USA: Letter: Face ugly facts about fluoride

Because it causes cancer and Alzheimer's among other things, some time ago I protested the California law which requires rat poison (sodium fluoride) in our drinking water. John M. Freter said I had knots in my knickers and pooh-poohed the whole thing.He may be interested to know that over 7,000 EPA employees in a letter to Congress, asked the government to put an end to adding fluoride to drinking water. They also want the “who's who” among the EPA to officially recognize that fluoride can cause cancer - and to set the drinking water standard for fluoride at zero.Also, recently, a professor from the Harvard School of Dental Medicine was accused of suppressing a report from his own department that linked fluoridation to elevated risk of a fatal bone cancer in young boys. The bone cancer is called osteosarcoma. It is vicious and leads to at least a leg amputation and even death.And that is not all. Fluoridation not only causes cancer but, according to reliable sources, also Alzheimer's, immune system alteration, muskolo-skeletal harm, genetic damage and thyroid dysfunction.The unconscionable law mandating rat poison in our drinking water was the brain child of Senator Jackie Speier. Maybe now she will see the light and act to repeal it. Ironically, Speier has a young son who, if she if following her own advice and feeding him fluoride, is in serious risk of osteosarcoma. What goes 'round, comes 'round.V. Fred Rayser
Yucca Valley