Fluoride: Do You REALLY Know What's in Your Drinking Water?
by Kelly Hearn, AlterNet.org
Anti-fluoride
activists say a growing body of peer-reviewed scientific evidence
counters long-held assumptions about fluoride's safety, and they're
turning up the heat.
Last
month, the Environmental Working Group, a respected Washington-based
watchdog organization, called public attention to a Harvard study that
shows links between fluoride and bone cancer in young boys. That study,
conducted in 2001 by Elise Bassin, a Harvard doctoral student, stated
that “among males, exposure to fluoride at or above the target level
was associated with an increased risk of developing [the rare form of
bone cancer] osteosarcoma. The association was most apparent between
ages 5-10, with a peak at 6 to 8 years of age.”
The EWG,
which claims Bassin's study is the most comprehensive of its kind to
date, also formally accused Chester Douglass, a researcher at Harvard's
dental school and Bassin's former supervisor, of playing down her
results in a 2004 report to federal officials.
The EWG
has asked the National Institutes of Environmental Health Sciences
(NIEHS) to investigate Douglass and has called on federal officials to
list fluoride as a potential carcinogen.
Douglass,
who is the editor of an academic publication funded by the toothpaste
industry, told officials that his $1.3 million federally funded study,
which included Bassin's work, showed no significant link between
fluoridated water and osteosarcoma.
Both Harvard and the NIEHS are investigating EWG's claims.
(Click here to read the complete article.)
It just goes to show that it depends on who funds the study.
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Group calls on NIH to remove Harvard professor from fluoride-cancer study
BURLINGTON VT – The Fluoride Action Network (FAN) has urged that a Harvard Professor be removed from a research group studying the association between fluoride and osteosarcoma because his objectivity and ethics are disputed and he has ties to a company that profits from fluoride. FAN also urges other steps be taken to ensure this study meets the highest standards of scientific integrity.
In June, the Environmental Working Group (EWG) charged Chester Douglass, a professor at Harvard and editor of Colgate
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Hell! I'm not going to drink water anymore. 😦
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Fox News in Boston recently did a story on this. You can see it here and/or watch the vido
http://www.fluorideaction.net/fox-transcript.html
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