Imelda Hitchcock

I have been widowed for twenty one years. Have four sons, three daughter-in-laws and five grandchildren Have led the campaign against fluoridation in Timaru since 1980. Was successful in getting the fluoride out of the water in 1985 and have had to fight hard to keep it out, ever since..Took a lot of flak about…

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Alan Solomon

Alan is an ex-Physical Training Instructor in the Royal New Zealand Air Force and spent 10 years working the health and fitness industry before deciding to retrain as a journalist. He is currently a journalist/presenter at a regional television station, TV Rotorua. He is passionate about getting the truth to the public so they can…

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Jon Burness

Jon has run his natural health practice in Whakatane for the last 12 years, after moving to Whakatane from Australia in 2002. He has been an active researcher and practitioner into natural health for 20 years.   Jon became interested in the fluoride issue in 2005 when he say figures that showed no difference in…

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Pat McNair

Pat first learnt about the risks of water fluoridation as a teenager in Rotorua in the late ‘60s, when her father lent her some books and pamphlets on the subject. This early introduction was never forgotten but it took a move to Hamilton and another 40 years to do something about it. By this time…

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Laura Surrich

Laura runs her own digital marketing company and is a mother to two wonderful girls. She began investigating fluoride when it was brought to her attention by her mother, a science academic at a New Zealand University. After researching, her findings lead her and her family to choose to avoid fluoride in their home and especially…

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Dr Russel McLean

Dr McLean graduated B.D.S 1972 from Otago University. For a decade or so he accepted the dental orthodoxy taught there. Life experience and working overseas called a fair portion of that received wisdom in to question. Dr McLean now rejects water fluoridation as an ineffective, unsafe and unethical practice; a stance shared by the majority of the world’s dentists,…

Dr Lawrie Brett

Dr Brett has been a practising dentist for over 30 years and operates out of a clinic in Kamo, Whangarei. He graduated in 1974 from Otago Dental School having also studied chemistry.   He has a special interest in preventive dentistry and biocompatible materials hence his interest in water fluoridation.  Dr Brett researched this topic for…

Mary Byrne

Mary became involved in the fluoridation issue in 1999 when the Hutt City Council was looking to fluoridate her home town of Petone. She happened to have just read a book called “Your Health at Risk” by New Zealand author, Toni Jefferies, that had a chapter about fluoridation. Mary was horrified to find that there were serious doubts over the safety…