Call to Action Letter
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ACTION: "Here's a letter for you to sign and send to help get fluoridation eliminated in California. Please print out copies for your friends who do not have email. Fax or mail it to Senator Speier, Attorney General, Bill Lockyer and your legislators. To find out who your representatives are, go here, enter your zip code and your representatives are displayed. Thanks for helping. ----- need help cutting & pasting? The Honorable
Jackie Speier Subject: Water Fluoridation Dear Senator Speier, In 1995 you sponsored a well-intentioned bill (AB 733) to fluoridate the water of all cities in California with 10,000 or more customers. Since that time, you probably have read of the concerns of 1500 scientific professionals from EPA headquarters in Washington, D.C. In l997 they announced, there are links between water fluoridation and cancer, bone pathologies, genetic damage and neurological problems including learning disabilities in young children. Therefore, they have gone on record against fluoridation. I am sure you would not wish any of these health problems on anyone. In April of l999, a little over a year ago, the leading pro-fluoride promoter in Canada reversed his 20-year support of water fluoridation. Dr. Hardy Limeback, B.Sc., Ph.D. in Biochemistry, D.D.S, and president of the Canadian Association for Dental Research, admitted that, speaking as head of preventive dentistry, he had unintentionally mislead his colleagues and students. "For the past 15 years, I had refused to study the toxicology information that is readily available to anyone. Poisoning our children was the furthest thing from my mind." He continued, "Absolutely no one has done research on fluorosilicates, which is the junk they're dumping into the drinking water. Your well-intentioned dentist is simply following 50 years of misinformation from public health and the dental association. Me, too. Unfortunately, we were wrong." As you probably are also aware, a survey of 280,000 children was done in Massachusetts and released in August l999. It was published in the International Journal of Environmental Studies and was conducted by Roger Masters, Head of Dartmouth's Foundation for Neuroscience and Society. He is also the Nelson A. Rockefeller Professor of Government Emeritus at Dartmouth. He and Myron Coplan, a registered professional Chemical Engineer and private consultant in chemical engineering discovered that, "Children who live in communities where silicofluorides fluosilicic acid and sodium silicofluorides are used, were likely to have twice the blood lead levels of other children. Lead poisoning is associated with higher rates of learning disabilities, hyperactivity, substance abuse and crime." Ninety percent of all fluoridation is done with the above chemicals. Recently it was announced that children in poor sections of San Francisco, Oakland, and Long Beach (all fluoridated cities) have the highest levels of lead. We need to address the unspoken ways these children are ingesting lead. The most eye-opening news comes from the highly regarded Senes Oak Ridge Inc. Center for Risk Analysis in Tennessee. They are specialist in Energy, Nuclear and Environmental Sciences and as such, do risk assessments for many states, counties and branches of the armed services. Please see our web site (www.no.fluoride.com/Hot topics) to confirm the list of their clients. The City of Escondido when faced with the threat of fluoridation asked Senes to evaluate the science used to back AB 733. Of the California Oral Health Needs Assessment l993-94, the study which AB 733 was based on, Senes has revealed: 1. One of the authors, R. Isman, was under indictment with the Oregon State Supreme Court for election code violations concerning an Oregon fluoridation ballot issue. He later became California's State Dental Director and he also became author, planner, as well as critical reviewer of the study used to lobby AB 733 through the CA state Legislature. 2. The draft report was not published or peer-reviewed in the six years since its completion. 3. Does not establish total fluoride exposure on an individual or average basis and does not consider all sources of fluoride exposure such as intake from daily beverages and food. The data on dental caries in California children should be reanalyzed to account for the effects or lack of effects of total fluoride intake. For further results of the study, please refer to www.nofluoride.com or call (650) 325-7530 for a hard copy. We urge you to consider the recall of AB 733 or revive and work to pass AB 1729 (Bock) in its original form to assure the quality of fluoride being added to the state's water supplies. As a woman, we would expect you to do the right thing, and not go along with politics as usual. Also, you may want to review the statement from the Dental Board of Examiners which is also on our web site (Hot Topics). The letter makes it clear that dentists have never been schooled in the long term effects of ingested fluoride. Their ONLY training is in in-office application of fluoride gels. Any dentist who tells you that fluoride is safe when ingested in small amounts over the years is treading on ethically questionable ground. Please let me know your intentions regarding this matter. Sincerely,
cc: Attorney
General Bill Lockyer, (916) 323-5340 (fax) |