On Fluoridation Of Drinking Water

Not in My Water Supply
Margo Roosevelt Bellingham
Time, October 24, 2005 p62-63.
“But much has changed since 1945, starting with our toothpastes.
Today fluoride is an ingredient in most brands of dentifrice on the
market. Because toothpaste is designed to be spit out, it’s a more
efficient way to get the decay-fighting ingredient where it is
needed and nowhere else. Even some dentists, who see firsthand the
benefits of fluoridation, wonder whether people who get fluoride
from toothpaste should get it in their drinking water as well.”

Did researchers ask right questions about fluoridation?
Monday, July 25, 2005
By Sharon Begley, The Wall Street Journal
[as reprinted in the Pittsburg-Post Gazette]
When health officials decided to add fluoride to the water supply of
Grand Rapids, Mich., in 1945, they plunged ahead despite the lack of
a rigorous, large-scale study of the risks and benefits. And for
most of the next 60 years, fluoridation research has gone pretty
much like that. It has not been science’s finest hour.

Apologize for Fluoridation; Don’t Celebrate It, Say Experts
Fluoride Action Network, May 9, 2005

Coronet
Investigation
Special Report, Tampa Tribune, January 15, 2005

Toothpaste label revs up some anxiety
Susan
Ager (313-222-6862), Detroit Free Press, January
13, 2005

Drop fluoride, advocate says
Ryan Morgan [(303)
473-1333], Staff Writer,
Daily Camera,
October 25, 2004

First Citizens’ Conference
on Fluoride
July 30 - Aug 3, 2004
Paul Connett,
Fluoride Action Network,
August 5, 2004

Letter from Pinellas
County Public Utilities to Pinellas County Healthcare Professional
June 14, 2004
This letter advises healthcare professionals to stop prescribing
fluoride supplements now that the county adds fluoride to the water supply

A Letter to BCC Chairman Suasan
Latvala
Charles White to
Commissioner Susan Latvala, May 24, 2004
Fluoridation as reported in the
St. Petersburg Times
Articles and letters that have appeared in the
St. Petersburg Times
on the issue of fluoridation from January 2000 to date.
Speeches to the Pinellas County Board of County Commissioners 2004
Pinellas County
Utilities pamphlet debunked
Undocumented statements made in the pamphlet,
Fluoridated Water
in Pinellas County: Whats In It For You, mailed to Pinellas
County residents by the Pinellas County Utilities Department in Jan. 2004
are answered point-by-point with documented fact.

Fluoride: the debate goes on
James Beck and Robert Dickson,
Calgary Herald, May 1, 2004

Two Calgary experts challenge conventional wisdoms of fluoridated
water

FAN Bulletin #19
Fluoride Action Network, April 5, 2004
Exposure to high fluoride concentrations in drinking water is
associated with decreased birth rates.

Fluoridation sneaks
up on Pinellas County,
Susan Stockton, February 2004
The
Fluoride Debate, Susan Stockton, February 2004

Fluoride: The
Protected Pollutant, Susan Stockton, February 2004


Fluoride: Friend or Foe?
David De Santo, January 13, 2004.

Fluoridated Water in Pinellas County: Whats In It For You,
January 2004
Pamphlet produced and distributed by Pinellas County Utilities
Department, January 2004 to residents of Pinellas County Florida
explaining the benefits of fluoridated water.


Where Does Fluoride Come From?
Sally Stride, Suite University, Jan. 1, 2004

How To Avoid ‘Health Care’: The Six-Fold Path to Optimum Health,
Donald W. Miller, Jr., MD and Linda L. Miller, October 24, 2003.


A Petition to all [who support] Water Fluoridation
September 2003
On September 2, 2003 leading scientists from around the world issued
a joint statement urging an end to what they call a cover-up of the
public health risks posed by decades of water fluoridation.
The Fluoride Controversy
Continues: An Update
Part 1,
Part 2,
Part 3
Gary Null and Martin Feldman,
Townsend Letter for Doctors and
Patients, Dec 2002-Feb 2003

Artificial fluoridation of public water supplies
John Remington
Graham, Letter to The St. Petersburg Times, January 5, 2002.
A letter from attorney John Remington Graham, urging the Pinellas
County Commissioners to “just say no” to fluoride


Silicofluorides and Higher Blood Levels
Dr. Roger Masters,
Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, June 17,
2001
Data from numerous studies show that…where silicofluorides are
used, children absorb more lead from the environment, and there are
higher rates of diseases and behavioral problems associated with
lead poisoning (including hyperactivity, substance abuse, and
violent crime).

