As reported recently in the Jan. 5, 200 issue of The Evening Tribune (Hornell NY), the decision of the Dansville Board members to place the issue of fluoridating the water on their agenda and the feeling of Mayor Barry Haywood that "everything's been very positive disturbs me greatly.

The only way everything can be positive for using fluoride in our water is that no one is able to do effective researching on the issue of the toxic effects of fluoride on human health and think that comments from certain professions such as too many of our dentists, must stand as being scientifically correct.  I find it misleading that a dentist states that no reputable scientist of medical person believes that fluorine can be a cancer causing agent.  As a librarian with an engineering degree, I don't think any reputable scientist or medical person could support fluoridation of water unless they are supporting fluoridation mainly because their professions benefit financially from putting a known rat poison in our drinking water. And our medical professions do not benefit much from persons who have healthy bodies or teeth, but rather from the ill-health that can be caused or contributed to by such chemicals as the fluorine compounds.

Dr. Hans Nieper, in his book Revolution in Technology, Medicine and Society (MIT Verlag, English ed.,. 1985) p.282, states, "the administration of sodium fluoride in drinking water and probably to the same extent, in tablets (also for children) clearly increases the rate of cancer incidence.  On the average, based on repeatedly reexamined American and British studies, fluoridated water causes an increase of 15 percent in the incidence of cancer in general, throughout the population drinking the fluoridated water, while the frequency of cervical cancer, even among fluoridated water drinkers, remained unchanged.  This points to the conclusion that those immune systems impaired by sodium fluoride (lymph cell and steroid systems) have limited interaction with cervical cancer.  These investigations originated in the Canadian province of Ontario."

Dr. John Yiamouyiannis, in his book, Fluoride: The Aging Factor; How to Recognize and Avoid the Devastating Effect  of Fluoride (Health Action Press 1993) p.72, quotes Dean Burk, Chief Chemist Emeritus, U.S. National Cancer Institute, as saying "Everything causes cancer? Perhaps.  Conceivably even a single electron at the other side of the universe.  The real question is, how likely is any one particular cause?  In point of fact, fluoride causes more human cancer death, and causes it faster than any other chemical."   (emphasis added by Civitas)

Dr. John Colquhoun, former Principal Dental Officer of Auckland, New Zealand's largest city, wrote a paper entitled, "Why I changed my mind about water fluoridation,"  Fluoride 31 (2) 103-118 (1998) which is the journal of International Society for Fluoride Research, and can be found on the internet at:
http://www.fluoride-journal.com/98-31-2/31203.htm  In this article, he talks about the harm to teeth that fluoride causes, weakened bones and bone cancer.  He states that "it has now been found that the same rare bone cancer has increased dramatically in young human males--teenage boys aged 9 to 19--in fluoridated areas of American but not in non-fluoridated areas [59] The New Jersey Department of Health reported osteosarcoma rates were three to seven times higher in its fluoridated areas than in its non-fluoridated areas [60]".

Our national bureaucrats in our federal agencies such as the EPA support luoridation of our water supplies but the union local that represents all the toxicologists, chemists, biologists and other professionals at EPA headquarters in Washington DC, on July 2, 1997, voted "unanimously to co-sponsor California Safe Drinking Water (http://www.SaveTeeth.org) in San Diego, California.

I think that a decision by the politicians of Dansville to go ahead and vote in fluoridation of their water supply without submitting it to the people who will be most harmed by such a decision is most unfortunate and disrespectful of their citizens.   
                                                                     Paul T. Culley, Alfred, NY
Letter in the The Evening Tribune Jan. 12, 2000