The following are excerpts from the American Dental Association's 1979 Fluoridation "White Paper" concerning strategy for implementing and protecting water fluoridation - something that's still happening today. (Provided by Maureen Jones to the Fluoride Action Network) Legislators may believe government bureaucrats are acting independently but it's clear that the ADA is behind fluoridation schemes at every level of government.
Excerpts begin here: (My comments are in red)
The development of a national
fluoridation promotion program will require constant two-way communication
among the primary parent agencies involved – – the American Dental Association,
the Public Health Service and State Health Departments – – so that each will be
informed of what is being done and needs to be done. Consequently, there
must be routine, internal communication arrangements within the agencies
themselves as well as between the agencies, i.e., to and from the National
Advisory Committee on Fluoridation (NACF), state dental societies, the Center
for Disease Control (CDC), the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the
National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS), the National Institute for Dental
Research (NIDR), state dental directors and other appropriate groups or
individuals. Meeting this need will be expedited by the appointment of a
knowledgeable coordinator to help each agency follow through on collecting and
circulating appropriate information and initiating action whenever
indicated. This interagency information activity will need to be
augmented by the establishment of a fluoridation information clearinghouse,
possibly with a toll-free telephone number that will serve as a centralized
source for information on all aspects of fluorides and fluoridation.
Freedom of information obtained documents reveals the ADA, a private dentists' union, is still conniving with government agencies to protect fluoridation. See:: http://fluoridedangers.blogspot.com/2014/09/govt-strategizes-with-private-groups-to.html
More about ADA's possible collusion with government officials is described here: http://fluoridealert.org/wp-content/uploads/stockin.fan-conference.sept2014.pdf
FOIA'd documents upon which the above powerpoint is based are here:http://www.nidellaw.com/fluoride-foia-revealing/
More about ADA's possible collusion with government officials is described here: http://fluoridealert.org/wp-content/uploads/stockin.fan-conference.sept2014.pdf
FOIA'd documents upon which the above powerpoint is based are here:http://www.nidellaw.com/fluoride-foia-revealing/
A
major purpose of the gathering of information should be the identification of
communities where the timing for political action is favorable as well as
unfavorable and where the opponents of fluoridation are considering the
initiation of referendums. Experience has shown that unsuccessful
campaigns consume extensive personnel effort, and are expensive and bring on
postponement of renewed positive action for at least five years.
Fluoridtionists created a Rapid Response Team to comment about online fluoridation media articles as evidenced by FOIA'd emails of Erin C. Knoerl Community Water Fluoridation Program Manager New York State Department of Health (dated 2015)
Fluoridtionists created a Rapid Response Team to comment about online fluoridation media articles as evidenced by FOIA'd emails of Erin C. Knoerl Community Water Fluoridation Program Manager New York State Department of Health (dated 2015)
Within
the ADA , provision has already been made for the addition of
a full-time professional person to the staff of the council on dental health
and health planning to coordinate the association’s fluoridation program
activities. Among his or her extensive responsibilities will be the
provision of assistance to dental societies and other organizations involved in
fluoridation campaigns, including personal consultation in the field;
recommendations for areas to be researched – – scientific and legal;
development and distribution of printed and audiovisual information materials
for distribution to the professional and the public; recommending appropriate
lobbying for essential funding and staffing by HEW for implementing the
administration’s expressed assurance of support for fluoridation; exploring
application of the techniques developed by the public education program (PEP)
of the American Dental Association for the training of spokesmen; establishment
of a clearinghouse of information on fluoridation, possibly with a toll-free
telephone number, and so on.
Jane McGinley occupies that job today and provides periodic fluoridation updates to interested parties (See: http://www.njapd.org/october-fluoridation-status-update-2016.pdf )
It may be that the office of theADA coordinator could best serve as the central
clearinghouse of information. For example, state dental societies and
state dental directors should alert each other to any developments within their
states to promote fluoridation of a community water supply or to discontinue a
program; to upcoming anniversaries of programs and studies showing results; to
any activity on the part of opponents of fluoridation (including newspaper
columnists), and so on. To monitor such developments, the constituent and
component dental societies should each have a fluoridation committee in order
to provide for automatic reporting from the community to the state level.
The office of the ADA coordinator should be advised immediately of any
development and it should circulate any significant information to the NACF and
the PHS. Those agencies, in turn, should keep the ADA office informed, particularly about any developments
in the legislative, political or scientific area. Reporting can be via
telephone or by the forwarding of newspaper clippings, copies of letters,
memos, bulletins, articles in dental journals, papers presented at meetings and
various other information materials. In other words, lengthy
correspondence or documents need not be prepared; the important factor is
promptness.
Jane McGinley occupies that job today and provides periodic fluoridation updates to interested parties (See: http://www.njapd.org/october-fluoridation-status-update-2016.pdf )
It may be that the office of the
A
communications network, as outlined, will also serve for the expeditious
transmission of information from the national to the local level.
