Australian letter - Doc now opposed.
Coverage calls for pat on back
CONGRATULATIONS on your balanced reporting policy.
As a family doctor, I published a call for fluoridation of town water supplies for Rockhampton nearly 50 years ago. Since then Ive studied detailed evidence for and against the practice and Ive consistently moved to further oppose the measure.
I joined a growing trend. Commercial and professional interests often swallow expert propaganda, mostly claiming their case is scientific and opponents are not.
Professor Sir Arthur Amies, then head of Melbournes dental faculty, decades ago analysed the grave deficiencies of the case for fluoridation and has never been refuted. The prevalent pro-fluoride promoters deplore it but repeatedly avoid analysing it openly, statistically, and epidemiologically.
DOUG EVERINGHAM,|Middle Park, Qld
CONGRATULATIONS on your balanced reporting policy.
As a family doctor, I published a call for fluoridation of town water supplies for Rockhampton nearly 50 years ago. Since then Ive studied detailed evidence for and against the practice and Ive consistently moved to further oppose the measure.
I joined a growing trend. Commercial and professional interests often swallow expert propaganda, mostly claiming their case is scientific and opponents are not.
Professor Sir Arthur Amies, then head of Melbournes dental faculty, decades ago analysed the grave deficiencies of the case for fluoridation and has never been refuted. The prevalent pro-fluoride promoters deplore it but repeatedly avoid analysing it openly, statistically, and epidemiologically.
DOUG EVERINGHAM,|Middle Park, Qld
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1 Comments:
DR Doug Everingham was the Federal health Minister in Australia under the Whitlam Gov in the mid 1970's...he turned against Fluoridation when after asking his helath Department to provide scientific research which proved the efficacy of Fluoridation he waited and waited...asked and asked...he was never given the data he required...and as I said he was the Federal health inister for the whoe of Australia. Hm!
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Middle Child, at 01 January, 2006
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