Fluoride Linked to Bone Cancer, Again

Yahoo Financial News ^ | June 27, 2005 | NYS Coalition Opposed to Fluoridation

[Moonman62]

OPE

POE

[bmwcyle]

I knew it.

[OldFriend]

We even bought fluoride free toothpaste for our children.

The danger has long been known, but in every case it was always.....the government knows best......and the poison was put in the water.

[Sidebar Moderator]

Do you have a working link and source for this? Thanks.

[stocksthatgoup]

Junk Science 303 - Flouride's benefits are enormous. Dental problems markedly reduced leading to longer and better lives.
Follow the money - No one gets rich on flouridation or water or toothpaste.
Listen to flouride phobics at your own risk.

[stocksthatgoup]

Junk Science 303 - Flouride's benefits are enormous. Dental problems markedly reduced leading to longer and better lives.
Follow the money - No one gets rich on flouridation of water or toothpaste.
Listen to flouride phobics at your own risk.

[bjc]

The link to cancer may well be the case. However, it is totally irresponsible to report this type of research without giving the reader the opportunity to see what the baseline incidence of the "disease" is. For example, with a large enough epidemiological sample increasing the chances of the disease from 1 in 1 million to 2 in 1 million will be "significant" - but it tells us nothing about the net health benefits and risks.
I am neither for nor against fluoride - I am definitely against bad scientific journalism that drives about rational thinking with fear and hysteria.

[gridlock]

It saps our precious bodily fluids...

[babble-on]

Loss of Essence

[plangent]

The lede paragraph says it all:

Osteosarcoma is a RARE form of bone cancer.

Thus, after 50+years and billions of exposures to flouride, it seldom appears in the exposed population.

The causative link is imaginary. More scientific moonbat-ery.

[dhuffman@awod.com]

That's OK. The NAS also recently rejected the LNT hypothesis. Follow the money. See my tagline.

[OldFriend]

The benefits are imaginary.

[bjc]

It certainly looks like it is junk science. I just took a quick look at one of the cited studies listed on the link provided on the original article. After selectively extracting quotes from the study that supported the possible link between fluoridation the editors of the site omitted the studies conclusions:

In summary, analysis of incidence data from the SEER program has revealed some age- and sex-specific increases over time for bone and joint cancers, and for osteosarcomas, which are more prominent in fluoridated than in non-fluoridated areas. However, on hrther (sic) analysis these increases are unrelated to the timing of fluoridation, and thus are not linked to the fluoridation of water supplies. (emphasis added) http://www.fluoridealert.org/health/cancer/nci-1990.pdf

Moreover, a quick look at the pattern of numbers indicate that the effects are very small in absolute terms (Base-line incidence rate is 1 in 100,000) and that there is sufficient variance in the numbers that any effects could be caused by chance. Finally, again after a very brief review, the data could be interpreted to suggest that prolonged exposure to fluoride actually reduces the chances of bone cancer!!

[Jabba the Nutt]

I can no longer sit back and allow Communist infiltration, Communist indoctrination, Communist subversion and the international Communist conspiracy to sap and impurify all of our precious bodily fluids.

God willing, we will prevail, in peace and freedom from fear, and in true health, through the purity and essence of our natural... fluids. God bless you all".

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

Newly available research, out of Harvard University, links fluoride in tap water, at levels most Americans drink, to osteosarcoma, a rare form of bone cancer.

So, perhaps one American in a million is afflicted with it naturally, and because of fluoridation five Americans in a million are afflicted with it. Horrible! But what are the positive effects of the fluoridation on the rest of the million people?

[RedRightReturn]

The real problem

http://www.dhmo.org

[js1138]

I suggest you actually read some of your sources and references.

http://kidshealth.org/parent/medical/cancer/cancer_osteosarcoma.html

[stocksthatgoup]

No Fluoride & British Dentistry ......... Doesn't everyone want that? (/sarcasm)

[stocksthatgoup]

British Dentistry on display.