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.