CANTON – A retired St. Lawrence University professor is being cited as Calgary, Alberta debates whether to remove fluoride from the municipal water supply. The Calgary Herald reports the city …
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CANTON – A retired St. Lawrence University professor is being cited as Calgary, Alberta debates whether to remove fluoride from the municipal water supply.
The Calgary Herald reports the city council is “contemplating removing fluoride from its municipal water supply, reigniting the decades-old debate among medical experts and opponents about the value of adding it to tap water.”
The article quotes Paul Connett, director of the Fluoride Action Network and professor emeritus of SLU: "If it was a good idea to put medicine in the drinking water, why is it in 65 years after start of fluoridation in North America we haven't used it for distribution of any other medication in the water supply."
Some say too much fluoride can cause damage to children's teeth and to their brain development and that it’s unethical to distribute a drug to the masses with no method of monitoring it, the article says.
"It's a bad practice from the word go. It just should be stopped worldwide," says Connett in the Herald article.