Fluoridation debates:
Fluoridation debate on the Isle of Man, Nov 20, 2007. Dr. Paul Connett,
Executive Director of the Fluoride Action Network, versus Dr. Michael
Lennon, Chairman of the British Fluoridation Society (60 minutes);
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=82194292805035136&hl=en
Dr. Peter Cooney, Chief Dental Officer for Canada, presents the case
for fluoridation in Dryden, Ontario, April 1, 2008 (30 minutes);
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=4888471756915953833&hl=en
Dr. Paul Connett, Responds to Dr. Peter Cooney in Dryden, Ontario,
April 2, 2008 (30 minutes);
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8298672336694063917&hl=en
Dr. Paul Connett, presents an Overview of the Arguments Against
Fluoridation, Dryden, Ontario, April 2, 2008 (30 minutes);
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6009890695063189914&hl=en
Dr. Paul Connett, presents More Details on the Arguments Against
Fluoridation, Dryden, Ontario, April 2, 2008 (30 minutes);
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-7121092110134855371&hl=en
Professional Perspective Series:
1. Dr. Bill Osmunson: Fluoride in Water;
<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Ys9q1cvKGk>
(January 2008).
2. Dr. Kathleen Thiessen, Dr. Phyllis Mullenix and Dr. Paul Connett:
Fluoride Risk to Kidney Patients;
<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hbON7xpyg34>
(May 2008).
3. Brent Foster, Conservation chair, Oregon Sierra Club: An
Environmental Professional Speaks Out on Fluoridation;
<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AvExFr5J9BI>
(June 2008).
4. Dr. Vyvyan Howard, an infant and fetal pathologist and President of
the International Society of Doctors for the Environment, talks about
his concerns about the early exposure of the infant brain to fluoride;
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=JqMmoQgnXnA
(July 2008)
Other Professionals speak out on fluoridation:
Dr. Hardy Limeback, former President of the Canadian Association for
Dental Research and panel member for the National Research Council
report of 2006 was interviewed by Paul Connett in a 28 minute
videotape. Leading Dental Researcher Speaks Out Against
Fluoridation;
<http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-3153312008186362773>
May 2000 (28 minutes).
Dr. J. William Hirzy, gave testimony before a US Senate
Committee;
<http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=8903910725020792574>
on June 28, 2000 (10 minutes).
Dr. Bob Carton, former risk assessment analyst for the US EPA,
appeared in an ABC-TV evening news clip from the Washington, DC, area announcing the launch of Professionals' Statement calling for an end to fluoridation worldwide;
<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yblka13FfCA&feature=related>,
on August 9, 2007 (4 minutes).
Dr. Andrew Harms, former President of the South Australian Dental Association and Dr. Paul Connett appear on a Channel 7 TV news clip from Australia;
<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rRVYXLBqHV4>, March 25, 2008 (7 minutes).
Dr. Hensley, a doctor and state legislator, is featured in a TV news
program from Tennessee;
<http://youtube.com/watch?v=rNtTctC_7qc&feature=related>.
This clip also features Dan Stockin, MPH from the Lillie Center, December 2006, (3 minutes).
Dr. Michael Flemming, a dental consultant for the FDA appears in a TV news clip from North Carolina;
<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qe2NFPKSzeo&watch_response>,
November 9 2007 (4 minutes).
Philip Robertson, ND, a specialist in super-sensitivity to fluoride and Dr. Mark Diesendorf, author of the groundbreaking 1986 article in Nature, "The Mystery of Declining Tooth Decay" appear in an Australian TV news clip;
<http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=5329003820626343107>
From August 1, 2005 (8 minutes).
Dr. Mike Olmfield, a dentist from Christchurch, New Zealand, explains
why he is opposed to fluoridation in a evening news program (Campbell Live) aired during the referendum held in Ashburton NZ
<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZgzsvyujSgA>, March 2007 (7 mins).
Dr. Phyllis Mullenix, Dr. Peter Mansfield and Dr. Paul Connett are featured in a UK (channel 4) TV program, Don't Swallow Your Toothpaste;
<http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=5118194644870429589>, June 19, 1997, (24 minutes).
