Did you notice the video of the two USA doctors' press conference on the Corona virus posted on Monday has been taken down and banned by Youtube?

Fluoride Free Australia

Time to stop Forced Water Fluoridation.
NEW FLUORIDE STUDY, HOW EVERY HUMAN CELL CAN BE HARMED?
https://www.miragenews.com/molecular-basis-of-clc-transpor…/
"The binding of protons and their transport through the cell membrane are crucial steps for many cellular processes. CLC chloride/proton transporters are present in almost every living cell and regulate the pH value, chloride concentrations and membrane potentials of intracellular cell compartments. Various human diseases, which are caused by dysfunctional CLC transporters and which range from osteopetrosis and kidney dysfunction to epilepsy and mental retardation, illustrate the high physiological and pharmacological impact of this class of membrane proteins.
CLC transporters transport a large number of anions, but are inhibited by fluoride, the smallest anion in the periodic table. Scientists from the Institute of Neurosciences and Medicine (Computational Biomedicine) and the Institute of Biological Information Processing (Molecular and Cellular Physiology) at Forschungszentrum Jülich have used massively parallel hybrid quantum mechanical/classical mechanical simulations to investigate how these chloride transporters differentiate between the anions and what happens when fluoride binds to the protein. In a process that can be described only at the quantum mechanical level, fluoride simultaneously binds protons and an amino acid side chain, which usually shuttles protons across the membrane. This locks the CLC transporter in a fixed position and inhibits the transport process."
The study. https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/jacs.9b13588…
Learn more. https://fluoridefreeaustralia.org/

Strange times we live in

Celebrity chef fined for peddling coronavirus 'light machine'

The WHO has warned against referring to the coronavirus by a specific location over concerns such terms could lead to a rise in discrimination.
Australian celebrity chef Pete Evans has been fined thousands of dollars after promoting a "light machine" which he claimed could help treat coronavirus.

Evans was handed the Aus$25,000 (US$16,000) fine on Friday over his claims the BioCharger device - which looks like a cross between a blender and a lava lamp - could be used to help beat the "Wuhan coronavirus".

"Just briefly it's programmed with about a thousand different recipes, there's a couple on there for Wuhan coronavirus," Evans said in a Facebook live video published earlier this month.

The World Health Organizaion has warned against referring to the novel coronavirus by a specific geographical location over concerns such terms could lead to a rise in discrimination.,,,,,,,,,,,,,

Yet we can say it the WW1 outbreak was Spanish Flu.

You might like to tell her why you don't agree with her

Something in the water: is fluoride actually good for cities?

As a public health researcher who examines sensitive subjects such as sexual health and teenage pregnancy, Stephen Peckham is used to robust debate.

But when his research questioned whether cities should be adding fluoride to their drinking water, Peckham, director of the Centre for Health Service Studies at the University of Kent and a professor at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and the University of Toronto, wasn’t ready for the poisonous attacks that followed.

“Nothing prepared me for the ferocity around fluoridation,” says Peckham. Over a 25-year academic career he has written or co-authored more than 150 papers, chapters and books. His work is cited in another 1,300 papers. Yet his research on water fluoridation will not, he has been told, be published in the main dental health journals.

When Scientific World published his paper on ingested fluoride in 2014, the journal was dismissed as “shonky” and a “bottom-feeder”. When the more reputable peer-reviewed Journal of Epidemiological and Community Health published Peckham’s research on fluoride and hypothyroidism last year, one dental school professor said that it “beggars belief that they should be able to say that in a reputable publication”, while a professor of medicine said it was “irresponsible for the paper’s peer reviewers to not have asked the authors to tone down their conclusions”. Science blogs accused him of “statistics-hacking” and cited him as an example of “how to lie with statistics”.

“It’s very difficult,” Peckham says. “I’ve been hugely and personally attacked by scientific bloggers in different countries. But that’s the difficulty of trying to work in this area, so I just keep my head down.”......



...........A fluoride-free future?

