Canada - Letter

As a neurological learning specialist (retired), I have been acutely aware for many years that the fluoridation of drinking water supplies interferes with our children’s learning capacity. Modern scientific studies have now corroborated this clinical finding.

Scientifically well-documented studies presented by numerous credible scientists all over the world, as reported by Paul Connett, PhD, and our very own Alberta expert in Calgary, James Beck, MD, PhD, in The Case Against Fluoride: How Hazardous Waste Ended Up in Our Drinking Water and the Bad Science and Powerful Politics That Keep it There.

Thankfully, the City of Calgary has now removed fluoride from their drinking water supplies because it has been documented to damage infants severely, and also to provide measurable damage to the brains and other organs of children and adults.

Given this modern knowledge of the health hazards caused by fluoridation, I read with alarm the data presented by the Alberta Dental Association and College, in the Sherwood Park-Strathcona County News, April 21, 2015, page 27 (“Use fluoride to prevent cavities”).

I don’t know whether the Alberta Dental Association put this article in as a paid advertisement or whether it is a “community service” article. (It was a community service article — Editor)

Their article shows their reliance on old data that has been repeated for decades, to the detriment of the health of our children. They appear not to know that modern studies demonstrate that tooth cavities have declined in countries that have not fluoridated their drinking water supplies.

Attributing tooth decay decline to added fluoridation is just another example of false correlation studies.

J Collins Meek

Sherwood Park