How a Dentist Changed His Mind About Fluoride

How Dr. Osmunson Changed His Mind About Fluoridation
June 6th, 2012
http://fluoride-class-action.com/how-dr-osmunson-changted-his-mind-about-fluoridation

This is a letter to the public from Dr. Osmunson, DDS, on the step-by-step journey he took from promoting fluoride for 25 years to writing a letter to the HHS and CDC about removing fluoride from the drinking water, and declaring it as the drug that it is.  He shows how fluoride is helpful in some cases, and over-dosed in other cases.

"For greater detail read my April 25, 2011, submission to HHS and CDC.  (web link to his submission is here):
http://washingtonsafewater.com/wp-content/uploads/osmunson-comment-to-epa-3-13-11.pdf

Videos on Fluoride Updates

KSDK NEWS Video > Pevely, Missouri cuts fluoride out of water to save money

http://www.ksdk.com/news/article/323502/9/Pevely-cuts-fluoride-out-of-water-to-save-money
Times are tight in Pevely, Missouri. The Jefferson County town needs to save money, so city leaders agreed to stop buying fluoride for the water supply, saving the city $10,000 annually. 

As usual, pro-fluoride has come out to condemn this action--giving the same litany about the poor and the children will now have to pay $65,000 annually now for dental work just because the city will no longer be paying the $10,000 for fluoride. The city needs to be commended for seeking ways to cut its budget, and choosing not to pay any more tax dollars for hydrofluorosilicic acid is the best display of intelligence they could give the city instead of buying into the continued paid-for propaganda! What do you think??



3-part Video below is another good documentary on fluoride: Professional Perspectives on Water Fluoridation http://youtu.be/EBnSufQxys8

EPA finally doing some of the NRC's recommendations

How to fight water fluoridation in your city
Wednesday, June 06, 2012 by: Ethan A. Huff, staff writer
http://www.naturalnews.com/036084_water_fluoridation_protests_activism.html#ixzz1x9NFvatC

Gives examples of success in Fairbanks and Juneau, Alaska.  Plus other valuable success tips from the commenters at the bottom of the article.  The 5th commenter's experience and suggestions for fighting fluoride in both the USA and Canada gives valuable laws in both countries that need to be followed to be successful ("...don't waste time and money with those who do not have the power or authority or desire to listen to the facts..."), and gives her website called "Canadians Opposed to Fluoridation" http://cof-cof.ca/

Article also includes references to EPA website (home: http://water.epa.gov ) that admits health effects by fluoride, indicates that adding fluoride is voluntary, and also gives update on NRC's 2006 recommendations (lowered level ppm), with reference to more being done soon on the NRC's recommendations:
http://water.epa.gov/drink/contaminants/basicinformation/fluoride.cfm#eight

Also, EPA gives chart of water contaminants here, which includes fluoride:
http://water.epa.gov/drink/contaminants/

Great Fluoride Debate - Canadian Paper!

June 5, 2012 >  Letter to the Editor of "Lethbridge Herald" >

Fluoridation was a mistake that needs to be corrected

http://www.lethbridgeherald.com/letters-to-the-editor/fluoridation-was-a-mistake-that-needs-to-be-corrected-6512.html#comments

The writer was adding their 2 cents worth to the debate, questioning the need for the fluoride poison being in their drinking water when it also gets on their garden vegetables.  The writer quoted a study about it causing  hypothyroidism.

Comments below it started out mocking the writer.  I began quoting scientific studies to them, including one that backed up what the writer had mentioned with hypothyroidism, and the attack turned on me, BUT they began to provide studies of their own to back up their statements, so now we're in a real "debate" - Come join the fun! :-)))

TV Debate on Fluoride!! (in Australia)

Student's political debate TV pilot
4th June 2012
http://www.northernstar.com.au/story/2012/06/04/student-launch-political-debate-tv-pilot/
(picture of Alex Lewers, and article has more details)

Fluoride hits TV screens
4th June 2012
http://www.northernstar.com.au/story/2012/06/04/fluoride-hits-tv-screens-lismore-health/

"GRAB your popcorn, public forum lovers - four Northern Rivers mayors will soon be debating the merits of water fluoridation in a public Q&A style television pilot at Southern Cross University.