As a young dentist, Lorna MacPherson had to extract the teeth of young children under general anaesthetic. “It was always difficult to see the pain they were experiencing,” she recalls.” She sees a different picture now when she visits nurseries in Glasgow to measure the oral health of three-year-olds. “Ten years ago the nursery teachers would show us children with black or no front teeth. Now we see rows of lovely white teeth. It makes our work so rewarding.” A decade ago, Scotland’s chief dental officer asked MacPherson, a professor of public dental health at the University of Glasgow, to pilot an alternative to water fluoridation. And since 2010, her Childsmile initiative has been rolled out across the country, giving young children free toothbrushes, toothpaste and two fluoride varnish applications per year. Children attending nursery, and those in primary schools in deprived areas, are offered daily supervised brushing. In addition to free dental treatments, the scheme gives parents and adult carers dietary advice to help them prevent tooth decay......................

Video Trial on Fluoridation Chemicals Set for June 8 in Federal Court

NEW YORK, April 20, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- Twice-delayed, a lawsuit seeking to prohibit the addition of fluoridation chemicals to public water systems in the U.S. because of the threat fluoride poses to the developing brain will begin June 8, reports the Fluoride Action Network (FAN). 

Under the jurisdiction of the U.S. District Court in San Francisco, the eight-day trial will be conducted by video conference, rather than in the courtroom, as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.

FAN is the lead plaintiff in the groundbreaking case, which challenges a practice endorsed by the U.S. Public Health Service 70 years ago and that today affects more than 200 million Americans through water systems in thousands of communities.

In accordance with U.S. law, the trial will be accessible to the public, although details remain to be worked out. Whatever the precise format, fluoridation, aggressively promoted by the American Dental Association and the government as a tooth decay preventative, will get a close look over eight days.

As plaintiff, FAN is joined by Moms Against Fluoridation and the consumer advocacy group Food and Water Watch. The groups are joined by several individuals representing themselves and/or their children.

Plaintiffs are represented by Michael Connett and C. Andrew Waters of Waters Kraus and Paul of El Segundo, California. The defendant is the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), represented by the Environmental Defense Section of the U.S. Department of Justice.

"This case is groundbreaking for the opposition to fluoridation," said Paul Connett, FAN Executive Director. "Several well-conducted and government funded Mother-Offspring studies indicate that fluoride has the potential to lower the children's IQ. These studies have changed the ball-game on the argument over fluoride's neurotoxicity."

EPA plans to call on hired experts from the consulting firm Exponent Inc., known for servicing large corporations.

The lawsuit falls under the Toxic Substances Control Act of 1976 (TSCA) which gives  EPA the authority to prohibit "the particular use" of a chemical substance if it presents an unreasonable risk to the general public or susceptible subpopulations.

The plaintiffs submitted a Citizens Petition under Section 21 of TSCA to the EPA in November 2016 requesting a ban on the addition of fluoridation chemicals to water. When the EPA denied their Petition, they filed suit in federal court.

A Fact Sheet providing further information on the case is at http://fluoridealert.org/tsca-fact-sheet/ 

 View original content:http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/video-trial-on-fluoridation-chemicals-set-for-june-8-in-federal-court-301043733.html

SOURCE Fluoride Action Network

Increasing fluoride content deteriorates rat bone mechanical properties

Abstract

Elevation of bone fluoride levels due to drinking beverages with high fluoride content or other means such as inhalation can result in skeletal fluorosis and lead to increased joint pain, skeletal deformities, and fracture. Because skeletal fluorosis alters bone's mineral composition, it is likely to affect bone's tissue-level mechanical properties with consequent effects on whole bone mechanical behavior. To investigate this, we determined whether incubation with in vitro sodium fluoride (NaF) altered bone's mechanical behavior at both the tissue- and whole bone-levels using cyclic reference point indentation (cRPI) and traditional 3-point bending, respectively. Forty-two ulnas from female adult rats (5–6 months) were randomly divided into 5 groups (vehicle, 0.05 M NaF, 0.25 M NaF, 0.75 M NaF, and 1.5 M NaF). Bones were washed in a detergent solution to remove organic barriers to ion exchange and incubated in respective treatment solutions (12 h, 23 °C). Cortical tissue mineral density (TMD) and geometry at the mid-diaphysis were determined by microCT. cRPI was performed on the distal diaphysis (9 N, 2 Hz, 10 cycles), and then bones were tested in 3-point bending to assess whole bone mechanical properties. The incubations in vehicle (0 M) up to 1.5 M in vitro NaF concentrations achieved bone fluoride levels ranging from approximately 0.70 to 15.8 ppm. NaF-incubated bones had significantly greater indentation distances, higher displacement-to-maximum force, and lower estimated elastic modulus, ultimate stress, and bending rigidity with increasing NaF concentration compared to vehicle-incubated bones. cRPI variables were moderately correlated to whole bone mechanical properties such that higher indentation distances were associated with lower estimated elastic modulus, ultimate stress, and bending rigidity. In conclusion, in vitro NaF incubation mostly has a deleterious effect on bone mechanical behavior with increasing NaF levels that is independent of bone turnover and reflected, in part, by less resistance of the tissue to cRPI-based indentation.

