"The American Medical Association is NOT prepared to state that no harm will be done to any person by water fluoridation. The AMA has not carried out any research work, either long-term or short-term, regarding the possibility of any side effects."
- Dr. Flanagan, Assistant Director of Environmental Health, American Medical Association.
"Water contains a number of substances that are undesirable, and fluorides are just one of them" stated Dr. F. A. Bull, State Dental Director of Wisconsin, speaking at the Fourth Annual Conference of State Dental Directors.
Men stumble over the truth from time to time, but most pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened
- Winston Churchill
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"I am appalled at the prospect of using water as a vehicle for drugs. Fluoride is a corrosive poison that will produce serious effects on a long range basis. Any attempt to use water this way is deplorable."
- Dr. Charles Gordon Heyd, Past President of the American Medical Association.
"fluoridation ... it is the greatest fraud that has ever been perpetrated and it has been perpetrated on more people than any other fraud has."
- Dr. Professor Albert Schatz, (Microbiology), Nobel Prize Winner and the discovery of Streptomycin, the cure for tuberculosis and numerous other bacterial infections.
Fluoride may be destroying our bones, our teeth and overall health... it doesn't need to be added to our water and we may be taking unnecessary risks by doing so.
- Dr. Hardy Limeback, a leading Canadian fluoride authority, former fluoride advocate and long-standing consultant to Canadian Dental Association. Now a Professor of Dentistry at the University of Toronto.
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"The evidence against the safety of this public health policy keeps mounting; it is too compelling to ignore."
- Dr. Phyllis Mullenix, Children's Hospital, Boston
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"Based on data from the National Academy of Sciences, current levels of fluoride exposure in drinking water may cause arthritis in a substantial portion of the population long before they reach old age"
-Dr. Robert Carton, former EPA scientist.
"E.P.A. should act immediately to protect the public, not just on the cancer data, but on the evidence of bone fractures, arthritis, mutagenicity and other effects."
- Dr. William Marcus, Senior Toxicologist at E.P.A.