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THE FLUORIDE ACTION NETWORK FAN CAMPAIGN Bulletin #214: Chicago & The Summer of Our Discontent
April 20, 2005

Dear All,

Here are more details of what the American Dental Association (ADA) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) are planning this summer, with the aid of alot of our tax dollars (see below).  But be careful, even the symposium schedule will make you feel ill!

This is the same ADA which has been promoting mercury amalgams for over 150 years; the same ADA which has made life a misery for any dentist who opposes them on amalgams, but then refuses to protect them when they are taken to court over their toxic effects; the same ADA which cannot defend fluoridation in an open public debate; the same ADA which captured all the web addresses around our little effort to educate the people (try typing in www.fluoridealert.com www.fluoridealert.net and see what you get!) and the same ADA which told its members in a White Paper in 1979:

³Individual dentists must be convinced that they need not be familiar with scientific reports of laboratory and field investigations on fluoridation to be effective participants in the promotion program and that nonparticipation is overt neglect of professional responsibility.²

In short, this is the same ADA which is a disgrace to any true dental professional.

And this is the same CDC which told the world in October, 1999, that fluoridation is "One of the top 10 public health achievements of the Twentieth Century", and yet when they did so they were six years out of date on the health literature, and their primitive promotion of its efficacy would have made an undergraduate blush! (see www.fluoridealert.org/who-dmft.htm).
 
This is the same CDC which relies for claims of safety on the NRC(1993) review but refuses to wait until the NRC has completed its current review, before launching mandatory fluoridation efforts across the country. To say that these bureaucrats are failing to exercise due diligence when it comes to protecting the public health is the understatement of the new century!

All of this by way of saying we need to be in Chicago - as many of us as possible - to visibly, creatively, and politely -register our disgust with both of these organizations, and their continued efforts to deceive the American people and the rest of the world. This is our chance to get to the dual headwaters of the mighty stream of deception which has flowed through the American media and through our lives since 1945. This is the chance to look them straight in the eye and say, "this isn't 60 years to celebrate this is sixty years of shame!"

So please be creative and think of some way you can get to Chicago this summer. We will gather there on Tuesday July 12th  (details of location to be announced), so that we can be present with our very colorful signs at the opening of this event in Millennium Park at 10.00 am on Wednesday July 13th . We will follow this with a press conference and, if all goes well, with our own mini-symposium, to present the scientific truth on this matter.  Try, try to be there.

Meanwhile, please find any dentist or doctor you can to sign onto a statement that it is time to halt this unethical, unnecessary, inequitable, ineffective, unsafe, and unwise practice, which the key promoters cannot even defend in open public debate.

But above all be creative. Send us your imaginative ideas for slogans, teeshirts, posters, banners, leaflets...(maybe an ad in the local paper) you name it. We are up against big budgets, PR machinery, and powerful bullies, but at the end of the day, they are very boring people!  A little creativity could let some of the hot air out of their huge balloon.

Thanks to all who have responded so far with suggestions and offers of help. If you haven't contacted us yet please do so. We can't do this without your support.

Paul Connett

www.fluoridealert.org / www.fluorideACTION.net
paul@fluoridealert.org / pesticides@fluoridealert.org