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Professional Perspectives on Water Fluoridation - Available on DVD
In
a full length video produced by the Fluoride Action Network, respected
professional researchers, scientists, and health practitioners openly
discuss their experience and opinions concerning the adverse health
effects and ethical problems associated with the public health policy of
water fluoridation.
Featuring 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, this professionally-produced 28 minute DVD presents a
powerful indictment of the water fluoridation program.
Here the list of Professionals included on the video:
The 28-minute DVD Professional Perspectives on Fluoridation features the following 15 experts:
Lord
Baldwin sits as an Independent Peer in the House of Lords, where he has
contributed to debates on the environment and health for over 20 years.
His Parliamentary Questions on fluoridation led to the UK Government
setting up the 'York' systematic scientific review of the evidence in
2000, on whose advisory panel he served. He is Co-Chair of the
All-Party Parliamentary Group Against Fluoridation - http://www.appgaf.org.uk/
Arvid
Carlsson, PhD, a neuro-pharmacologist. Dr. Carlsson led the successful
fight against fluoridation in Sweden in the 1970's. He won the Nobel
prize for medicine/physiology in 2000.
Bob Carton, PhD, a risk
assessment expert at the EPA (now retired). Dr. Carton was formerly the
President of the union which represents professionals working at the US
EPA headquarters in Washington DC. See Dr. Carton's important review of
the National Research Council report (NRC, 2006) at Carton, RJ (2006)
Fluoride: Review of the 2006 National Research Council Report: Fluoride
in Drinking Water. Fluoride, 39(3) 163-172. http://www.fluorideresearch.org/393/files/FJ2006_v39_n3_p163-172.pdf
Sir
Iain Chalmers, PhD, edits The James Lind Library, a web-based resource
containing explanatory material in seven languages about the principles
and evolution of fair tests of medical treatments. He was director of
the UK Cochrane Centre between 1992 and 2002, and director of the
National Perinatal Epidemiology Unit between 1978 and 1992.
Paul
Connett, PhD, an environmental chemist. Formerly, Professor of
Chemistry at St. Lawrence University in Canton, NY. Currently the
Executive Director, Fluoride Action Network, http://fluoridealert.org/
Brent Foster, JD, formerly Conservation Chair of the Oregon chapter of the Sierra Club.
Walter Graham helped in the very successful campaign to resist the imposition of water fluoridation on Northern Ireland.
Bill
Hirzy, PhD, a chemist, formerly with the US EPA. Dr. Hirzy is a former
Vice-President of the union which represents professionals working at
the US EPA headquarters in Washington, DC.
C. Vyvyan Howard, MB,
ChB, PhD, FRCPath, a fetal and infant toxico-pathologist. Professor
Howard is director of the Bioimaging Research Group, Centre for
Molecular Bioscience, University of Ulster, Coleraine, Northern Ireland;
and President of the International Society of Doctors for the
Environment (ISDE).
Bob Isaacson, PhD, a neuroscientist. Dr.
Isaacson was a member of the National Research Council review panel,
Fluoride in Drinking Water: A Review of EPA's Drinking Water Standards
(NRC, 2006) and also co-author of a very important animal study: Varner
JA, et al. 1998. Chronic administration of aluminum-fluoride and
sodium-fluoride to rats in drinking water: alterations in neuronal and
cerebrovascular integrity. Brain Research. 784: 284-298.
Tim Kropp, PhD, a toxicologist formerly with the Environmental Working Group in Washington, DC.
Hardy
Limeback, DDS, PhD, currently chair of Preventive Dentistry, University
of Toronto. Past President of the Canadian Association for Dental
Research and member of the National Research Council review panel,
Fluoride in Drinking Water: A Review of EPA's Drinking Water Standards
(NRC, 2006).
Phyllis Mullenix, PhD, a pharmacologist and
toxicologist. Former chairperson of the toxicology department of Forsyth
Dental Institute, Boston. Lead author of the seminal paper on
fluoride's impact on animal brain: Mullenix P, et al. 1995.
Neurotoxicity of Sodium Fluoride in Rats. Neurotoxicology and
Teratology. 17: 169-177.
Bill Osmunson, DDS, MPH, a dentist who practices in both Oregon and Washington state.
Kathleen
Thiessen, PhD, a health risk specialist working with the consulting
firm Senes Oak Ridge Inc., Center for Risk Analysis, Tennessee. Dr.
Thiessen was a member of the National Research Council review panel,
Fluoride in Drinking Water: A Review of EPA's Drinking Water Standards
(NRC, 2006).
To purchase a DVD and learn more about this video, please visit the Fluoride Action Network at: www.FluorideAlert.org