Water fluoridation is the optimum intervention

NHS England is signalling strongly that community water fluoridation is the optimum intervention to improve the oral health of children and tackle health inequality among disadvantaged communities.

The new impetus is fully supported by the Community Water Fluoridation (CWF) network, which is pressing for targeted water fluoridation in areas of high need. Dr Simon Hearnshaw, speaking for the CWF network, says that the latest unprecedented support from government inspires optimism that the first new scheme in a generation could get the go-ahead

Health minister Jo Churchill referenced water fluoridation in the House of Commons, responding to a written question about plans for improving children's oral health. Meanwhile, Sir Paul Beresford, Conservative MP for the Mole Valley, and a dentist, gave a powerful speech in favour of community water fluoridation in Westminster.

New content1 has been added to the NHS England website and a whole page2 is dedicated to Dental Care and Fluoridation. According to NHS England, if 5-year-olds with the most tooth decay drank fluoridated water they would have 28% less tooth decay and be 45-68% less likely to need teeth removed in hospital.

Dr Hearnshaw, Chair of the Local Professional Network (LPN) in Hull which instigated the CWF Network, said: 'NHS England is making the same case that is being made by us and by Public Health England.3 The whole philosophical thrust is towards the prevention of disease and in relation to dental decay, the most effective and cost-effective measure is water fluoridation.'

He welcomed the recognition on the new NHS England web page that support for CWF schemes at a local level by NHS representatives is important. Dr Hearnshaw believes this is a reference to the co-commissioning of feasibility studies by local authorities working with the NHS to provide a strong strategic and collaborative lead.

The CWF network would like NHS England to go one step further- it would like the recurring costs of water fluoridation to be funded by the NHS because it would benefit from the associated reduction in child hospital admissions for tooth extractions, estimated to be as much as £50 million annually in the UK.

Dr Hearnshaw continued: 'We have some way to go. Last month the USA celebrated 75 years of CWF. They have around 70% coverage, compared to only around 10% in the UK. All around the world new water fluoridation schemes are being adopted. We have not seen a new scheme in the UK since 1985.'

Thankfully we haven't and we don't want one!

In the middle of a pandemic nothing is more important than fluoridation for these zealots.

Fluorosis victim-turned-crusader from Nalgonda no more

Nalgonda: Fluorosis victim and Fluorosis Vimukthi Porata Samithi member Veeramalla Rajitha (30) died of ill health at Kudabakshupally, her native place, in Marriguda mandal in the district on Thursday morning. She was suffering from health issues related to fluorosis.

Rajitha actively participated in the agitations for safe drinking water to fluoride-affected areas in the past 17 years. She also submitted a memorandum to then Union health minister Jagat Prakash Nadda during his visit to Marriguda in 2016 requesting for the setting up of 300-bed hospital exclusively for fluorosis victims. She utilised every opportunity to highlight the plight of fluorosis victims when political leaders and government officials visited her village.

Moved by the plight of Rajitha, Telugu TV anchor Udaya Bhanu, who went to Kudabakshupally to record a special bulletin ‘Niggadeesi Adugu’, offered Rs 1.4 lakh to set up a small shop to provide livelihood for the fluorosis victim. On learning about Rajitha’s death, Udaya Bhanu called up her family members and consoled them.