Other available channels of
information that should be utilized are the columns of ADA publications. The editor should be requested to
increase fluoridation coverage in the ADA News and
the Journal of the American Dental Association.
Professional education: Development of the program must begin with
re-education and stimulation of the individual dentist both in the community
and in the dental school, whose active participation is essential to the
success of any fluoridation program. Individual 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.
Initiation of this part of the promotional effort should include the
preparation of a short fact sheet for wide distribution. Important among
the facts listed, for example, should be the assurance that professional
colleagues, qualified to review and assess the validity of scientific data have
and will continue to maintain information on safety, effectiveness and cost of
this preventive procedure for immediate response and distribution.
The
staff of the American Dental Association offers the greatest potential moving
force for education and stimulation of the practicing dentist on a continuing
basis. Through their routine communication with key dental leaders at the
state and local levels in connection with the conduct of their respective
programs and assignments – – correspondence, travel, planning of meetings and
conferences, participation in dental meetings, and so on – – ADA personnel are
in a unique position to promote fluoridation with little effort and at no
additional expense. Thus, a first step for the ADA coordinator should be
the arrangement of a meeting of ADA department heads to alert them to (1) the
renewed effort of the Association in concert with the Public Health Service and
other appropriate government agencies and public health officials to assist
communities in achieving fluoridation of their public water supplies and (2)
the need for their cooperation if the profession is to respond successfully to
one of the most exciting challenges of the century in the field of public
health: reversing the increasing triumph of falsehood over truth, of
hucksters over scientists and of dental disease over dental health. The
meeting should be carefully structured to present a moving summary of what has
happened, what needs to be done, why, and what is planned. The
circulation of a memo will not accomplish the objective of making the staff
concerned. Open, even emotion, discussion is needed.
The
meeting should be followed by a communiqué to the constituent and component
dental societies, allied and specialty groups and dental schools to alert them
to the critical need for a concerted promotion effort, outlining their
respective roles and seeking their support. Information copies should be
sent to the Deputy Surgeon General; Public Health Service; the Center for
Disease Control; the Environmental Protection Agency; the National Center for Health Statistics; the National Institute for
Dental Research; state dental directors and any other appropriate agencies and
individuals with a covering letter soliciting their cooperation and
recommendations. Copies of the foregoing, with an appropriate covering
letter soliciting their support in their respective areas, should be sent also
to the Association officers, trustees, council members and department
heads. Copies of all such mailings should be sent routinely to the
members of the National Advisory Committee on Fluoridation with the
understanding that they should review and comment.
The
ADA coordinator should also cooperate with the American
Association of Dental Schools in the development and provision of appropriate
background materials on fluoridation for continuing education courses. In
addition, the coordinator should encourage dental societies and study clubs to
include fluoridation in their programs and should furnish appropriate
background materials; should encourage dental schools to expand education of
dental students and auxiliaries regarding the metabolism and physiological
effects of fluorides and fluoridation; should seek the cooperation of the
council on national board examinations to include questions regarding the role
of fluorides and the benefits of fluoridation on national board examinations
and should stimulate interest in knowledge of fluoridation among physicians,
nurses and other health professionals and auxiliaries. The coordinator
should also explore the possibility of an awards program to provide funds for
student loans to dental schools that do the most to implement community
fluoridation programs each year.
Association support: With regard to support from the Association,
the 1977 House of Delegates reaffirmed its commitment to actively promote
fluoridation and directed the Council on Dental Health and Health Planning to
proceed with the development of an aggressive fluoridation promotion program
(Trans, 1977:904). A National Advisory Committee on Fluoridation has
already been appointed as proposed in the initiatives resulting from the 1977
Workshop on Fluoridation (Trans. 1977:319).
While
the federal government, at the highest levels, has expressed strong support for
community fluoridation, a recent action of the Environmental Protection Agency
is most disturbing. Its new regulations regarding standards for drinking
water classify all constituents that may affect health, including fluoride, as
contaminants. Since this word connotes danger, the EPA regulations will
probably be cited in future arguments against fluoridation. The PHS and
the ADA Washington office should cooperate in an effort to have the
language amended.
The entire lengthy fluoridation strategy "White Paper" can be read here: http://fluoridealert.org/content/1979-ada-white-paper/
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1 comment:
Myron Allukian, a Boston dentist who has made his career out of promoting fluoridation and who brags he authored the convoluted MA fluoridation law, has been to my community and neighboring communities several times. In a training for the BOH and dentists in 2015, he modeled the best response to anyone who brings up actual science. He pounded the table with his fist and angrily proclaiming that he shouldn't have to argue any piece of science any more than he should be forced to argue that the table is flat.
Shades of Galileo. He seems to think he is the pope. However, he is the VP of the American Fluoridation Society which is primarily a group of social media trolls organized by the ADA and its partners to overwhelm local newspapers with their cut-and-copy comments that denigrate local letter writers. A NC dentist in that group made something like 179 comments out of 217 on a Boston site. I counted. That particular troll thinks he is God.
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