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All~

 

Just received this from Dr. Paul Connett from the Fluoride Action Network re: the statement to end water fluoridation worldwide.

If any of you are professionals and could sign this he would appreciate it very much. Please see details below~~

 

Thanks so much~~

 

Regards/ Jean W.

- Paul Connett

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Wednesday, July 25, 2007 10:09 AM

[FAN Bulletins] 849: The First 400, part 3: An Analysis

FLUORIDE ACTION NETWORKhttp://www.FluorideAction.netFAN Bulletin 849: The First 400, part 3: An AnalysisJuly 25, 2007Dear All, Below is an analysis of the first 400 names of the professionals who signed the statement calling for an end to water fluoridation worldwide.This statement and list of names will be made public on August 1, and in the next 7 days we will be trying to get as close as we can to 500. If you want to help achieve the impossible, please locate one person with a PhD, MD, ND, DO, DC, DDS, DMD, BDS, RN, RDH, JD or equivalent, or an employee at a water utility or an officer in an environmental organization, and who is willing to sign. Please get them to email me at <paul with these details:Name: _________Degree__________Title, or position____________ Town______State________ThanksPaul Connett----An analysis of the first 400 names of the professionals who signed the statement calling for an end to water fluoridation worldwide.Academics: 80 PhDs or equivalent.Dental professionals: 98 (72 DDS, 12 DMD, 9 BDS, 3 RDH and 2 others)Medical professionals: 93 (66 MD (or equiv), 12 ND, 6 DO, 2 DC, 1 OMD, 6 RN) Legal professionals: 9 (5 JD)Water department personnel:Countries represented (34): Argentina, Australia, Austria, Belarus, Belgium, Bulgaria, Canada, Czech Rep., England, France, Germany, Hungary, India, Indonesia, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Lebanon, Malaysia, Nepal, Netherlands, New Zealand, Northern Ireland, Philippines, Scotland, South Africa, South Korea, Sri Lanka, Switzerland, Taiwan, Thailand, Wales and the US.US states (41): AK, AR, AZ, CA, CO, CT, DE, FL, GA, HI, ID, IL, IN, KS, KY, LA, ME, MA, MI, MN, MO, MS, MT, NB, NC, NH, NJ, NM, NV, NY, OH, OK, OR, PA, SC, TN, TX, UT, VA, VT, WA (and DC, Puerto Rico and Akwesasne (the Mohawk Nation)).Signers include:3 members of the National Research Council panel (NRC, 2006): Dr. Bob Isaacson, Dr. Hardy Limeback and Dr. Kathleen Thiessen.2 members of the advisory panel for the York Review: Dr. Peter Mansfield and Dr. Sheila Gibson.A former Federal Health Minister for Australia: Doug N. Everingham, Australian Health Minister 1972-75.A former health advisor to the British Columbia government: Richard G. Foulkes, BA, MD, Abbotsford, B.C., CanadaThe newly elected President of the International Society of Doctors for the Environment (ISDE) which has 20,000 members worldwide, Dr. Vyvyan Howard. In his acceptance statement said Dr Howard said: "I'm against fluoridation: it's a ridiculous idea, based on very bad science." The Asociacion Argentina de Medicos por el Medio Ambeinte, Argentina, singed on as an organization.The President, Executive Director and the whole Board of Directors of the American Academy of Environmental Medicine. The President and Secretary of the Irish Doctors' Environmental Association, Elizabeth Cullen.Legendary folksinger, songwriter and activist for peace, justice and the environment, Pete Seeger3 authors of books on fluoride: Christopher Bryson (The Fluoride Deception; Barry Groves (Fluoride: Drinking Ourselves to Death); Dr. Hans Moolenburgh (Fluoride: The Freedom Fight)4 co-authors of books on Fluoride: Dr Albert Burgstahler (Fluoridation: The Great Dilemma); Pierre-Jean Morin, Nilles Parent and John Remington Graham (La fluoration: autopsie d'une erreur scientifique )Key fluoride researchers: Dr. Jennifer Luke (fluoride and the pineal gland); Dr. Bob Isaacson (fluoride and the brain); Dr. Hardy Limeback (fluoride and the bone and teeth); Dr. Anna Strunecka (interaction between F, Al and G-proteins); Dr. Lennart Krook (fluoride and damage to animals); Dr. Mark Diesendorf ("The Mystery of Declining Tooth Decay", Nature,1986); Dr. Sheila Gibson (fluoride and immune function); Dr. Peter Mansfeld (urine monitoring for fluoride); Rudolf Ziegelbecker (Austria) (statistical analysis debunking dental benefits) and A. K Susheela (fluorosis in India).Tohru Murakami, DDS, PhD, former President of Japanese Society for Fluoride Research.The current President and five past presidents of the International Academy of Oral Medicine and Toxicology: Janet Stopka (current); Stephen Baer, Richard Fischer, David Kennedy, Terrence Messerman and Phillip Sukel (past).Past President of the Canadian Association for Dental Research, Dr. Hardy Limeback.Two current officers in the Union representing the EPA professionals in DC: Dr. William Hirzy and Dr. Arthur Chiu and two former officers, Dr. Robert Carton and Dr. William Marcus.Two Goldman Environmental Prize winners: Von Hernandez, former director of Greenpeace (Philippines) 2003 Goldman Environmental Prize winner, Philippines and Craig Williams, Director, Kentucky Environmental Foundation, Director, Chemical Weapons Working Group, 2006 Goldman Environmental Prize, USTwo members of the Akwesasne nation: tribal Chief Jim Ransom and Henry Lickers, Director of the Department of the Environment of the Mohawks' Council of AkwesasneDistinguished scientists in other fields:

