Monday, May 11, 2015

Letter: Stop fluoridation of water supply

Letter: Stop fluoridation of water supply
from the Worcester Telegram 
Posted May. 8, 2015 at 5:16 PM

Yes…..for the first time in memory, the League of Women Voters (LWV) is NOT holding a debate for a contested Board of Selectman seat.


Reasons given by a LWV spokesperson included: My opponent was unavailable; the spring vacation week was ruled out; unavailability of a location for a televised debate and requisite LWV staffing; and the LWV didn’t have enough time.Really? Since February?


The LWV reason for the existence of the LWV is to educate the voters re: issues, candidates and elections. The LWV has failed in their mission.


Town Warrant Article #14, regarding fluoridation of the public water supply is going to be debated. The Town Manager stated he was unaware of discussions regarding the issue. On Thursday, January 11th, 2007, at the Town Hall, a Public Forum was held. Issues discussed included: The appointed Board of Health, no longer the voters, decide to start or continue to medicate the public water supply; forced public medication; the dangers to infants’ health and the fact that fluoride is a poison. Studies have shown there is no difference in tooth health between countries that fluoridate and those that don’t. 


There is evidence fluoride has an effect on mental health, especially in children. Things have changed since the 1950’s. There is no medically proven benefit from public water supply fluoridation. Fluoride is a poison, government “standards” notwithstanding. There are other voluntary methods if you choose fluoridation,
 

I urge you to vote to discontinue the forced public fluoride medication of our water supply.


BENJAMIN TARTAGLIA
Shrewsbury

 


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Shrewsbury Town Warrant Article #14 

ARTICLE 14 (By Petition)
To see if the Town will vote to approve a resolution to ban water fluoridation, or to take any other action in relation thereto.
Motion: I move that the Town vote to pass the following resolution to ban water fluoridation: 


WHEREAS, Fluoride is the only drug added to public water. Fluoride is added to drinking water to prevent a disease (tooth decay), and as such becomes a drug by FDA definition. Water fluoridation is a form of mass medication that denies you the right to informed consent. All water treatment chemicals, with the exception of fluoride, are added to make drinking water safe and pleasant to consume. Fluoride is the only chemical added to treat people who consume the water, rather than the water itself. With water fluoridation, you can't control the dose, you can't control who gets the treatment, and it violates the individual's right to informed consent to medication. 

WHEREAS, The Fluoride added to the public water supply is not pharmaceutical-grade which you would find in toothpaste. China does not allow water fluoridation. Instead, the waste product from China's phosphate fertilizer industry is shipped to the United States, where it is added to our water supply. 

 
WHEREAS, Ninety-nine percent of fluoridated water ends up on lawns, down shower drains, toilets, etc., where it ends up as waste polluting the environment. According to the EPA, it's illegal to release hexafluorosilicic acid (fluoride) into rivers and lakes or release the parent gases into the atmosphere, but if public water utilities add it to your drinking water, it's no longer classified as a pollutant. To put that in perspective, Shrewsbury has expended over $104,000 in the past 6 years on fluoride, which may mean that approximately $103,000 worth of fluoride never reached a citizen's tooth. Shrewsbury has budgeted $25,000 for Fluoride in FY 2015. 

WHEREAS, Fluoride has been classified as a neurotoxin, in the same category as arsenic, lead, and mercury. An article was published in the March 2014 journal The Lancet Neurology in which medical authorities classified fluoride as a developmental neurotoxin. 

WHEREAS, More than 40 percent of American teens show visible signs of fluoride overexposure. According to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), 41 percent of American children between the ages of 12 and 14 have dental fluorosis. Outwardly visual signs of this condition include pitting and discoloration of your teeth, caused by long-term ingestion of fluoride during early tooth formation. 

WHEREAS, Fluoridated countries do not have less tooth decay than non-fluoridated countries. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), there is no discernible difference in tooth decay between developed countries that fluoridate their water and those that do not. The decline in tooth decay the US has experienced over the last 60 years, which is often attributed to fluoridated water, has likewise occurred in all
developed countries-most of which do not fluoridate their water.

WHEREAS, Swallowing fluoride provides little benefit to teeth. In 1999, the CDC acknowledged that the predominant benefit of fluoride is topical not systemic. Fluoride's benefits are largely topical thus it makes more sense to provide readily available topical treatments such as fluoride toothpaste instead of ingesting fluoride through the public water supply. What is clear is that ingesting fluoride offers little, if any, benefit to your teeth.

