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Last week, the city of Portland, Oregon, once again, decided to vote “no” to a plan to fluoridate the city’s water supply. This marks the fourth time since 1956 that a plan like that has been rejected by voters. This year’s final vote was 60 percent to 40 percent, but boy is this a much more …
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Late last night, Portlanders rejected a plan to fluoridate their city’s water supply (and the water of over a dozen other cities). It’s the fourth time Portland has rejected the public health measure since 1956. It’s the fourth time they’ve gotten the science wrong. When new medical treatments are …
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Placeholder while article actions load The fluoridation war is alive in Portland, Ore. The city is one of the few major American cities that does not fluoridate its water supply. It is now in the middle of a heated battle about whether to change that. While the Portland City Council voted last fall …
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The recent resurrection of the fluoride debate by a sitting LNP Member is just the latest example of pollies who alter reality to suit their particular brand of populism. Perhaps Mr Woodforth wants to push his most fervently held ideological position onto the front pages before he loses his seat. …
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Cronkite News has moved to a new home at cronkitenews.azpbs.org. Use this site to search archives from 2011 to May 2015. You can search the new site for current stories. Thursday, Aug. 16, 2012 By Jerilyn Forsythe Cronkite News WASHINGTON – When she was diagnosed with hypothyroidism in 2004, …
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With West Manheim Township voting this week to take back its previous vote to dump fluoride, I am starting to get another round of emails from anti-fluoridation folks.Many send along links they say prove fluoride is useless at best, or dangerous at worst. I’m reposting a column here I wrote in …
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Strange Love: ‘Do you realize that fluoridation is the most monstrously conceived and dangerous Communist plot we have ever had to face?’ Fluoride opponents are setting up Santa Cruz to be a test case against the new state fluoridation law By John Yewell IN STANLEY KUBRICK’S 1963 cult classic, Dr. …
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The evidence that fluoridating drinking water is safe and prevents tooth decay is overwhelming and widely embraced. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the American Dental Association, the Florida Department of Health and the Pinellas County …
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Since officials first began adding fluoride to the Grand Rapids water supply in 1945, the pioneering practice has been hailed as one of the nation’s 10 great public health achievements of the previous 100 years.A small town in southeast Pennsylvania wants no part of it.Officials in Myerstown, …
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For all its renown as an engine of pharmaceutical and biotechnology progress, New Jersey has long lagged in what public health officials call one of the 10 biggest health advances of the last century: fluoridating its water. While 72 percent of Americans get their water from public systems that add …
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