Her final rites were performed at the village with limited attendees due to the lockdown.

Speaking to Telangana Today, Fluorosis Vimukthi Porata Samithi president K Subash said Rajitha had always expressed her wish to see the completion of Shivannagudem reservoir before her death. Unfortunately, she died before her wish became a reality. “She was very happy when the fluoride-affected village started getting safe drinking water through Mission Bhagiratha,” he said, and exuded confidence that works on Shivannagudem reservoir would be completed by the State government at the earliest as desired not only by Rajitha, but all fluorosis victims.

New Qld mayors pressed on fluoridated water

Queensland doctors have seized on recent local government elections in the state to urge all new mayors to make fluoridated drinking water available to their local communities.

Dr Dilip Dhupelia

Australian Medical Association (AMA) Queensland President Dr Dilip Dhupelia says 19 local government areas don’t provide fluoridation, despite overwhelming evidence it is a safe and effective way to prevent tooth decay.

Almost one three Queenslanders currently don’t have access to fluoridated water, he says.

“There is no coincidence that the 19 councils in Queensland that do not have fluoridated water have corresponding high rates of dental decay,” Dr Dhupelia said.

“It’s disappointing that these councils have failed to provide this public health measure to their ratepayers, despite its proven benefits.”

He says mayors elected to councils without fluoridated water must ensure it is delivered to their local communities.

“AMA Queensland is calling on the Mayors of these 19 Councils to commit to the reintroduction of fluoride so their communities can reap the health benefits of drinking fluoridated water throughout their life,” Dr Dhupelia said....

Florida USA

In the 1940's, America was sold fluoridation with the false equivalency that pollutants (hydrofluorosilicic acid or sodium fluoride), when added to public water supplies, acts similarly as naturally fluoridated water to safely reduce tooth decay - but without such evidence, reports Frank Zelko, PhD, Associate Professor, Environmental History, University of Hawaii, in History of Science (December 2019). This article garnered the Alice Hamilton Prize for best article by the American Society for Environmental History, reports the New York State Coalition Opposed to Fluoridation (NYSCOF)

Fluoridation "owes more to politics and historical contingency than to the triumph of rational science and enlightened policy," Zelko writes.

Fluoridation chemicals are the fertilizer industry's contaminated waste. Zelko explains the process. To make fertilizer, crushed phosphate rock is boiled with sulfuric acid releasing highly toxic hydrogen fluoride and silicon tetrafluoride gases into the atmosphere which damaged nearby crops and killed farm animals. So, pollution scrubbers were installed to convert toxic vapors to fluorosilicic acid (FSA), a dangerous but more containable liquid waste.

FSA interacts negatively with metals, producing a flammable hydrogen gas. It eats through glass and concrete. Special polyethylene or rubber-lined tanks transport FSA as hazardous chemicals to be drip fed into public water supplies.

"This is a practice that the American Dental Association and numerous scientists and public health officials describe as 'the precise adjustment of the existing naturally occurring fluoride levels in drinking water to an optimal fluoride level…for the prevention of dental decay,'" writes Zelko.

In 1947, well-meaning but misguided dentists so strongly believed that natural and artificial fluoride were chemically the same (even while purchasing an aluminum company's waste sodium fluoride) that they successfully convinced 50 communities to artificially fluoridate – without any safety or efficacy studies conducted or concluded.

The US Public Health Service caved to pressure and endorsed fluoridation in 1950 - followed by the American Dental Association, the American Medical Association and a host of other high-profile government and professional bodies, reports Zelko

"The same toxicologists who signed off on water fluoridation used identical logic in defending the addition of lead to gasoline. Zelko said it was part of the pre-environmental scientific hubris expressed in the slogan 'better living through chemistry," reports University of Hawaii News.

A review of water fluoridation implementation strategy in England 2002–2005

Abstract

Before 2002, there had been a long-term stalemate between private water companies and District Health Authorities across England. Between 2002 and 2005 the team in the Office of the Chief Dental Officer used leadership and advocacy skills to overcome political barriers, introducing the Water Act 2003 and a Statutory Instrument in 2005 providing indemnity for water companies. This legislation was key in removing obstacles towards the expansion water fluoridation across England.