"Project founder Alex Lewers says the pilot aims to invigorate politics with a depth and substance lacking in the age of soundbites and slogans.

"It's about getting leaders to engage in less shouting and spin, and more actual debate," said the SCU Bachelor of Media Arts honours student.

"He wants to rekindle the media's traditional function as a political watchdog.

"Research shows the media doesn't spend enough time looking at issues."

"As a result, Australians are voting for representatives whose views aren't always clear to voters in their electorates."

"Water fluoridation remains a hot issue in the Northern Rivers despite tenacious campaigner Al Oshlack's recently overturned appeal to stop Rous Water introducing fluoride to local drinking water.

"Only Byron Shire Council remains opposed to fluoridation.

"Each mayor will have three minutes to outline their stance on the contentious issue before questions from the live studio audience."

Q&A DETAILS

The Fourth Estate: A TV pilot debate

Where: SCU Lismore's ONE29 studio.

When: June 25, 5-7pm

Subject: 'Is water fluoridation the best method of preventing oral health problems in the Northern Rivers?'

To book: Contact Alex Lewers at fourth.estate2012@gmail.com, giving your name, position on the issue (for, against, uncommitted), age and local government area (Ballina, Lismore, etc).

New ADA study confirms danger of fluoride

http://www.economicpolicyjournal.com/2012/06/ada-study-confirms-dangers-of.html

Sunday, June 3, 2012

ADA Study Confirms Dangers of Fluoridated Water

A new study published in the Journal of the American Dental Association confirms fluoride as a toxic substance that actually destroys teeth, particularly those of developing young children and babies.

Natural News reports:

When people are exposed to excessive levels of fluoride through sources like drinking water, foods and beverages and even swallowed toothpaste, it often results in a condition known as dental fluorosis. The internal uptake of fluoride into teeth over time causes their enamel to become mottled and discolored, the end result being damaged teeth that have essentially rotted from the inside out.

Dr. Steven Levy, D.D.S., and his team found during their study that "fluoride intakes during each of the first four years (of a child's life) were individually significantly related to fluorosis on maxillary central incisors, with the first year more important." They went on to warn that "infant formulas reconstituted with higher fluoride water can provide 100 to 200 times more fluoride than breast milk, or cow's milk."

Of course, if you would have been reading Murray Rothbard, you would have known about the fluoride scam decades ago. He was warning us all in 1993!

And Rothbard nailed what was behind the push to put fluoride in the water.

There is an instructive lesson in this little saga, a lesson how and why the Welfare State came to America. It came as an alliance of three major forces: ideological social democrats, ambitious technocratic bureaucrats, and Big Businessmen seeking privileges from the State. In the fluoridation saga, we might call the whole process "ALCOA-socialism." The Welfare State redounds to the welfare not of most of society but of these particular venal and exploitative groups.

(htIrisMack)

More Cities Looking @ Fluoridation

FOX-6 News Video:  News conferences held to debate safety of water fluoridation (in Milwaukee)

http://fox6now.com/2012/05/31/news-conferences-held-to-debate-safety-of-water-fluoridation/

May 31, 2012:   Milwaukee Alderman Jim Bohl is adamant that fluoridation in Milwaukee’s drinking water is a bad thing. Bohl held a news conference Thursday at Milwaukee’s City Hall with experts, to champion his point...Those in favor of fluoridation also held a news conference Thursday at City Hall...Bohl introduced his resolution to end fluoridation and create an oral health program for medically-underserved children, with the $540,000 the city would have spent on fluoridation...The debate resumed at the meeting over what’s best for Milwaukee’s water system, and for the 15 other communities that utilize it..."

