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August 9, 2007,
The day that changed the debate
FLUORIDE
ACTION NETWORK
http://www.FluorideAction.net
FAN Bulletin 860: August 9, the day that
changed the debate
August 9, 2007
Dear All,
It is done. Today, the Fluoride Action
Network publicly released the result of 40
days hard work from a magnificent team from
across North America and around the world.
They helped to persuade over 600
professionals to sign a statement calling
for an end to fluoridation worldwide. Mark
your calendars, August 9, 2007 changed the
fluoridation debate.
It is the top item on our home page:
http://www.FluorideAction.net
There you will find the links to:
Our press release: http://www.fluorideaction.org/statement.press.release.html
Please copy this and send it to your
local media outlets.
The statement with the list of signers:
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in html
format: http://www.fluorideaction.org/statement.press.release.html
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as a pdf
file for printing: http://www.fluoridealert.org/professionals.statement.2007.pdf
The compilation of short statements from
many of the professionals signing the
statement:
http://www.fluorideaction.org/statement.quotes.aug.2007.pdf
In a few days we hope to have an ONLINE
MESSAGE system where citizens can support
the Professionals’ Statement and call for
new Congressional hearings, so that those
who zealously promote fluoridation, testify
UNDER OATH as to why they continue to do so,
oblivious to its dangers and
ineffectiveness. Keep checking the home page
– please be patient with us.
Meanwhile, let’s celebrate this historic
moment in the battle against water
fluoridation
An historic moment in the battle against
water fluoridation
On August 9, 2007, FAN released a statement
signed by over 600 professionals calling for
an end to fluoridation and a call to
legislators in fluoridating countries to
hold hearings to determine why, after the
release of the National Research Council
report in 2006, aggressive promotion to
fluoridate continues.
The signers include:
-- Arvid Carlson, Nobel laureate for
medicine , 2000
-- Doug Everingham, former Federal Health
Minister (1972-75), Australia
-- Two advisory board members of the UK
government sponsored “York Review”
-- Dr. Theo Colborn, co-author, “Our Stolen
Future”
-- Chris Bryson, author, “The Fluoride
Deception”
-- The Board of Directors, the American
Academy of Environmental Medicine
-- Two officers in the union representing
EPA professionals in DC
-- The current President and six Past
Presidents of the International Academy of
Oral Medicine and Toxicology
-- leading officials in Quebec’s Academy of
Biological Dentistry
-- Two Goldman Prize winners
-- Dr. Lynn Margulis, a recipient of the
National Medal of Science
-- Ken Cook and Richard Wiles, President and
Executive Director, Environmental Working
Group (EWG)
-- Dr. Vyvyan Howard, newly elected
President, International Society of Doctors
for the Environment (ISDE)
-- Dr. Peter Montague, Director of
Environmental Health Foundation
-- Dr. Ted Schettler, Science director,
Science and Environmental Health Network
-- Stephen Lester, Science Director, Center
for Health, Environment, and Justice (CHEJ),
-- Pat Costner, retired Senior Scientist,
Greenpeace International
-- Ron Cummins, Director, Organic Consumers
Association
-- Sandra Duffy, Board President, Consumers
for Dental Choice
-- Leo Cashman, Executive Director of DAMS
(Dental Amalgam Mercury Syndrome)
-- Dr. Sam Epstein, author, “Politics of
Cancer” and Chairman, Cancer Prevention
Coalition
-- Jay Feldman, Executive Director,
Beyond Pesticides
-- Prominent members of the Collegios
Medicos, Puerto Rico
-- Gary Liss and other leaders in the Zero
Waste movement
-- Over 100 medical doctors
-- Over 100 dentists
-- Over 100 PhDs
-- Environmental and public health leaders
from over 30 countries, and
-- Legendary folksinger, songwriter and
activist, Pete Seeger
The 600 signers represent a remarkable
coming together of those concerned about
fluoride and those concerned about mercury
issues; doctors practicing conventional
medicine and those pursuing alternative
treatments and the public health and the
environmental health communities, worldwide.
All believe that public health policy should
be determined honestly with full attention
paid to sound science and to ethical
principles.
What we are seeing here is the judgment of
professionals across the world, not trapped
by a ‘fluoridation belief system,’ that the
information on the health effects contained
in the National Research Council report of
2006, together with a growing number of peer
reviewed studies that fluoridation has
insignificant or no benefits, leads to one
only conclusion: the meager benefits do not
outweigh the serious risks and fluoridation
must be stopped.
Now our task is to get health officials,
regulators, and the media to exercise due
diligence in this matter and seriously
examine the information presented in the
Professionals’ Statement. Fluoridation will
only end in the US when officials in the
Oral Health Division of the CDC are forced
to defend UNDER OATH their zealous promotion
of this practice, which continues oblivious
of its ineffectiveness and the dangers to
the American people – and people in the
handful of other fluoridated countries.
August 9, 2007 is a historic day for this
movement because it marks the day when those
who promote fluoridation can no longer claim
that they represent a single “authority” on
this matter. At least 600 professionals have
seen through their hollow rhetoric and
demand an end to this outdated practice.
August 9, 2007 marks the beginning of the
end of fluoridation worldwide.
Fluoridation was never sound ethically, now
it is clear that it is not sound
scientifically. The Professionals’ Statement
is the rock on which we will build the rest
of our campaign.
Paul Connett
PS In the next bulletin I will break down
the signers by occupation and/or
qualification.
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