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Sent: Monday, March 10, 2003 1:14 PM
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Subject: EPA DOCUMENT -MORE CONCERN Re FL-SUBSTANCES--A SMOKING GUN- NEWS ARTICLE 
Monday, March 10, 2003
A SMOKING GUN ON THE FLUORIDE ISSUE

MARCH 10. Here it is, a letter written by the EPA, to Dartmouth College researcher Roger Masters.

The date is November 16, 2000. The author of the latter is Robert C Thurnau, chief of the EPA Treatment Technology Evaluation Branch, Water Supply and Water Resources Division.

As you will see, this EPA communication testifies to the complete lack of scientific control over the key substances called fluorides, and particularly those varieties which, overwhelmingly, are the ones used in municipal water supplies all across America.

When I say lack of scientific control, I'm not talking about testing for amounts, I'm talking about a lack of any rational basis for using fluorides in the first place.

These are the key statements in the letter:

"To answer your first question on whether we have in our possession empirical scientific data on the effects of fluosilicic acid or sodium silicofluroide on health and behavior, our answer is no."

"We have contacted our colleagues at NHEERL [National Health and Environmental Effects Research Lab] and they report that with the exception of some acute toxicity data, they were unable to find any information on the effects of silicofluorides on health and behavior."

It's as disastrously simple as that. The federal agency that assumes responsibility for the safety of the US water supply has no information about the safety of fluorides.

One is tempted to think, "But they must know...they must have research...they must have done studies...they must feel comfortable...."

Forget those fantasies.

And if you're thinking that the EPA hasn't bothered to do research because it assumes, like everyone else, that these "harmless"? substances need no scrutiny, then you don't know what safety studies are all about. You don't know that "what everybody thinks" is not part of the scientific method. You don't know about the load of negative evidence that reveals the toxicity of fluorides. You don't know that years of careful PR were spent to convince the American public that only "right-wing nuts" were against fluorides.

But, working from this one EPA letter alone, you can infer that all the cities and towns in the US that dump fluorides into their water supplies are proceeding with no safety net, are inflicting a compulsory medical treatment on millions and millions of people.

This is, at bottom, a RICO crime in progress.

JON RAPPOPORT  www.nomorefakenews.com

IMPORTANT NOTE: The above-referenced EPA document is attached below.  Last week, on March 6 , 2003, Santa Monicans for Safe Drinking Watersent a letter, including the EPA document, to the SM City Council and its key officials and advisors.  Disregarding an urgent advisory by its Environmental Task Force to postpone fluoridation plans, the City continues to  move ahead without pause.SMSDW, since its formation in the summer of 2002, also has made continuous efforts and has presented to the City numerous respected science-based documents.  Urging a delay of the f-plans until diligent scrutiny is engaged, SMSDW has targeted, in particular, the investigation of the fluoridation substance, hydrofluosilicic acid, (HFSA).  SMSDW's letter to the City (below) was simultaneously mailed to most local and other press media.  So far, only stratiawire.com, a national news wire service,  has reported on this -- and as can be seen from that article, with mutual alarm.

On March 6, 2003, at 3:19 PM, Gene Burke, for SMSDW, wrote:
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Sent: Thursday, March 06, 2003 3:19 PM
To: {SM Environmental Task Force}
Cc: {SM City Council;  SM Water chief, City Manager, City Attorney, & others}
Subject: DOCUMENT--EPA HAS NO STUDIES ON HEALTH EFFECTS FROM H-ACID--Nov 16 2000
FROM:    http://www.fluoridealert.org/EPA-Masters.jpg
SENT BY: Gene Burke, Director, Santa Monicans for Safe Drinking Water
e-mail: burkegene@msn.com
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