IT’S TIME TO RECONSIDER FLUORIDATION Dr. John Hinchcliff’s paper that was presented to Auckland Council in 2007. Auckland City Councillor, 15th January, 2007. The practice of fluoridating our city water supply deserves to be reconsidered by our City Council whose members are elected to make decisions which benefit our community. This will be a most controversial issue, and…
Read detailsGreater Boston Physicians for Social Responsibility REPORT: In Harm’s Way: Toxic Threats to Child Development Chapter 6: Known and Suspected Developmental Neurotoxicants(full PDF) Fluoride Since the 1950’s, in many communities throughout the US and other areas of the world, fluoride has been added to community drinking water supplies with the intention of reducing tooth decay.…
Read detailsWhy I changed my mind about water fluoridation John Colquhoun* © 1997 University of Chicago Press Former Advocate To explain how I came to change my opinion about water fluoridation, I must go back to when I was an ardent advocate of the procedure. I now realize that I had learned, in my training…
Read detailsWhy Fluoridation Should be Ended in New Zealand A statement by Professor Paul Connett, PhD, February 2014. These are my academic credentials: 1) Cambridge BA (honors) in Natural Sciences 1962. 2) PhD in Chemistry from Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, USA, 1983 These are the details of my professional experience: 1) I taught chemistry at…
Read detailsApril 2012 – Cancer Epidemiology: Fluoride in drinking water and osteosarcoma incidence rates in the continental United States among children and adolescents. Levy Leclerc BS. “Basically, Levy and Leclerc used a very weak methodology, weakened it further by failing to even look at the fluoridation in relationship to their SEER data set, and chose to…
Read detailsApril 2012 – Cancer Epidemiology: Fluoride in drinking water and osteosarcoma incidence rates in the continental United States among children and adolescents. Levy Leclerc BS. “Basically, Levy and Leclerc used a very weak methodology, weakened it further by failing to even look at the fluoridation in relationship to their SEER data set, and chose to omit the…
Read detailsOsteosarcoma and Fluoridation April 2012 – Cancer Epidemiology: Fluoride in drinking water and osteosarcoma incidence rates in the continental United States among children and adolescents. Levy Leclerc BS. “Basically, Levy and Leclerc used a very weak methodology, weakened it further by failing to even look at the fluoridation in relationship to their SEER data set,…
Read detailsTop Canadian Dental Researcher Speaks Out Against Fluoridation Dr. Hardy Limeback BSc, PhD, DDS Professor Emeritus and Former Head of Preventive Dentistry, Faculty of Dentistry, University of Toronto Friday, May 1, 2015 I served 3.5 years on the US National Academies of Sciences Subcommittee on Fluoride in Drinking Water. The NAS is sometimes referred…
Read detailsDo you oppose adding fluoride (hydrofluorosilicic acid) to our water? Are you aware that promoters now say the primary benefit from fluoride is topical rather than systemic (i.e. it needs to be applied to the surface of the tooth rather than swallowed)? Are you aware of other successful public dental health programmes such as CHILDSMILE…
Read detailsWhy I am now officially opposed to adding fluoride to drinking water Dr. Hardy Limeback, BSc, PhD, DDS Associate Professor and Head, Preventive Dentistry University of Toronto Toronto, Ontario, M5G-1G6 Fax (416) 979-4936 Tel(416) 979-4929 E-mail: April, 2000 To whom it may concern: Why I am now officially opposed to adding fluoride to drinking water…
Read detailsI am the Head of Preventive Dentistry at the University of Toronto in Toronto Canada, a professor with a PhD in Biochemistry and a practicing dentist who has done years of funded research in tooth formation, bone and fluoride. I was one of the 12 scientists who served on the National Academy of Sciences panel…
Read detailsAge-specific fluoride exposure in drinking water and osteosarcoma (United States). Bassin EB, Wypij D, Davis RB, Mittleman MA. Cancer Causes Control. 2006 May;17(4):421-8. This study was embroiled in controversy when, in 2004, it was discovered that Chester Douglass (Bassin’s supervisor, affiliated with toothpaste company Colgate) had suppressed these findings for four years. See timeline of…
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