WHEREAS, The City of Worcester, the second largest city in New England, does not add fluoride to their public water supply. Voters rejected measures to begin adding fluoride to the city water supply five times since the 1950s.

THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that Shrewsbury Town Meeting is against adding fluoride to the public water supply because fluoride should be a choice, not a mandate. With all other medicine, it is the patient and not the doctor who gets to choose, and when a medicine is added to water, that right is taken away; and be it

FURTHER RESOLVED, that Shrewsbury Town Meeting calls upon the Town of Shrewsbury to ban water fluoridation of its public water supply.

This is a petition article brought by Bryan Moss, 16 Ruthen Circle and others.

 

24 comments:

  1. The fluoride that is put in our water is poison, it has always been a poison and always will be. We have been lied to concerning water fluoridation it is not "safe and effective" it is a poison. Please come to town meeting to correct the big fib that was given to us by our government/big corporations. Thank you.

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    1. Dear Steve Slott,
      If you wish to make a comment on this blog that is not slanderous in nature, you will need to contact Dave Smart.

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  3. I will assume DDS means you r a dentist so no conflict there. I will note, as a definition for medication came up as follows: a pharmaceutical drug used to diagnose, cure, treat, or prevent disease. Now is flouride put in drinking water to prevent tooth decay or not. If flouride is in my water then why do I need it in my tooth paste and mouth wash? Now how much money is involved in dentists pushing those products and can I get flouride treatments at the dentist office? How much would that cost in your office. Remember that sugar and preservatives r two major food groups today.

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  4. Correction:
    If you wish to make a comment on this blog, you need to contact Dave Smart. See prior blogs for info on contacting Dave Smart. Those are the rules of this blog.

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  6. Steve my email in smart@nii to comment. This is for protection for you as well as others who have had identity theft.
    In the past we have had some post comments as people they were not. For that reason the only way we can protect you and others is with this email. It will allow me to contact you if there is a problem or some not you is posting as you.
    smart@nii.net

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  7. Another reason for flouride in the water is so the water dept. can tell if the water coming through baldwinville rd. and other spots is in fact a water main leaking. If no flouride they would have no idea if the water was from the water mains. There are many cities and towns that have removed the flouride from the water, Google it and you will see.If it was so good to flouridate why doesn't the medical city of Worcester mass put the poison in the water

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  9. Hello Dr. Slott. According to my Webster Dictionary you may well be prostituting yourself for fluoride, it is hoped that you are well paid. It would appear that you have spent most of the day here on this site promoting what many feel is an enzymatic poison. Would you be able to answer the following questions from a previous site you had visited a couple of years ago?

    Dear Dr. Slott,
    As such a highly respected and well educated dentist I am sure that you are very well aware that certain of your patients are allergic and/or sensitive to certain drugs and/or materials that are used in dentistry. Please answer each and every question–
    1. When a new patient comes to your office for treatment do you have them fill out a questionnaire first so you can identify which drugs and/or materials a patient is allergic and/or sensitive to? Yes or No
    2. Would you just go ahead and treat them without having this vital information in advance? Yes or No
    3. If you answered “Yes” to 2., what would the legal and moral implications of your doing this be? Please Explain
    4. If you answered “No” to 2, why you would not do it? Please Explain
    5. If a patient discloses to you that they are allergic and/or sensitive to a certain drug and/or material what do you do? Would you go ahead and use it anyway since most of your other patients tolerate the drug and/or material? Yes or No
    6. If you answered “Yes” to 5, why would you think it would be legally and ethically all right for you to do so? Please Explain
    7. If you answered “No” to 5, is it because you could inflict harm and even possibly kill the allergic/sensitive patient? Yes or No
    8. If you never met me would you come to my house and without knowing my medical history and which drugs and/or materials I am allergic and/or sensitive to force me to ingest or apply to my skin a drug and/or material? Yes or No
    9. If you would do such a thing why would you think it was safe or ethical to do so? Please Explain
    10. If you would not do such a thing why wouldn’t you? Please Explain
    11. Would you urge anyone else to come to my house and do that to me? Yes or No
    12. If not why not? Please Explain

