By ELAINE URIE AND LISA HATCH
Special to the Herald Times
RANGELY I In April, Rangely voters will vote on fluoridation of our drinking water to continue or to stop it.
Our message is simple from proved sources, fluoride prevents tooth decay when applied topically; fluoride is toxic to our physical health when ingested. It’s about awareness to facts/truth/proved studies, “drinking” fluoride does not reduce tooth decay, and it is toxic and causes physical disease.…
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None of the alleged arguments or studies provided by “Forced-fluoridation Freedom Fighters” prove drinking optimally fluoridated water has any harmful. The only studies provided by fluoridation opponents as alleged evidence all have one, usually more, of the following characteristics:
1) The study referenced had nothing to do with drinking optimally fluoridated water (OFW);
2) The study examined exposure to fluoride ions at far higher levels than found in OFW;
3) Actual study conclusions were deliberately distorted, misused &/or misstated to fit anti-F propaganda;
4) The study conclusions only suggested a possible weak correlation (or association), not a causal relationship;
5) The study didn’t consider or adjust for numerous other factors potentially associated with the alleged risk, and it proved nothing;
6) The study was unrepeatable;
7) The study was demonstrably flawed and had significant limitations
&/or
8) The claim was a complete fabrication.
For specific refutations of anti-F propaganda and references to scientific studies and reviews that support fluoridation, search on:
> Fluoridation Facts, American Dental Association
> 2016 World Health Organization, Fluoride and Oral Health
> Fluoridation | Open Parachute
> American Fluoridation Society
> Fluoridation Reviews and Studies – cyber-nook
> Fluoridation and the Scientific Consensus – cyber-nook
> What do health experts say about fluoridation: Campaign for Dental Health
> NSF Fact Sheet on Fluoridation
> A Natural History of Fluoride – Wired
> AFS response to 2017 NYSCOF press release, Fluoridation