Lynn Margulis, PhD, Distinguished University Professor, Department of Geosciences, UMASS Amherst, member of the National Academy of Sciences, and a 1999 recipient of the National Medal of SciencePr Dominique Belpomme, Professor in medical oncology, ARTAC's Cancer Research Center, Paris, FranceJoe Cummins, PhD, Professor Emeritus of Genetics, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, CanadaProfessor C. Vyvyan Howard, MB, ChB, PhD, FRCPath, Bioimaging Research Group, Centre for Molecular Bioscience, University of Ulster, Northern Ireland Dr. Boyd Haley one of the world's leading experts on mercury toxicity.Dr. Murray Vimy another leading mercury researcher.Distinguished members of the environmental health community from North America:

Dr. Rosalie Bertell, Retired President, International Institute of Concern for Public Health, Toronto, CanadaDr. Steve Breyman, Executive Director, Citizens' Environmental Coalition, Albany, NY

Dr. Neil Carman, Clean air program director, Sierra Club Lone Star Chapter, Austin, TX Ellen Connett, formerly Editor of Waste Not (1986-2000), and currently Pesticides Project director for the Fluoride Action Network, Canton, NYKen Cook, Environmental Working Group, Washington, DCPat Costner, retired Senior Scientist, Greenpeace International Ronnie Cummins, National Director, Organic Consumers AssociationSandra Duffy, JD, Board President, Consumers for Dental Choice, Washington, DCLynn Howard Ehrle, Chair, International Science Oversight Board (a project of the Organic Consumers Association)Dr. Sam Epstein, Chairman, Cancer Prevention Coalition, Chicago, IllinoisMike Ewall, Director, ActionPA, Philadelphia, PAJay Feldman, Executive Director, Beyond Pesticides, Washington, DCAnn Fonfa, President, Annie Appleseed Project, Delray Beach, FLBrent Foster, Executive Director, Columbia Riverkeeper, ORDr. Peter Montague, Environmental Research Foundation, editor of one of the world's leading environmental newsletters for over 20 years, NJAlan Muller, Executive Director, Green Delaware, Port Penn, DEE.M.T. O'Nan, Director, Protect All Children's Environment, Marion, NCMark Riskedahl, Executive Director, Northwest Environmental Defense Center, Portland, OR Bryony Schwan, Executive Director, The Biomimicry Institute, Richard Wiles, Executive Director of the Environmental Working Group, Washington, DCCraig Williams, Director, Kentucky Environmental Foundation, Director, Chemical Weapons Working Group, Recipient: 2006 Goldman Environmental Prize, KY Distinguished members of the environmental health community from around the world:

