a lack of integrity among those who stage managed this one sided, self-serving exercise in fooling the public.

If you are a glutton for punishment try listening to their glib audio testimony at
http://www.aussmc.org/fluoridebriefing171209.php

When we finally end fluoridation it will be the greatest victory ever for integrity in science and public life. We pledge to do everything we can with your donation to make that victory happen.

HERE’S HOW TO DONATE:

* By Credit Card via our secure online server at https://secure.groundspring.org/dn/index.php?aid=5061

* By check, payable to Fluoride Action Network. Send to Paul Connett, 82 Judson Street, Canton NY 13617

* The least painful option and available to those who want to get one of the gifts below: make a recurring monthly donation at https://secure.groundspring.org/dn/index.php?aid=5061 — this is the option that Paul and I use.

FOR A DONATION OF $60:

* The Fluoride Deception (2004), by Christopher Bryson, 374 pages.
Read reviews at http://fluoridealert.org/fluoride-deception.htm

or

* Fluoride Fatigue (2008), by Bruce Spittle, 78 pages.

FOR A DONATION OF $40:

* A copy of the April-June 2008 issue of the Fluoride journal. This volume contains translations of 12 brain studies that FAN had translated from Chinese.

or

* A copy of the fancy boxed DVD, Professional Perspectives on Water Fluoridation
This contains the 5 minute segment of FAN’s most popular video vignette with Bill Osumunson, which has over 187,000 viewers on YouTube - see http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Ys9q1cvKGk

FOR A DONATION OF $25:
A copy of the same DVD, but in a plain box
If you are donating online please email us if you wish to receive one of these gifts.

Paul Connett

Signers of the Professionals’ Statement calling for an end to fluoridation:

CANADA
Susie Bankert, Water Treatment Level 1, Welland, Ontario
Henry Dudgeon, 3rd Class Water/ 2nd Class Sewage, Water and Wastewater Plant Operator, Dryden, Ontario
Leonard A. Dyck, Ontario Class IV Operator, Dryden Water Treatment Plant, Ontario
Barry Hardy , WT III, WWT II, Chief Operator Water & Waste Water Treatment Plants, Dryden, Ontario
Len Swanson, 3rd Class Water Operator, Dryden, Ontario
Gordie Wright, Ontario Class 3 Certificate, Dryden Water Treatment Plant Operator, Ontario

UK
Ronald Large, Inspector of Works (retired), Hampshire Water District, Southampton, Hampshire, England

US
James Allison, Office Manager & Licensed Water Operator, Carroll-Boone Water District, Eureka Springs, AR
Peter Alteri, Water Superintendent, Town of Cortlandville, NY
William Babb, holds licenses from the State of Georgia: Water Treatment Plant Operator Class I, Wastewater Plant Operator Class I, Water Lab Analyst, and Wastewater Lab Analyst, Lafayette, GA
Glen M. Bailes, Safety Manager/Licensed Water Operator, Carroll-Boone Water District, Eureka Springs, AR
Michael Brunovsky, Maintenance Supervisor Water Filtration Plant, City of Allentown, PA
Stuart Burr, Grade 3 water plant operator, Mount Desert, ME
Alfred Carrelli, Class II Water Treatment License, Supervisor - 2 MGD Ion Exchange, Iron Removal Water Treatment Plant, Pataskala, OH
William Collins, Superintendant of Water and Wastewater for City of Elroy, WI
Steve Corcoran, Former Supervisor of Water Department, Village of Rouses Point, NY
Rene W. Fonseca, licensed water operator, Carroll-Boone Water District, Eureka Springs, AR
Todd L. Grosh, Industrial Mechanic for the Philadelphia Water Dept., Hazmat Responder, Philadelphia, PA
Bret Grossnickle, Water department worker, Westminister, MD, Mayor, Union Bridge, MD
James A. Gruber, former water superintendent, Lakeview Park Water Association (retired after 24 years service), near Soap Lake, WA
William Hamilton, 1A Water Operator Certificate, Canton Water Department, Canton, NY
Francisco Hernandez, Electrical Mechanical Applied Science (USAF), Chicago Department of Water Management, Chicago, IL
Mark Johnson, Water Operator / Lab Director, Mt. Desert Water District, Mount Desert, ME
Preston Killcrease, Water Treatment Class IV, Water Production Class IV, Water Distribution Class IV, Denham Springs, LA
Richard J. Kipp, Water Superintendent, City of Defiance, OH
Larry V. Landry, Superintendent, Office of Water and Sewerage, T.L. Amiss Water Purification Plant, Shreveport, LA
Alli Larkin, President, Board of Commissioners, King County Water District 54, Des Moines, WA
John McLean, Water System Manager (#5829) in the state of Washington, Camano Island, WA
Stephen P. Montminy, Water plant Operator, Mount Desert, ME
Frank M. Mora, JD, Chairman of the Poughkeepsies’ Joint Water Board, past Council Member and Chairman of the City of Poughkeepsie Common Council, Poughkeepsie, NY
Jeff Pangman, Superintendent, Cobleskill Water Department; New York State Rural Water Association’s 2002 Water Plant Operator of the Year; Cobleskill, NY
Sara Paradise, BS, Operator of water district, Jackman, ME, Cobleskill Water Department; New York State Rural Water Association’s 2002 Water Plant
Grant Ritter, 30 year Water plant operator/superintendent, Juneau, AK Operator of the Year; Cobleskill, NY
David Schorno, Waste Water treatment Operator group II, Sedro-Woolley, WA
Paul G. Slack, BS Industrial Engineering, Grade IV Water Treatment Operator License, Manager, Mount Desert Water District, Northeast Harbor, ME
W. E. Stambaugh, Kentucky Drinking Water Operator Class IV-A, Lab Superisor, KWWOA/KLA Lab Analyst I, KCMLCP Lab Analyst, OSHA certified 10 hour instructor, HAZMAT Technician Level II, Ashland, KY
Joseph Zirille, Indiana Department of Environmental Management (IDEM) Grade DSL Water Distribution Operator License GISP (Geographic Information System Professional), Granger, IN