Dr. Paul Connett appeared in a three-way debate/discussion with Dr.
Ewan Swann, a spokesperson from the Canadian Dental Association and Dr.David Locker, Professor of Dentistry, University of Toronto, on the program Medical Hot Seat on the Discovery Health Channel from Canada;
<http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=8651924132181016035>,
June 2004 (22 minutes).
Dr. Bruce Spittle appeared in a three-on-three debate broadcast on
Channel 9 in Dunedin;
<http://www.ch9.co.nz/content/star%2526%2523039%3Bs-%2526quot%3Bf-word%2526quot%3B-debate>, New Zealand (June 26, 2008).
It is my hope that as more and more people access these video clips
and programs that we will see an increase in the number of
professionals signing the Professionals' Statement
<http://www.FluorideAlert.org/professionals.statement.html>
calling for an end to fluoridation worldwide, and also an increase in the number of others signing the ONLINE message to Congress
<http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/2477/t/2782/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=21960>
supporting their statement and calling for Congressional Hearings.
Paul Connett
WATER CRIMES by Trillion feat. Tono
Fluoride - Leon - (An Excellent Cartoon about Fluoride)
Toronto Press Conference.mov - 46 min - Sep 3, 2008
Susheela interview (August 12, 2008) - 18 min - Sep 2, 2008
The Hidden Agenda: The Fluoride Deception - 68 min - Aug 16, 2006
Fluoride Warning Issued for Infants
Southampton fluoridation consultation document - 28 min - 17 Oct 2008 - EXCELLENT
Letter's to Press and Various other important peices of information
This new section will detail many letters that have been sent to the press nationally, and to government departments, MPs, and other important public figures re Fluoridation.
Coming Soon.
Hampshire Against Fluoridation Newsletter
March 2009
This is the first newsletter since the Strategic Health Authority ignored all our protests and decided to impose fluoridation on Southampton, Totton and Eastleigh. The twelve people who made up the SHA Board were seemingly kept from seeing all of the evidence presented to them. Their ignorance was demonstrated by one member asking if fluorosis was permanent, after 3 months consultation she did not know that!
Public Meeting
Hampshire Against Fluoridation have organised an open public meeting where there will be an opportunity to sign the petition, find out more about what we are doing since the decision and how you can help. This will take place on Saturday 4th April at:
Central Baptist Church
Devonshire Road
Southampton
Come along at any time between 12 – 6pm.
Legal Fighting Fund
We have launched a Fighting Fund and are seeking donations to help fight the SHA decision. We are currently taking legal advice to challenge this decision. All contributions gratefully accepted!
Donations to the fighting fund: Hampshire Against Fluoridation
Ann Richards
4 South Road, Hayling Island, Hampshire PO11 9AE
Tel: 023 9246 3761
MPs act on fluoridation
Hampshire Against Fluoridation and the MP for New Forest East Dr Julian Lewis have started the process of appealing to the NHS Ombudsman. We have also officially complained about one City councillor an employee of the City Primary Care Trust for not withdrawing at the critical City Council meeting where Councillors passed a vote for fluoridation. Every other Council, Totton, New Forest District, Eastleigh, Test Valley. Hampshire County, all opposed fluoridation.
Hampshire MP Chris Huhne is calling for the Environment Agency to study the potential effect of fluoridating Southampton's tap water. He hopes the authority will look at the risks involved in the scheme to rivers and water courses.
On Wednesday, 18 March, Stephen Peckham met Lord Edward Baldwin and attended the All Party Parliamentary Group Against Fluoridation meeting. Julian Lewis (MP for new Forest) and Sandra Gidley (MP for Romsey and Bassett) were there too along with Chris Huhne's (MP for Eastleigh) researcher. Stephen gave a brief summary of what had happened in Southampton and then what we are currently doing about the petition, complaints etc. There was a lively discussion - there were three other MPs and three Lords present. Clearly Julian Lewis and Sandra Gidley are very angry and want to take as much action as possible. Current suggestions for Parliamentary action are an Early Day Motion in the next few weeks and possibly an adjournment debate when there is a health topic. They will also table questions. There was also discussion about tabling an amendment to the Health Bill passing through Parliament at the moment.
