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Bone Cancer-Fluoride Link
8-6-5
Hon. Stephen L. Johnson, Administrator
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
August 4, 2005
Dear Administrator Johnson:
We, the undersigned representatives of a majority (eleven) of EPA's employee unions, are requesting that you direct the Office of Water to issue an Advanced Notice of Proposed Rulemaking setting the maximum contaminant level goal for fluoride at zero, in accordance with Agency policy for all likely or known human carcinogens. Our request is based on the overall weight of the evidence supporting the classification of fluoride as a human carcinogen, including new information from Harvard on the link between fluoride in drinking water and osteosarcoma in boys that was conveyed to you in a meeting with union officials on May 4, 2005.
WHY EPA HEADQUARTERS UNION OF SCIENTISTS OPPOSES FLUORIDATION
The following documents why our union, formerly National Federation of Federal Employees Local 2050 and since April 1998 Chapter 280 of the National Treasury Employees Union, took the stand it did opposing fluoridation of drinking water supplies. Our union is comprised of and represents the approximately 1500 scientists, lawyers, engineers and other professional employees at EPA Headquarters here in Washington, D.C.
Originally posted by GoldenFleece
They even stated at the beginning that they tried to resolve their concerns internally without going public.
Not that EPA scientists would know more than whoever planted this indestructible belief about the benefits of fluoride, but did you actually read what they said about the brain and kidney-damaging effects that were discovered after receiving the 1 ppm "optimal" amount?
Have you ever known anyone who was so stubborn that the more information they received, the less they'd accept? Just curious...
Originally posted by TheComte
[I read what they said. It seems disturbing. But observation doesn't bear it out. Don't you think we'd see a lot of brain and kidney damage all over where there is fluoridation? Do we see that? No.
Originally posted by TheComte
Originally posted by GoldenFleece
Have you ever known anyone who was so stubborn that the more information they received, the less they'd accept? Just curious...
Yes. You are just as stubborn as I am, don't you think? I give you information too. What makes your information right and mine wrong?