Is There Still a Good Case for Water Fluoridation?

I blame my dentists. Not for poor dental care—Barbara and Gordon do great work. I blame them for sending me into a vortex of dento-epistemological anxiety.

On a tooth-cleaning visit not long ago, Barbara told me that in the late 1970s, when she attended dental school, her professors expected that most middle-class patients would lose a lot of their teeth and need dentures by the time they were in their 60s. Today, she said, most middle-class people keep their teeth until they are 80. The main reason for this, Barbara explained, was fluoridation—the practice of putting fluoride compounds in community drinking water to combat tooth decay......

Association between fluoride exposure and behavioural outcomes of school-age children: a pilot study in China

Journal Contribution

 posted on 13.04.2020, 13:46 by Anqi Wang Leizhen Duan Hui Huang Jun Ma Yawei Zhang Qiang Ma Yao Guo Zhiyuan Li Xuemin Cheng Jingyuan Zhu Guoyu Zhou Yue Ba

To assess the association between fluoride exposure and children’s behavioural outcomes, we recruited 325 resident school-age children (7–13 years old) lived in Tongxu County of Henan Province in China. We measured urinary fluoride (UF) concentrations using the ion-selective electrode method. Children’s behavioural outcomes were assessed by Conners’ Parent Rating Scale-Revised, including conduct problems, learning problems, psychosomatic problems, impulsive-hyperactive, anxiety, and ADHD index. It turned out that each 1.0 mg/L increment in UF concentration corresponded with an elevation in the psychosomatic problem score of 4.01 (95% CI: 2.74, 5.28) and a 97% (OR = 1.97, 95% CI: 1.19, 3.27) increase in the prevalence of psychosomatic problems after adjusting for potential influencing factors. The sensitivity analysis results were consistent with those observed in our preliminary analysis. Our study suggests that fluoride exposure is positively related to the behavioural problem in school-age children, psychosomatic problem in particular.

from Ann Wills

George Pinnell has asked me to let you know about a TV documentary on tonight (Easter Sunday, 12 April) “The Poison Squad.”   It charts the forgotten chemist who laid the groundwork for US consumer protection laws & ultimately the FDA.  It’s on Channel 0091 Freeview, on PBS America at 21.50 to 23.00pm.   

Ann

Australia

Doctors ramp up bid to add fluoride to our water supply

Observer-1 hour ago

AMA Queensland will write to newly elected councillors on merits of fluoridation. Health. Doctors ramp up bid to add fluoride to our water supply

Australia - Consider both sides of fluoride debate - but be informed

I wish to respond to an inflammatory letter (March 23) to the Port News by Conjoint Associate Professor (University of Newcastle) Phillip Geary, Ph. D.

He attacks Mayor Peta Pinson for proceeding "with a vote to remove fluoride from the water supply", and claims...... "there should be absolutely no continuing debate about this!"

If challenged, I would hope Dr. Geary agrees that a fairly conducted scientific debate is essential to keep science honest.

Dr. Geary has unfairly attacked Mayor Pinson without providing a shred of evidence to support his proposition that, "The science is settled and fluoride must continue to be added to our water supply as it has been clearly shown to reduce the rate of tooth decay."

Geoff Pain, Ph.D. (chemistry) spoke convincingly against fluoride at the Westport Bowling Club in November, 2017.

Mayor Pinson and Deputy Mayor Lisa Intemann, Ph.D., were in attendance.

Dr. Pain presented scientifically valid examples of fluoride harms demonstrating that fluoride is a bio-accumulating, endocrine disrupting, neurotoxin and carcinogen.

Long-serving dentists and vigilant citizens will have observed an overall reduction in tooth decay over the period 1970 to 2010.

The World Health Organisation (WHO) reports significant reductions in decay rates over this period for both fluoridated and non-fluoridated countries.

The downward sloping trend lines show extensive overlap indicating factors other than fluoride are in play.

Clearly, residents should consider both sides of the debate before voting.

John Lusk, M.Sc., Ph.D.