Note: it was an early day motion that began the latest legislation for fluoridation in 2003
Downing Street Petition
We are distributing petition forms to demonstrate that there is an overwhelming rejection of fluoridation in Southampton. We aim to get at least 10,000 signatures and take our petition to Gordon Brown who said on a recent visit to Southampton " It was vital local people made the choice themselves".
The forms are attached and if you too can pass them on to sympathetic sources it will help to raise at least 10,000 signatures. Please print the petition and collect signatures and either return them to us or contact us and we will collect them. We have been collecting signatures in the city centre and have also put forms in shops around the city (see list below). Various students from colleges and university have also taken copies to get signed. In the main I would say 95% of people asked signed. The petition launch was filmed by Meridian TV.
Locations where people can sign petitions:
Tesco, Trebourba Way (ask at customer service desk)
Highfield News, Highfield Lane.
October Books, Portswood.
Naturally Yours, Bedford Place.
Yoma Cafe, Bedford Place.
The Art House, 178 Above Bar (from beginning of April)
Chris Stewart Chiropodist, 10 Portsmouth Rd, Woolston.
Newsagents in St. James Road, Shirley.
Holland and Barrett, Shirley High Street.
Afro-Caribean shop in Shirley High Street.
GNC, East Street, Southampton
Peter Rhodes Books & Cafe, Portswood Road
The petition form is also on the web:
http://www.scribd.com/doc/13419364/Petition-Form-Red-Heading
To print click on "more" and the menu drops down to the print menu or you can download as a document file.
Other things you can do.
Write to your MP to complain about the consultation and the way the SHA ignored the evidence and wishes of the local people. You can write to them at the:
House of Commons, London SW1A 0AA
Sandra Gidley MP (Romsey/Chilworth)
Alan Whitehead MP (Southampton Test)
John Denham MP (Southampton Itchen)
Chris Huhne MP (Eastleigh)
Julian Lewis MP (New Forest)
Write to your local councillor. Lists of councillors are available on the Council websites:
Southampton City (http://www.southampton.gov.uk/thecouncil/thecouncil/organisation/city-councillors/list.asp#0)
Eastleigh (http://www.eastleigh.gov.uk/meetings/mgMemberIndex.asp?fn=ward)
New Forest (http://www.newforest.gov.uk/index.cfm?articleid=606&articleaction=wardlist&CFID=19087375&CFTOKEN=46479337)
Test Valley (http://www.testvalley.gov.uk/Default.aspx?page=194&vs=bGV2ZWwxPUVB&qslbid=lbBoroughCouncillor&qslbcn=level2&qslbca=EA%3bBOROUGH+COUNCILLOR)
Hampshire County Council (http://www3.hants.gov.uk/yourcountycouncillors/findyourcouncillor/findyourcouncillorbydivision.htm)
Other Places to write and complain to:
Southern Water
Southern House, Yeoman Road, Worthing BN13 3NX
www.southernwater.co.uk
The UKCAF web page http://alturl.com/w76 has suggestions that you can follow in the way of writing letters to the Water Company and advice on how to go about legally in claiming money back to cover cost of bottled water or equipment to filter it out.
Parliamentary & Health Service Ombudsman
Millbank Tower
Millbank
London SW1P 4QP
www.ombudsman.org.uk
Water Fluoridation - A cautionary tale of how to ignore the evidence - 1:02:28 - Mar 1, 2009
Fluoride in Water: Study Says Don't!
Fluoridation Opposition: growing in numbers, respectability & science
2008-10-20
http://www.pr-inside.com/fluoridation-opposition-growing-in-r870374.htm
Over 1300 additional professionals signed onto the Fluoride Action Networks (FAN) statement calling for an end to fluoridation as more evidence emerges to condemn fluoridation.
