(Environmental) Group: Dentist hid fluoride-cancer link

Science Daily & UPI ^ | June 28, 2005

[truthandlife]

An environmental group alleges a dentist who teaches at Harvard concealed a student's findings linking fluoride to bone cancer.

The Environmental Working Group, which is based in Washington, planned to file a complaint Tuesday with federal regulators against Dr. Chester Douglass, the Boston Herald reports.

Douglass is a professor of epidemiology at the Harvard School of Dental Medicine. The group says that he received a grant from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences to study a possible link between fluoride and bone cancer in adolescent boys.

The EWG says a student, Dr. Elise Bassin, found a correlation and that Douglass, while signing off on her research, did not include it in his grant report.

Douglass is the editor in chief of the Colgate Oral Care report, a newsletter subsidized by Colgate Palmolive.

[satchmodog9]

More crap.

[alice_in_bubbaland]

Agreed! Where are the facts to substantiate these claims!

[Xenophobic Alien]

General Jack D. Ripper: Mandrake, do you realize that in addition to fluoridating water, why, there are studies underway to fluoridate salt, flour, fruit juices, soup, sugar, milk... ice cream. Ice cream, Mandrake, children's ice cream.

Group Capt. Lionel Mandrake: Lord, Jack.

General Jack D. Ripper: You know when fluoridation first began?

Group Capt. Lionel Mandrake: I... no, no. I don't, Jack.

Nineteen hundred and forty-six. Nineteen forty-six, Mandrake. How does that coincide with your post-war Commie conspiracy, huh? It's incredibly obvious, isn't it? A foreign substance is introduced into our precious bodily fluids without the knowledge of the individual. Certainly without any choice. That's the way your hard-core Commie works.

[Buffalo Head]

"....linking fluoride to cancer...."

The JBS has preached that for decades. Maybe the blind squirrel actually found a nut.

[Doctor Stochastic]

"Mandrake, have you ever heard of the fluoridation of water?"

[norraad]

...blind squirrel..

'"I'll tell ya', it was so hot today, I saw a squirrel using an oven mitt to hold his nuts!"

[BlackRain]

Damn Dirty (apes) Dentists.

The whole time they were secretly poisoning us with fluoride treatments during routine cleanings.

No wonder dentists have the highest suicide rate, some just can't handle the conspiracy!

Heh heh...

[norraad]

But seriesly folks, Dentists could be a bit more honest.

One of the things they know is along with hardness (from the big F ) comes brittleness.

This allows teeth to break easier later in life.

That brings in the big boat payments for caps, etc..

[JCISLORD]

Actually, if you do a little research, you will find that Fluoride is a byproduct of Aluminum. It is very poisonous in larger quantities, so the finding that it caused bone cancer is not without merit. Researched this many years ago and also found that Fluoride does NOTHING to prevent cavities as we have been led to believe.

[Sonny M]

My dentist once told me Fluoride only does something if you brush with it, other wise its totally useless, and he thought it was stupid to ever add it to water.

[Steve Van Doorn]

In this case I am hoping the environmental group comes up with some strong evidence.

[satchmodog9]

No one is advocating using it in larger quantities. You tell me your anecdotal story about the uselessness of Fluoride and the post below your last one said it had some benefit. Once again, conflicting stories, agendas and information. There is so much bullcrap in this country it is almost impossible to find the truth.

[norraad]

..so much ™ßullçrœp.

Like the freon/ozone scandel.

All that junk science traces back to Dupont sponsored studies at USC.

Dupont simply didn't want to disturb it's refrigerant monopoly, but other nutball professors ran the "Kings new clothes" story into the mess we have today.

[Steve Van Doorn]

My problem with fluoride is that they are allowing a chemical to be added to ‘benefit’ society, which has nothing to do with water treatment.

We shouldn’t even have to ask the question if it is beneficial or not.