Fluoride - Help Needed in Queensland Now!

AFIN BULLETIN # 36
December 7, 2003

Dear All,

AMA QUEENSLAND'S UNSCIENTIFIC STAND IN SUPPORTING FLUORIDATION EMBARRASSES ONE OF ITS OWN MEMBERS.

AMA [Q'ld] has thrown its weight behind a drive to see all of Queensland's municipal water supplies fluoridated, helped by Kirsten MacGregor of ABC Radio 612 who gave brief coverage on her program two days ago which was seemingly supportive of fluoridation.

One AMA [Q'ld] member was embarrassed by his own medical organization's unscientific stand in supporting a renewed drive to fluoridate; especially in view of the previously-conducted Brisbane Task Force which found fluoridation was not in the people's best interests.

This AMA member is persuaded by the research that fluoridation is mass medication, ethically unacceptable [hence essentially unnecessary] and endangers the cosmetic and long-term health of all who consume it.

To help counter this fluoridation initiative and the anecdotal approach so often used [and used then] by talkback radio, this AMA member used a more scholarly approach when he contacted Kirsten: he emailed a copy of Paul Connett's "50 Reasons to oppose fluoridation".

Please consider writing to Kirsten MacGregor care of radio.612@abc.nt.au to acquaint her with some of the realities about fluoridation. Carbon-copying to her station manager might also prove fruitful in the long term.

Don't forget FAN's www.fluoridealert.org web site for masses of valuable resource information as well as www.slweb.org/bibliography.html for abstracts from peer-reviewed and published fluoride studies.

Ailsa Boyden
Australian Fluoridation Information Network (AFIN)