The toxic toothpaste Simon Crompton,
UK Times, May 16, 2001.

Vice President of EPA’s Scientist Union Testifies Against Fluoridation
June 29, 2000.


America: Overdosed on Fluoride,
Lynn Landes & Maria Bechis, updated
June 2000

Should Natick Fluoridate? A Report to the Town and the Board
of Selectmen Prepared by the Natick Fluoridation Study Committee 13
E. Central Street, Town of Natick, MA October 23, 1997
1997 study by an independent blue-ribbon panel who reviewed the
information presented by proponents and opponents of fluoridation.
They recommended unanimously that the city NOT fluoridate.


Oral Health in America: Fluoridation, Tooth Loss and Oral Cancer
Pro-fluoride Oral Health America 2002 Survey actually found that
states with the most widespread fluoridation had the lowest
percentage of people who still had their teeth!

Dangers
of Fluoride, Andreas Schuld

Death in the Air

Phosphoric Acid Production and Airborne Fluorides: Stories compiled
and edited by George Glasser, November 1998


Scientists at Drug Company Admit That Fluoride Causes Gum/Mouth
Disease From Patent #5,807,541 “NSAID/fluoride periodontal
compositions and methods” (15 Sept 1998), filed by the
pharmaceutical company Sepracor:
A method for preventing dental caries [cavities] by administering
fluoride and, at the same time controlling periodontal bone loss
precipitated by the fluoride, by providing a combination of fluoride
and NSAID is disclosed.


The
Absurdities Of Water Fluoridation,
Paul Connett, PhD 10-1-3


It’s Pollution, Stupid,
George Glasser

A Chronology of Fluoridation
Val Valerian,
Leading Edge Research
Group, November 3, 1997.

TOXIC
SECRETS - Fluoride & the A-Bomb Program
Joel Griffiths and Chris Bryson 1997
During the ultra-secret Manhattan Project, a report was commissioned
to assess the effect of fluoride on humans. That report was
classified “secret” for reasons of “national security”.

Why I
Changed My Mind About Water Fluoridation
John Colquhoun, DDS, PhD, 1997
I was so articulate and successful in my support of water
fluoridation that my … superiors in our capital city …
approached me and asked me to make fluoridation the subject of a
world study tour in 1980 after which I would become their expert
on fluoridation and lead a campaign to promote fluoridation in those
parts of New Zealand which had resisted … fluoride….

Health Effects of Ingested Fluoride
Subcommittee on the the Health Effects of Ingested Fluoride,
National Research Council, 1993
The subcommittee found inconsistencies in the fluoride toxicity
data base and gaps in knowledge…EPAs interim standard of 4mg/L
[for fluoride in drinking water] should be reviewed when results of
new research become available and, if necessary, revised
accordingly.

Even
toothpaste poses risk to children
Dear Abby, St. Petersburg Times, 11/2/91

Fluoride is
corroding water pipes in A’dale
Colleen Deslaurier, staff writer, 4/18/91
[Auburndale, Florida] City officials may have to decide if the
health benefits outweigh the cost of maintenance. The fluoride
accelerates the wear and tear at all the water facilities.

Letter from Utilities
Director to City Manager in Aburndale, Florida,
Raymond Allred, Utilities Director to Robert R. Green City Manager
4/12/91
In 1991, the Director of Utilities of Aburndale, Fl wrote a letter
the the City Manager detailing the safety hazards and liability of
continued use of Hydrofluorosilicic Acid to fluoridate the city’s
water.

Letter
from [Florida] State Health Office to [St. Petersburg] Director of
Inner City Governmental Relations, May 7, 1990
Letter describes tactics for getting local government to implement a
fluoridation program

“…boy (3) dies after routine topical fluoride
…”
Robert D.
McFadden, New York Times, Jan 20, 1979

Food, Not Fluoride, Reduces Cavities,
The Optimum Health
Report

Bibliography of scientific literature on fluoride
Second
Look, SL.com
Bibliography complete with links to abstracts