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It's politics over science
The Times editorial, “Melting down at EPA's top,” points out that EPA's top executives routinely ignore the counsel and science of experts. This has been gong on for many years, especially over the fluoride issue.
In 1990, EPA scientist William Marcus suggested that fluoride may cause cancer in humans. In 1992, he was fired. Two years later, the EPA was forced to reinstate him and give him back pay, legal expenses and punitive damages. Still, fluoridation continues.
In 2000, EPA scientist and union representative Dr. William Herzy, at a U.S. Senate hearing, called for a moratorium on water fluoridation. Both the Senate and EPA administrators ignored his advice, and fluoridation continues.
In 2005, the Coalition of U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Unions, representing eleven EPA employee unions, sited a study from Harvard School of Dental Medicine that showed a link between water fluoridation and bone cancer in young boys. Letters were sent to subcommittees in both branches of Congress and to EPA administrators requesting an end to water fluoridation. Yet fluoridation continues.
When fluoridation was up for a vote in Santa Maria, the entire City Council supported it. Mountains of evidence were presented to the council showing the dangers of fluoridation, but it was ignored. Thousands of dollars were spent to fight the Safe Drinking Water initiative, and now Santa Maria citizens get to drink, bath in, and wash dishes and clothes in fluoridated water.
It's not just EPA administrators - governments on all levels prefer politics to science.
Joe Furcinite
Advertisement Santa Maria
March 14, 2008
The Times editorial, “Melting down at EPA's top,” points out that EPA's top executives routinely ignore the counsel and science of experts. This has been gong on for many years, especially over the fluoride issue.
In 1990, EPA scientist William Marcus suggested that fluoride may cause cancer in humans. In 1992, he was fired. Two years later, the EPA was forced to reinstate him and give him back pay, legal expenses and punitive damages. Still, fluoridation continues.
In 2000, EPA scientist and union representative Dr. William Herzy, at a U.S. Senate hearing, called for a moratorium on water fluoridation. Both the Senate and EPA administrators ignored his advice, and fluoridation continues.
In 2005, the Coalition of U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Unions, representing eleven EPA employee unions, sited a study from Harvard School of Dental Medicine that showed a link between water fluoridation and bone cancer in young boys. Letters were sent to subcommittees in both branches of Congress and to EPA administrators requesting an end to water fluoridation. Yet fluoridation continues.
When fluoridation was up for a vote in Santa Maria, the entire City Council supported it. Mountains of evidence were presented to the council showing the dangers of fluoridation, but it was ignored. Thousands of dollars were spent to fight the Safe Drinking Water initiative, and now Santa Maria citizens get to drink, bath in, and wash dishes and clothes in fluoridated water.
It's not just EPA administrators - governments on all levels prefer politics to science.
Joe Furcinite
Advertisement Santa Maria
March 14, 2008
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