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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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“We think the cost benefit is not there,” said Karen Alexander, the president of the association. Many opponents say their information has come online, from national groups like the Fluoride Action Network and Citizens for Safe Drinking Water, which argue that fluoridation would cost $5 billion …
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Earlier this year, officials in Pinellas County in Florida decided to remove the cavity-fighting chemical from its water supply. Was it a mistake? The government has been drugging us for years. Since the 1940s, municipalities across the United States have been voluntarily adding fluoride to their …
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1945: Grand Rapids, Michigan, becomes the first U.S. city to fluoridate its drinking-water supply. Fluoridation, implemented as a means of reducing tooth decay, involves adding one part per million of fluoride to the water supply. (The optimum level, according to the Centers for Disease Control, …
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Public health officials say the evidence is solid that fluoridated drinking water helps protect teeth. Jim Cole/AP hide caption toggle caption Jim Cole/AP The federal Centers for Disease Control calls fluoridated water one of the top 10 public health achievements of the 20th century. But many …
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For decades, the issue of fluoridated water remained on the fringes. The John Birch Society took up the cause, seeing fluoride as a communist plot to poison the nation. References to Nazis using fluoride to pacify prisoners in concentration camps — a claim that was never proved — circulate even …
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Jan. 7, 2010— — After decades of touting the importance of fluoride, federal officials now say that many Americans may be getting too much of a good thing.For years, parents have heeded their dentists’ warnings and had their children take fluoride supplements or use fluoride toothpaste, in …
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