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FAN Bulletin 1092: Professionals expose Victorian government deception
September 18, 2009
Two bits of good news.
First, on September 15 the citizens in Wakefield, Nebraska, voted down fluoridation by a margin of over 10 to 1.
Second, for once an Australian newspaper (Sunraysia Daily) has given the opportunity for a professional response to the wildly inaccurate claims (and outright deception) of Australian health authorities. Dr. James Carnie, the chief health officer for Victoria, and a bunch of yes men Carnie gathered from a few health groups, produced some of their usual spin in an effort to convince the citizens of the small town of Mildura that there is nothing wrong with fluoridation. In the process, they grossly misrepresented the NRC review findings, the ADA advice on not using fluoridated water in bottle feeding and the Chinese IQ studies. Typically they hid behind the review by the Australian NHMRC in 2007 which dismissed the relevance of the landmark review by the US NRC and then produced what was little more than a rehash of the York Review, but without the caveats (see Trevor Sheldon's letter to the House of Lords, www.fluoridealert.org/sheldon.htm ).
Carnie's long letter (Mildura: Experts Back Fluoride) was printed in the local paper (Sunraysia Daily) on September 2- replete with photos.
Citizens won the right to get a professional response to Carnie's spin piece. The paper agreed. That's when FAN got involved, we were able to get twenty professionals to sign onto a letter to the paper. Actually this was more than a sign on: the letter went through several iterations. The signers included five people from Australia, including the former federal health minister (Doug Everingham) and the former president of the South Australia branch of the Australian Dental Association (Andrew Harms) and fifteen doctors, dentists and scientists from the US, Canada, UK and New Zealand, including three NRC panel members ( Bob Isaacson, Hardy Limeback and Kathleen Thiessen), the editor of the journal Fluoride (Albert Burgstahler), the author of the book Fluoride Fatique (Bruce Spittle), the past president of the International Society of Doctors for the Environment (Vyvyan Howard) and former US EPA scientist, William Hirzy.
The letter was printed today (Sept 18, 2009) as a FULL page op-ed piece.
The text of the letter is printed in full below along with the names of all nineteen signatories. Unfortunately, for some unexplained reason, Dr. James Beck's (MD, PhD, Retired medical biophysicist, Canada) name was not on the published article, although he headed the list.
Local citizens will be making photocopies of this full page and will be distributing it throughout Victoria and other hot spots in Australia fighting to help counter the incredible arrogance of health officials who are prepared to force this practice on citizens even though they lack a serious understanding of the literature on fluoride's dangers, and without giving a citizens a chance to vote on the measure!
The last sentence of our letter reads: "We marvel that Dr. Carnie is prepared to force this measure on communities without a vote being taken by the citizens. This would be unacceptable even if the proponents had presented sound scientific evidence for both its effectiveness and safety, but having done neither, their arrogance is breathtaking."
Paul Connett
Citizens Misled on Fluoride
Sunraysia Daily, September 18
http://www.FluorideAlert.Org
FAN Bulletin 1092: Professionals expose Victorian government deception
September 18, 2009
Two bits of good news.
First, on September 15 the citizens in Wakefield, Nebraska, voted down fluoridation by a margin of over 10 to 1.
Second, for once an Australian newspaper (Sunraysia Daily) has given the opportunity for a professional response to the wildly inaccurate claims (and outright deception) of Australian health authorities. Dr. James Carnie, the chief health officer for Victoria, and a bunch of yes men Carnie gathered from a few health groups, produced some of their usual spin in an effort to convince the citizens of the small town of Mildura that there is nothing wrong with fluoridation. In the process, they grossly misrepresented the NRC review findings, the ADA advice on not using fluoridated water in bottle feeding and the Chinese IQ studies. Typically they hid behind the review by the Australian NHMRC in 2007 which dismissed the relevance of the landmark review by the US NRC and then produced what was little more than a rehash of the York Review, but without the caveats (see Trevor Sheldon's letter to the House of Lords, www.fluoridealert.org/sheldon.htm ).
Carnie's long letter (Mildura: Experts Back Fluoride) was printed in the local paper (Sunraysia Daily) on September 2- replete with photos.
Citizens won the right to get a professional response to Carnie's spin piece. The paper agreed. That's when FAN got involved, we were able to get twenty professionals to sign onto a letter to the paper. Actually this was more than a sign on: the letter went through several iterations. The signers included five people from Australia, including the former federal health minister (Doug Everingham) and the former president of the South Australia branch of the Australian Dental Association (Andrew Harms) and fifteen doctors, dentists and scientists from the US, Canada, UK and New Zealand, including three NRC panel members ( Bob Isaacson, Hardy Limeback and Kathleen Thiessen), the editor of the journal Fluoride (Albert Burgstahler), the author of the book Fluoride Fatique (Bruce Spittle), the past president of the International Society of Doctors for the Environment (Vyvyan Howard) and former US EPA scientist, William Hirzy.
The letter was printed today (Sept 18, 2009) as a FULL page op-ed piece.
The text of the letter is printed in full below along with the names of all nineteen signatories. Unfortunately, for some unexplained reason, Dr. James Beck's (MD, PhD, Retired medical biophysicist, Canada) name was not on the published article, although he headed the list.
Local citizens will be making photocopies of this full page and will be distributing it throughout Victoria and other hot spots in Australia fighting to help counter the incredible arrogance of health officials who are prepared to force this practice on citizens even though they lack a serious understanding of the literature on fluoride's dangers, and without giving a citizens a chance to vote on the measure!
The last sentence of our letter reads: "We marvel that Dr. Carnie is prepared to force this measure on communities without a vote being taken by the citizens. This would be unacceptable even if the proponents had presented sound scientific evidence for both its effectiveness and safety, but having done neither, their arrogance is breathtaking."
Paul Connett
Citizens Misled on Fluoride
Sunraysia Daily, September 18
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