UPDATE: 3,072 Signers to Professionals' Statement as of September 1, 2010
Signers include:
• Arvid
Carlsson, Nobel Laureate for Physiology
or Medicine, 2000
• Vyvyan Howard, MD, PhD, Immediate Past President, International Society of
Doctors for the Environment (ISDE)
• Ingrid Eckerman, MD, MPH, President, Swedish Doctors for the Environment (LFM), Stockholm, Sweden
• Raul Montenegro, PhD, Right Livelihood Award 2004 (known as the Alternative Nobel Prize), President of FUNAM, Professor of Evolutionary Biology, National University of Cordoba, Argentina
• The current President and six past Presidents
of the International
Academy of Oral Medicine and Toxicology • Three scientists from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Headquarters Union in Washington D.C.
* William Marcus, PhD, Former chief toxicologist of the EPA
Water Division, Boyds, MD
• Three members of the National Research Council committee who wrote the landmark 2006 report: Fluoride in Drinking Water: A Scientific Review of EPA's Standards (Hardy Limeback, PhD, DDS; Robert L. Isaacson, PhD; Kathleen M. Thiessen, PhD)
• The Board of Directors, American
Academy of Environmental Medicine
• Two advisory board members of the UK government
sponsored “York Review”
• Andy Harris, MD, former national president, Physicians for Social Responsibility, Salem, OR
• Theo Colborn, PhD, co-author, Our
Stolen Future
• Lynn Margulis, PhD, a recipient
of the National Medal of Science
• Ken Cook and Richard Wiles, President
and Executive Director, Environmental
Working Group (EWG)
• Ron Cummins, Director, Organic
Consumers Association
• Magda Aelvoet, MD, Former Minister of Public Health, Leuven, BELGIUM
• Doug Everingham, former Federal Health
Minister (1972-75), Australia
• Peter Montague, PhD, Director of Environmental
Health Foundation
• Ted Schettler, MD, Science Director, Science
and Environmental Health Network
• Stephen Lester, Science Director, Center
for Health, Environment, and Justice
• Lois Gibbs, Executive Director, Center
for Health, Environment, and Justice, Goldman Prize Winner (1990), Falls Church, VA
• Rosalie Bertell, PhD, Regent of the Board, International Physicians for Humanitarian Medicine, Geneva, Switzerland, Retired President, International Institute of Concern for Public Health, Toronto, Canada
• FIVE Goldman Prize winners (2006, 2003, 1997, 1995, 1990)
• Sam Epstein, MD, author, “Politics
of Cancer” and Chairman, Cancer
Prevention Coalition
• Pat Costner, retired Senior Scientist,
Greenpeace International
• Jay Feldman, Executive Director, Beyond
Pesticides
• Sandra Duffy, Board President, Consumers
for Dental Choice
• Joseph Mercola, Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine, http://www.mercola.com, Chicago, IL
• Michael W. Fox, DSc, PhD, BVM, MRCVS (former vice president of The Humane Society of the US, former vice president of Humane Society International and the author of more than 40 adult and children’s books on animal care, animal behavior and bioethics), http://www.twobitdog.com/DrFox/, Minneapolis, MN
• Leo Cashman, Executive Director of DAMS
(Dental Amalgam Mercury Syndrome)
• Chris Bryson, author, The
Fluoride Deception
•
Environmental leaders from over 30 countries,
and
• Legendary folksinger, songwriter and activist,
Pete Seeger
Signers by-degree as of September 1, 2010:
• 491 Nurses (RN, MSN, BSN, ARNP, APRN, LNC, RGON • 440 DC's (Doctor of Chiropractic, includes M Chiro)
• 410 PhD's - includes DSc, Doctor of Science; EdD (Doctor of Education); DrPH (Doctor of Public Health)
• 342 MD's (includes MBBS)
•
280 Dentists (DDS, DMD, BDS)
• 136 ND's (Doctor of Naturopathic Medicine)
• 74 Lawyers (JD, LLB, Avvocato)
• 67 RDHs (Registered Dental Hygienist); also DH, RDHAP, EFDA, RDAEF, and RDN
• 65 Pharmacists (Pharm.D, B. Pharm, DPh, RPH)
• 47 Acupuncturists (LAc - Licensed Acupuncturist, and, MAc -Master Acupuncturist)
• 30 DO's (Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine)
• 20 Veterinarians (DMV, VMD, BVMS)
An historic
moment in the battle against water fluoridation
AUGUST 2007: It took about forty days for a dedicated team
working with the Fluoride Action Network (FAN)
in several countries and across North America
to achieve an historic moment in the battle against
water fluoridation.
On August 9, 2007, FAN released a Statement signed by over 600 professionals calling for an
end to fluoridation and a call to legislators
in fluoridating countries to hold hearings to
determine why, after the release of the landmark
National Research Council report in 2006, aggressive
promotion of fluoridation continues.
The over 1,000 signers represent a remarkable coming
together of those concerned about fluoride and
those concerned about mercury issues; doctors
practicing conventional medicine and those pursuing
alternative treatments and the public health and
the environmental health communities. All believe
that public health policy should be determined
honestly with full attention paid to sound science
and to ethical principles.
According to Dr. Paul Connett, the Executive
Director of FAN, “What we are seeing here
is the judgment of professionals across the world,
not trapped by a ‘fluoridation belief system,’
that the information on the health effects contained
in the National Research Council report of 2006,
together with a growing number of peer reviewed
studies showing that fluoridation has only weak
or no benefits, leads to one conclusion: the meager
benefits do not outweigh the serious risks and
fluoridation must be stopped.”
Connett adds, “Now our task is to get health
officials, regulators, and the media to exercise
due diligence in this matter and seriously examine
the information presented in the Professionals’
Statement. Fluoridation will only end in the US
when officials in the Oral Health Division of
the CDC are forced to defend, under oath, their
zealous promotion of this practice. They appear
to be oblivious to its ineffectiveness and the
dangers it poses to the American people –
and people in the handful of other fluoridated
countries.”
To this end, FAN has organized an ONLINE
ACTION PETITION to Congress allowing
citizens to add their support to the Professionals’
Statement and the call for new Congressional Hearings.
August 9, 2007, was an historic day for this movement
because it marks the day when those who promote
fluoridation can no longer claim that they represent
a single “authority” on this matter.
Over 1,000 professionals have seen through their
hollow rhetoric and are demanding an end to this
outdated practice. August 9, 2007 marked the beginning
of the end of fluoridation worldwide.
Connett concludes, "The Professionals’
Statement is the rock on which we will build the
rest of our campaign."
SIGN THE STATEMENT!
If you are a medical, science, or environmental professional, please take a moment and sign the statement.