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  10. 13. As a dental professional are you aware that allergic/sensitive reactions to various drugs and/or materials can vary from individual to individual and that different people can exhibit different reactions. For example one person could get nauseated or another could become dizzy or another may suffer a fatal episode of Anaphylaxis? Yes or No
    14. Considering that approximately 1% of the population is allergic/sensitive to fluoride do you think that segment of the population ought to be forced to ingest artificially fluoridated water and to apply it to their skin which results in dermal absorption–for example every time they wash their hands or take a shower? Yes or No
    15. I am one of those people who are allergic/sensitive to fluoride. In my case exposure to artificially fluoridated water results in serious and potentially fatal reactions. I do not have to drink it to suffer these symptoms–simple dermal exposure results in my suffering the same reactions because it is absorbed directly through the skin and is disseminated systemically. Do you think I should be forced to have fluoridated water? Yes or No
    16. If you answered “Yes” why do you think so? Please Explain
    17. If you answered “No” why do you think so? Please Explain
    18. Knowing that a certain segment of the population is allergic/sensitive to fluoride do you believe that it is ethically and legally permissible for you to publicly proclaim that artificial fluoridation is safe without providing a qualifying statement that it is harmful to a certain segment of the population? Yes or No
    Of course artificial fluoridation has numerous other detrimental systemic health effects–for instance on the thyroid, kidneys, brain, bones etc. However I want to confine my questions and your answers to just this one specific aspect–that of allergy/sensitivity to fluoride.
    I do not want my time wasted with proclamations of the prevalence of fluoride such as the amounts of calcium fluoride found in nature. Nickel is also a common naturally occurring and widely prevalent element yet is well known to be a strong allergic sensitizer. For example almost all of us know someone who cannot wear jewelry which contains nickel. Hopefully you would be so incompetent so as to placeM a nickel based crown, for example, into the mouth of a patient with nickel sensitivity and then when the patient reacted badly proclaim that it did not matter that you had acted in such a reckless manner because nickel is such a prevalent element that the patient could not avoid it completely.
    Thus please confine your answers to the specific above questions which I have numbered for your convenience. I am looking forward to reading the responses you will provide. Please number your responses to correspond with the questions.

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  11. * I have asked the exact same questions of you which I have copied and pasted above on numerous other comment sections but you have yet to answer them. Neither would pro-fluoridationist Johnny Johnson D.D.S. who frequently appeared on the same comment sections that you did. Instead both of you tried every trick in the book to evade answering them. Something is very wrong when neither of you would answer very simple and easy questions which would only have taken a few minutes.
    Please simply answer the 18 very easy questions. Do not yet again evade answering. Do not go off on other tangents. Do not bring up other subjects I have not even asked about. Do not make nasty and rude remarks. Do not make untrue and deliberately misleading remarks and claims. Do not attempt to falsely claim that allergy and/or hypersensitivity to fluoride does not exist when it is clearly described in the peer reviewed medical literature and on numerous products and drugs themselves as you well know because I previously provided the literature citations to you. You have repeatedly done all of these things. Please confine your responses to the questioned asked and number your responses to correspond to the questions.

    Thank you for your time.

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  12. For the record the Steve Slott comment poster has not made contact with me!
    smart@nii.net

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  13. smart@nii.net comment clearance please.

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  14. still no contact from steve slott

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  15. ONE WOULD HAVE TO THINK THE IDENTITY OF STEVE SLOTT IS NOT TO BE KNOWN.
    NO CONTACT HAS BEEN MADE AND IF NOT MADE WE WOULD HAVE TO ASSUME IT MAY BE SOME ONE NOT THE SLOTT HE SAYS HE IS.
    WHEN THE TOWN MEETINGS COME AROUND AND PEOPLE ARE INFORMED ABOUT ISSUES AND CHANGES IN BELIEFS THATS WHEN WE SEE COMMENTS FROM PEOPLE WHO ARE NOT WILLIG TO ID THEMSELVES.
    WHY NOT! TO BE TAKEN SERIOUSLY I NEED TO KNOW THEY ARE WHO THEY SAY THEY ARE!
    BALDWINVILLE ROAD STILL LEAKES AND IF IT GET FIXED SUNDAY FOR DOUBLE TIME IS THAT OK WITH THE RATEPAYER?
    smart@nii.net

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  16. http://www.columbiatribune.com/users/profile/steve_slott/
    Peter go to this link and check out content.
    If the steve slott here is the same we would think he would contact me!
    The pic shows a man much unger but some hide in many ways.
    Has the water dept checked the leak on Baldwinville road yet to see if the fluoride is present?

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  17. After a check this AM no contact from the poster or imposter SLOTT!
    Draw your own conclusion.
    Was it the Dr. Slott? Was it another identity theft we try to stop.
    If the real Dr. Slott could email me we would then know the true answer.
    smart@nii.net Anyone can post comments but i need to know who it is.the only way to know is by a email to contact them.

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  18. It must be there is a person posting as Steve Slott that is not him. After a google search it shows a interesting list of comments.

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