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Scientific Evidence Shows How and Why
Over 1,700 professionals signed a statement urging Congress to
stop water fluoridation until Congressional hearings are conducted. They cite
new scientific evidence that fluoridation, long promoted to fight tooth decay,
is ineffective and has serious health risks. (http://www.fluorideaction.org/statement.august.2007.html)
Signers include a Nobel
Prize winner, three members of the prestigious 2006 National Research Council
(NRC) panel that reported on fluoride’s toxicology, two officers in the Union
representing professionals at EPA headquarters, the President of the
International Society of Doctors for the Environment, and hundreds of medical,
dental, academic, scientific and environmental professionals,
worldwide.
Signer Dr. Arvid Carlsson, winner of the 2000 Nobel Prize for
Medicine, says, “Fluoridation is against all principles of modern pharmacology.
It's really obsolete.”
An Online Action Petition to Congress in support
of the Professionals' Statement is available on FAN's web site, http://congress.fluorideaction.net and over
11,000 individuals have signed so far.
“The NRC report dramatically
changed scientific understanding of fluoride's health risks," says Paul Connett,
PhD, Executive Director, Fluoride Action Network. "Government officials who
continue to promote fluoridation must testify under oath as to why they are
ignoring the powerful evidence of harm in the NRC report,” he
added.
The Professionals’ Statement also references:
-- The
new American Dental Association policy recommending infant formula NOT be
prepared with fluoridated water.
-- The CDC’s concession that the
predominant benefit of fluoride is topical not systemic.
-- CDC data showing
that dental fluorosis, caused by fluoride over-exposure, now impacts one third
of American children.
-- Major research indicating little difference in decay
rates between fluoridated and non-fluoridated communities.
-- A Harvard study
indicating a possible link between fluoridation and bone cancer.
-- The
silicofluoride chemicals used for fluoridation are contaminated industrial waste
and have never been FDA- approved for human ingestion.
The
Environmental Working Group (EWG), a DC watchdog, revealed that a Harvard
professor concealed the fluoridation/bone cancer connection for three years. EWG
President Ken Cook states, “It is time for the US to recognize that fluoridation
has serious risks that far outweigh any minor benefits, and unlike many other
environmental issues, it's as easy to end as turning off a valve at the water
plant.”
Further, researchers reporting in the Oct 6 2007 British Medical Journal indicate that
fluoridation, touted as a safe cavity preventive, never was proven safe or
effective and may be unethical. (1)
References:
(1) “Adding fluoride to water
supplies,” British Medical Journal,
KK Cheng, Iain Chalmers, Trevor A. Sheldon, October 6,
2007
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