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'Cancer Scares'
'In the mid-1970s, John Yiamouyiannis, Ph.D. and another anti began issuing a series of reports claiming that fluoridation causes cancer. Experts concluded that these reports were based on a misinterpretation of government statistics. They had compared cancer death rates in fluoridated and nonfluoridated cities but failed to consider various factors in each city (such as industrial pollution) that are known to raise the cancer death rate. By 1977, independent investigations by eight of the leading medical and scientific organizations in the English-speaking world had refuted the claims, but they still surface today in many communities that consider fluoridation.In 1990, the cancer charge was raised again following an unauthorized release of data from an experiment in which rats and mice were exposed to high dosages of fluoride. The experiment was conducted by the National Toxicology Program, a branch of the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences. The agency's final report stated that there was no evidence of cancer-causing activity in female rats or in male and female mice and only "equivocal evidence" in male rats. Subsequent review by a U.S. Public Health Service expert panel concluded that the data were insignificant and that fluoridation posed no risk of cancer or any other disease."

Once again,
http://www.quackwatch.org/03HealthPromotion/fluoride.html

“Experts concluded” = Propagandists asserted.

The study included biological testing, and the body of statistics in the intervening period fully support the study.

Thank you Mr. Shill for your contribution.

Rebel,

The Fl- scare is a market place for those to sell goods (books, CD, herbs, filters) to those stupid enough to buy. You are totally correct in that dosage is not well understood and just about any thing we put into our bodies can kill. Just a few years ago there was a Wii contest and a lady ingest too much H2O and died. We need to start a new thread and let everyone know that H2O is a deadly poison. Do the fear mongers ask what else is added to the water supply? If a very poison like chlorine is not added the water may kill thousands of folks. Many communities add a form of pot ash, a poison to keep the supply lines from corrosion. If it makes sense to remove the Fl- it makes more sense to remove the other two stronger poisons As a Doctor of Dental Medicine I have professionally study Fl- for many decades and continually find that used in proper dosage to be safe and very effective in the prevention of tooth decay. tk

This article was revised on March 4, 2001

Your quackwatch article is 10 years old. Loses its "quackness" if that's the most recent scaremongering you can find.

FWIW, that "scaremongering" kind of stuff is more for the Oprah show than for this forum. Most FR peeps are pretty savvy and do their own research into stuff....do you really care if they use herbal drops with success? Do you really believe the government would not steer the masses wrong? Do you really see a problem with people choosing to disagree with crap being ADDED to our drinking water?