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# Letter: Reader praises Daily Press coverage of fluoride dangers in drinking water
- URL: https://www.smdp.com/071107-story/
- Published: 2007-07-11T15:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-24T02:15:35.000Z
- Author: Guest Author
- Tags: Opinion, Santa Monica, #archive-import

*By Gene Burke Founder, Santa Monicans for Safe Drinking Water Coalition*

Your new Environment section, with the big headline: “Excessive use of fluoride could be a real danger” (July 2), was indeed, in my view, a graphic rare treat and needed icon-bruiser.

I hope many of your other grateful readers find time to look into that article’s cited good resources.

That article, along with Kevin Herrera’s earlier D.P. report: “Not all smiles for fluoride treatment” (Jan 19), are an excellent pair which, I hope, are copied/circulated widely by other readers, too. Some of the many fluoride-challenging letters (the Daily Press) published added even more off-radar good data and links.

The local communities, in my view, could be better served if more in city/county government could spend just one quiet hour pondering these mostly non-payrolled whistle-blows.

Therein could be the opportunity for illumination from such iconoclasts as Dr. Robert Carton, ex-EPA senior scientist (1992), whose mantra, now well known, became: “Fluoridation is the greatest case of scientific fraud of this century, if not of all time.”

*Originally published in the Santa Monica Daily Press print edition on July 11, 2007.* [Read the original PDF.](https://s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/smdp%5Fbackissues/071107.pdf?ref=smdp.com)