Mark Diesendorf, PhD, Director, Sustainability Centre, Sydney, AustraliaGerry Gillespie (Director, Zero Waste Australia)Dr. Mariann Lloyd-Smith (Senior Advisor, National Toxics Network Inc., East Ballina, NSW, Australia)Ivaylo Hlebarov (Member of the Board for "Za Zemiata" (For the Earth), Sofia, Bulgaria)Mikael Laurent (Coordinator, Maison de la Consommation et de l'Environment, Rennes, France)Prof. Joerg Spitz (Managing director of the Society for Medical Information and Prevention in Germany, Wiesbaden, Germany)Tomori Balázs (President, Messzelátó Egyesület, Hungary)Bittu Sahgal (Editor, Sanctuary magazine, India) Rosie Cargin (Kinsale Environment Watch, Ireland)Dr. Elizabeth Cullen (Secretary, Irish Doctors' Environmental Association, Ireland)Dr. Philip Michael (Chair, Irish Doctors Environmental Association, Vice President [Europe] International Society of Doctors for the Environment, Ireland)Sergio Apollonio (President, Malagrotta (landfill) Committee, Rome, Italy)Dr. Ernesto Burgio (Vice-President, Scientific Committee of International Society of Doctors for Environment, Palermo, Italy)Rossano Ercolini (Ambiente e Futuro, Lucca, Italy)Wael Hmaidan (Executive Director of IndyAct, a global league of independent activists, Beirut, Lebanon) Thayanithi Kulenthran (Principal, & Strategic Planning and Operations director DayAnidhi Earth (Compassion for Earth) Selangor, Malaysia)Mageswari Sangaralingam (Consumers Association of Penang, Malaysia)Yuen-Mei Wong (Member, Broga/Semenyih No Incinerator Action Committee, Selangor, Malaysia)Ram Charitra Sah (Executive Director, CEPHED, Kathmandu, Nepal)Von Hernandez (2003 Goldman Prize winner, Manila, Philippines)Camille C. Sarmiento (Provincial Government Environment and Natural Resource Officer, Province of Northern Samar, Philippines)Sonia Mendoza (Chairman, Mother Earth Foundation, Quezon City, Metro Manila, Philippines)Muna Lakhani (National Co-ordinator, Institute for Zero Waste in Africa, Durban, South Africa)Kim Mi-hwa (Director, Korea Zero Waste Movement Network, Seoul, South Korea)Dilena Pathragoda (Project Director, Centre for Environmental Justice (CEJ), Colombo, Sri Lanka)George Cheng (Executive Director, Taiwan Watch Institute, Taiwan)Penchom Saetang (Coordinator, Campaign for Alternative Industry Network (CAIN), and Director of the Thai Right to Know project, Nonthaburi, Thailand)Viv Mountford, (Former Coordinator, Halton Friends of the Earth group, UK)Ralph Ryder (Communities Against Toxics, UK)Key players in the Recycling and Zero Waste movement (note the use of phosphate fertilizer hazardous waste products to fluoridate water is the worst recycling practice in the world!) Note both landfilling and incineration pose a serious threat to health:

Richard V Anthony, Principal, Richard Anthony Associates, Member of the Board of Directors California Resource Recovery Association (CRRA), Grass Roots Recycling Network (GRRN) and the Zero Waste International Alliance (ZWIA), San Diego, CAPaul Connett, PhD, Professor Emeritus of Chemistry, St. Lawrence University and Executive Director of the Fluoride Action Network, Canton, NYGary Liss, President of Gary Liss & Associates, CRRA Recycler of the Year (2005), and Leader of Recyclers Global Warming Council, Zero Waste for Global Cooling coalition, Global Recycling Council, and Zero Waste International Alliance, Loomis, CA.Dan Knapp, PhD, CEO of Urban Ore, Incorporated, a reuse and recycling business in Berkeley, CAJeffrey Morris, PhD, Sound Resource Management, Olympia, WA Bill Sheehan, PhD, former Executive director of the Grass Roots Recycling Network, current director of Product Policy Institute, Athens, GAWarren Snow, Envision New Zealand, Auckland, New Zealand Water department personnel:

Peter Alteri, Water Superintendent, Town of Cortlandville, NYPaul G. Slack, Manager, Mount Desert Water District, Northeast Harbor, ME

James Allison, Glen M. Bailes and Rene W. Fonseca, Carroll-Boone Water District, Eureka Springs, AR

Authors of books on other heath related issues:

Russell L. Blaylock, MD, "Health and Nutrition Secrets That Can Save Your Life"Dr. Sam Epstein, "The Politics of Cancer" Emily Kane, ND, Lac, "Managing Menopause Naturally"Joel M. Kauffman, PhD, "Malignant Medical Myths"Pam Killeen, co-author, "The Great Bird Flu Hoax"Randall Neustaedter, OMD, "Child Health Guide: Holistic Pediatrics for Parents" Mary O'Brien, PhD, "Making Better Environmental Decisions: An Alternative to Risk Assessment"James Presley, PhD, "A history of diabetes in the US"Karilee H. Shames, PhD, RN, and Richard L. Shames, MD, "Feeling Fat, Fuzzy or Frazzled?" and "Thyroid Power"These are just a few of the important names on the Professionals' statement . There are many others and the list is growing every day.Paul Connett_____________Fan_bulletins mailing listFan_bulletinshttp://lists.fluoridealert.org/listinfo/fan_bulletins