Letters: 'Public Health England's belief that water fluoridation reduces tooth decay is built on quicksand'

DOCTORS Lowry and Robson (HAS, March 20) assert that oral health in fluoridated Newcastle is “much better than in the neighbouring non-fluoridated areas”.

What statistics are they reading? The Dental Health Surveys (DHS) are plagued by varying participation. If you believed them, you would have recommended more fluoride for Newcastle’s water after the 2007-08 survey since it showed that 53 per cent of five-year-olds had decayed teeth.

But the participation in the survey was only six per cent.

In the 2014-15, participation in the survey across the North-East was again low at an average of 12 per cent, causing an apparent “spike” in tooth decay in Sunderland and Darlington. This “decay” then fell off by 29 per cent and 25 per cent respectively over the next two years, probably due to better participation (an average of 52 per cent).

A study of extraction rates due to caries in our local hospitals may be more accurate, since consent is not sought as in a DHS. People come to hospital because they need to.

Using Government data, comparing some fairly deprived locations of Sunderland, South Tyneside and Middlesbrough, with similarly-deprived fluoridated Newcastle we see that in age group 0-10 years, average hospital tooth extractions for caries in Newcastle over a five-year period from 2014 onwards, was (respectively) quadruple, triple and double that of the three un-fluoridated towns.

This pattern repeats in fluoridated North Tyneside, where the extractions are triple, double and 1.4 times that of the un-fluoridated towns.

The only possible explanation is that artificial fluoride weakens teeth in Newcastle and North Tyneside.

Public Health England’s belief that water fluoridation reduces tooth decay is built on quicksand. The contradiction between its expectations and the reality of extra-hospital extractions in North-East fluoridated towns threatens to undermine and destroy the fluoridation programme, and not before time.

Tony Watson, School Aycliffe

Maternal and fetal exposures to fluoride during mid-gestation among pregnant women in northern California

Conclusions

We found universal exposure to fluoride in pregnant women and to the fetus via the amniotic fluid. Fluoride concentrations in urine, serum, and amniotic fluid from women were positively correlated to public records of community water fluoridation. Community water fluoridation remains a major source of fluoride exposure for pregnant women living in Northern California.

Daily Mail

The man with the poisoned chalice: Prof John Newton will oversee the government's plan to carry out 100,000 coronavirus tests a day by end April

Speaking this afternoon , Health Secretary Matt Hancock pledged to carry out 100,000 coronavirus tests every day by the end of the month, tasking Professor John Newton with delivering the target.

This is the man who 10 years ago led the unsuccessful fluoridation attempt in Southampton. To see video http://hafvideos.blogspot.com/

I remember when I told him Prof Sheldon who had headed the York review was opposed to fluoridation he retorted He is only one man.

F.A.N. Newsletter

With the coronavirus keeping most people at home these days, we thought this would be a good time to share a list of our most viewed videos, to both entertain and educate, while hopefully helping take your mind off of the pandemic.

For more than a decade, the Fluoride Action Network has been producing high quality videos to educate the public about fluoride science and the risks associated with water fluoridation.  Nearly 100 videos can be found on our YouTube page and embedded on our Facebook page. Together, these videos have amassed more than 1.4 million views, and this doesn't take into account the large number of our videos that have been duplicated and shared by other YouTube pages or embedded on the websites of affiliated campaigns or independent news organizations and bloggers (likely doubling or tripling the total view count).

If you search YouTube you will also find countless videos with tens of thousands of views that also feature FAN representatives--particularly our Director Paul Connett and Dr. Bill Osmunson--that we haven’t included in this bulletin, but certainly recommend you look for. It’s also worth noting that our Professional Perspectives video has also been distributed on DVD—for which we don’t have a hard count of views—and was also re-uploaded to our YouTube account after it had previously had over 200,000 views.  

Here are FAN's top videos:

#1 – (366,679 views) – Pro Perspectives Short Featuring Dr. Bill Osmunson 

Produced in 2008, this 5-minute video is a short clip from Professional Perspectives on Water Fluoridation (see further down this list).  Dr. Bill Osmunson -- a general and cosmetic dentist -- explains why he opposes water fluoridation. 

