If you know any doctor who supports fluoridation, ask them to comment
on the following challenge.

And doctors who don't support fluoridation might like to read it...

--Joe Thornton

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No medical doctor can reconcile the practice of fluoridation with the
following fundamental principles of medicine:

* The Hippocratic oath -- "First, do no harm." Even the dentists
and public health doctors who promote fluoridation admit that it
causes dental fluorosis, which is tooth damage.

* The principle of informed consent -- the patient has the right to
refuse medication. In fluoridated areas, the public water supply has
been turned into a prescription drug, where no prescription is
required. See www.fluoridealert.org/med-consent.htm This also
relates to consumer choice and the whole idea of the nanny state.

* Modern pharmacology: "Water fluoridation goes against leading
principles of pharmacotherapy, which is progressing from a
stereotyped medication -- of the type 1 tablet 3 times a day -- to a
much more individualized therapy as regards both dosage and selection
of drugs. The addition of drugs to the drinking water means exactly
the opposite of an individualized therapy. Not only in that the dose
cannot be adapted to individual requirements. It is, in addition,
based on a completely irrelevant factor, namely consumption of
drinking water, which varies greatly between individuals and is,
moreover, very poorly surveyed." -- Dr. Arvid Carlsson,
Pharmacologist, Winner of Nobel Prize in Medicine (2000)
www.fluoridealert.org/fluoride-facts.new2.html

* Modern toxicology: "Nature appears to have evolved a mechanism of
minimizing the exposure of infants to fluoride. Human breast milk
only contains between 5 and 10 ppb fluoride... chloride, a closely
associated halogen ion that is essential for life, is present in
breast milk at 360,000 parts per billion. There must be an
evolutionary selection pressure operating for this selective
exclusion of an otherwise highly diffusible ion." -- Prof Vyvyan
Howard, infant and fetal pathologist, toxicologist, University of
Ulster, Coleraine, Northern Ireland www.fluoridealert.org/epa-
sf/appendix-d.pdf

* Modern endocrinology: "In summary, evidence of several types
indicates that fluoride affects normal endocrine function or
response; the effects of the fluoride-induced changes vary in degree
and kind in different individuals. Fluoride is therefore an endocrine
disruptor..." -- National Research Council (2006). Fluoride in
Drinking Water: A Scientific Review of EPA's Standards. National
Academies Press, Washington D.C. p223. It is clear that the "fluoride-
induced changes" described by the NRC occur at fluoride intake levels
that are common among people subjected to fluoridation.