Now over 1,860 professionals urge Congress to stop water fluoridation and hold Congressional hearings, citing scientific evidence that fluoridation, long promoted to fight tooth decay, is ineffective and has serious health risks. See statement:
http://www.fluoridealert.org/statement.august.2007.html
Since the first FAN August 2007 statement, the following has occurred:
-- The Canadian Association of Physicians for the Environment,
-- The National Kidney Foundation dropped its fluoridation support replacing it with this caution: 'Individuals with CKD [Chronic Kidney Disease] should be notified of the potential risk of fluoride exposure.' (1)
-- Researchers reporting in the
-- A qualitative review of studies found a consistent and strong association between the exposure to fluoride and low IQ, conclude Tang el al., in "Fluoride and Children's Intelligence: A Meta-analysis' in Biological Trace Element Research (e-published 8/10/08)
-- Scientific American editors wrote in January 2008, "Some recent studies suggest that over-consumption of fluoride can raise the risks of disorders affecting teeth, bones, the brain and the thyroid gland"
-- Dr. A. K. Susheela, a leading fluoride expert, explains in a video why US physicians overlook fluoride as a possible cause of diseases commonly caused by fluoride:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=4519697926101725336&hl=en
-- An expert panel Health Canada commissioned to study the risks of fluoride exposure says the government should cut the recommended amount in drinking water, encourage the use of low-fluoride toothpaste by children and have makers of infant formula reduce levels in their products. The panel recommended reduced fluoride exposure because it was worried children might be getting too much of the chemical.
Signers to the FAN statement include:
-- Dr. Arvid Carlsson,winner of the 2000 Nobel Prize for Medicine
-- Vyvyan Howard, MD, PhD, President, International Society of Doctors for the Environment
-- Ken Cook and Richard Wiles, Environmental Working Group
-- Lois Gibbs, Center for Health, Environment, and Justice
-- Joseph Mercola, Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine, who runs the #1 most visited natural health website
-- Theo Colborn, PhD, co-author, 'Our Stolen Future'
-- Sam Epstein, MD, Chairman, Cancer Prevention Coalition
-- The current and six past Presidents of the International Academy of Oral Medicine and Toxicology
-- Board of Directors (2007), American Academy of Environmental Medicine
-- FIVE Goldman Prize winners - given for excellence in protecting the environment
-- Three members of the prestigious 2006 National Research Council (NRC) panel that reported on fluoride's toxicology
-- Three officers in the Union representing professionals at EPA headquarters
-- Hundreds of medical, dental, academic, scientific and environmental professionals, worldwide.
Nobel Prize winner, Dr. Arvid Carlsson 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, congress.fluorideaction.net and over 15,000 individuals have signed so far.
'The NRC fluoride report dramatically changed scientific understanding of fluoride's health risks," says Paul Connett, PhD, FAN's Executive Director. "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 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
References:
(1) National Kidney Foundation, 'Fluoride Intake in Chronic Kidney Disease,' April 15, 2008
http://www.kidney.org/atoz/pdf/Fluoride_Intake_in_CKD.pdf
(2) "Adding fluoride to water supplies," British Medical Journal, KK Cheng, Iain Chalmers, Trevor A. Sheldon, October 6, 2007
SOURCE: Fluoride Action Network http://www.fluoridealert.org/
Contact/Press Information:
New York State Coalition Opposed to Fluoridation, Inc
PO Bo 263
Old Bethpage, NY 11804
Contact Person:
nyscof
Media Rep
Phone: 516-433-8882
email: email
Web: http://www.orgsites.com/ny/nyscof/
Fluoride & Bone Cancer: Is Harvard Professor Hiding a Link?
John Spottiswood, Chairman of Hampshire Against Fluoridation - 10 min - Sep 23, 2008
FLUORIDE--YESTERDAYS MEDICINE
The Senior Vice President of the EPA Headquarters Union Speaks Out!
An Environmental Professional Speaks Out on Fluoridation
Don't Swallow Your Toothpaste - 24 min - Mar 6, 2007
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Great links and mass of info sources.
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