#2 - (305,907 views) - 10 Facts About Fluoride

Produced in 2013, this 20-minute video features Attorney Michael Connett summarizing 10 basic facts about water fluoridation. 

#3 - (73,597 after 2^nd upload /over 273,000 total) - Professional Perspectives on Water Fluoridation

Produced in 2008, this 29-minute features a Nobel Laureate in Medicine, three scientists from the National Research Council's landmark review on fluoride, as well as dentists, medical doctors, and leading researchers in the field present a powerful indictment of the water fluoridation program.

#4 - (164,500 views) - Fluoride Fundamentals #4: Sources of Fluoride 

Produced in 2018, this 4-minute video has the most views of any of our Facebook videos and of our Fluoride Fundamentals Series.  FAN’s Executive Director Paul Connett PhD addresses why we should be paying attention to the source of fluoride chemicals added to our drinking water. 

#5 - (120,148 views) - Our Daily Dose 

A brilliant and beautiful 20-minute film on fluoridation directed and produced in 2015 by filmmaker Jeremy Seifert (director of the acclaimed documentary "GMO OMG"). Made with a deft artistry, the film packs a powerful punch, and should be shared with friends, family, neighbors, the media, and elected officials.  The film can also be downloaded for easy sharing via DVD (for $10).

#6 - (70,203 views) - The Fluoride Deception: an interview with Chris Bryson 

Produced in 2008, this 28-minute video features an interview with Christopher Bryson, an award-winning journalist, former BBC producer, and author of “The Fluoride Deception”.

#7 - (39,690 views) - Dr. Vyvyan Howard on Fluoride in Drinking Water 

Produced in 2008, this 4-minute video is a short clip from Professional Perspectives on Water Fluoridation featuring Dr. Vyvyan Howard, President of the International Society of Doctors for the Environment. Dr. Howard is a medical toxico-pathologist who specializes in the impact of toxins on fetal and infant health. In this video, Dr. Howard discusses his concerns about fluoride's impact on infant health.   

#8 - (39,680 views) - Health Professionals Call for End to Water Fluoridation 

A 2008 ABC News story covering FAN's professionals statement calling on Congress to stop water fluoridation. 

#9 - (35,000 views) - Coalition Urges EPA to End Water Fluoridation

This 2-minute video from 2016 shows the moment a coalition of environmental, medical and health groups served the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) with a Petition calling on the Agency to ban the addition of fluoridation chemicals to public water supplies due to the risks these chemicals pose to the brain.

#10 - (21,849 views) - Ralph Nader on Water Fluoridation 

Consumer advocate, Ralph Nader, discusses his long held thoughts and opinions on water fluoridation. Nader has made his public opinions against fluoridation available to the public for over four decades.

#11 - (20,560 views) - Poisoned Horses

Produced in 2011, this 34-minute video features Dr. David Kennedy, dentist and researcher, presenting the story of Cathy and Wayne Justus of Pagosa Springs, Colorado.  Their world class quarter horses and their dogs experienced incredibly debilitating symptoms with seemingly no source or reason. After the death of Cathy's prize horse, Dr. Lennart Krook, Professor Emeritus of Cornell University College of Veterinary Medicine, tested for fluoride toxicity and discovered they had been poisoned by fluoride in their drinking water.  Because of Cathy's tenacious campaigning, fluoridation was eventually stopped in their community, and the side-effects went away.

#12 - (19,834 views) - Dr. William Hirzy & EPA Union on Fluoridation 

On June 29th, 2000, Dr. William Hirzy was invited to give testimony before a subcommittee of the U.S. Senate. At the time, Dr. Hirzy was serving his sixth term as the Senior Vice-President of EPA's Headquarters Union of Scientists and Professionals. His presentation that day was, “Why EPA’s Union of Professionals Opposes Fluoridation.” This is a video that documents the presentation along with interviews with Dr. Hirzy where he describes the reasoning behind the professional and official stance of his Union members in direct opposition to the EPA’s administrative support of fluoridation.

Thank you,

Stuart Cooper
Campaign Director
Fluoride Action Network