May 22, 2012:  Video of Sacramento Budget Hearing about Fluoridation by Residents

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=alc1nhuOSqQ

May 30, 2012:  New campaigns to focus on Wichita water fluoridation

http://www.kwch.com/news/kwch-news-rdm-new-campaigns-to-focus-on-wichita-water-fluoridation-20120530,0,867512.story

"Educational campaigns on fluoridiation start this week from the Kansas Health Foundation and the group Wichitans for Healthy Teeth. The health foundation says Wichita is the fourth largest city in the country without fluoridated water...The foundation's campaign will include TV and radio ads, billboards and social media outreach. Coen (CEO of Kansas Health Foundation) says its focus will be for people to understand that fluoride is a safe and natural way to prevent tooth decay..."We have communities in Kansas that actually do have naturally fluoridated water, communities like Dodge City, Scott City and Colby," said Coen. "It is a natural element that occurs in water.'" (Sidebar Note by Ken:  Coen stated that Wichita has fluoride in its water, "naturally," but it's only .33 ppm, and they want to add more fluoride to it....so Wichita has a natural mineral fluorine, but now they want to add a hazardous waste by-product to it and tell the folks it's "a safe and natural way to prevent tooth decay."--does that make any logical sense??)

May 31, 2012:  Fluoridation overdue  (in Wichita Kansas)

http://www.kansas.com/2012/05/31/2354485/fluoridation-overdue.html

"Local voters rejected water fluoridation in 1964 and 1978, and elected officials variously have treated it with disdain or indifference ever since – as if they could ignore it and make it go away.

"This time the advocates themselves are too formidable to ignore: the Kansas Health Foundation, which is launching a website (www.FluorideForUs.com) and ad campaign, and a new group dubbed Wichitans for Healthy Teeth (wichitansforhealthyteeth.org) that has the Wichita District Dental Society, the Medical Society of Sedgwick County and a total of 368 local dentists, physicians and other medical professionals behind it. The latter group is seeking grant money to offset the modest infrastructure costs of water fluoridation for Wichita – and to counter arguments that it would be too costly..."

May 31, 2012:  "The Irish Times - (New) Report prompts councils to call for public review of water fluoridation (in Ireland)

http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/ireland/2012/0531/1224316989605.html

"...360-page report, (locally, a) Bandon-based environmental auditor Declan Waugh found that babies fed with formula mixed with fluoridated water were at particular risk. “No child under the age of three should be exposed to fluoride,” he said. “They don’t even have teeth."  *****SIDEBAR NOTE added by KEN:  "IrishTimes.com," June 2, 2012 - posted "Corrections & Clarifications" as saying that Declan Waugh was "wrongly quoted" when reporting that he'd said, "They don't even have teeth."  I guess that means he never said that part of it, since they don't give any other quote from him to replace it with.  Here's their link to the correction:
http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/opinion/2012/0602/1224317133462.html 

"The Risk Assessment of Water Fluoridation report says fluoride is a known risk factor in a series of health problems particularly prevalent in Ireland, including neurological and cardiovascular disease, type 2 diabetes, osteoporosis and skeletal muscular disorders.

"Ireland is the only EU member state with a legislative policy to add fluoride to the water supply. “The incidence of these diseases in Ireland is far above the global average,” Mr Waugh added.

“Ireland has twice the global average of osteoporosis, one of the highest levels in the world of childhood epilepsy and certain type of cancers associated with the digestive tract, including cancer of the liver, kidney, stomach and intestinal cancer.”

"Bandon and Kinsale town councils have agreed to ask the Minister for Health to review water fluoridation immediately.

"Minister for the Environment Phil Hogan said last November that he “trusted the processes in place.'"

Read more here: http://www.kansas.com/2012/05/31/2354485/fluoridation-overdue.html#storylink=cpy