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By Guy Page
A Vermont advocacy group is weighing in on a national debate over fluoride in drinking water.
The Vermont Environmental Justice Network is among more than 140 organizations supporting comments filed by the American Academy of Pediatric Dentistry opposing a proposed fluoride assessment by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
In its filing on the EPA’s Fluoride Preliminary Assessment Plan and Literature Survey, the dentists’ group raises these objections:
Mislabeling mild fluorosis: Says the EPA wrongly treats mild dental fluorosis — a cosmetic condition — as a toxic effect.
Reliance on disputed research: Argues the plan leans heavily on a 2024 National Toxicology Program report that failed peer review and includes non-U.S. exposure data.
Ignoring benefits: Criticizes EPA for excluding fluoride’s cavity-prevention benefits from its analysis.
Outdated methodology: Cites an incomplete literature review and lack of a transparent review protocol.
The academy is urging EPA to pause the process and seek an independent review, warning that weakening community water fluoridation could increase tooth decay, especially among low-income children.
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Categories: Health Care
There are ways of getting fluoride on your teeth that don’t involve drinking it.
Florine is poison as is well known. Are these protesters in the medical field? Another case of a small group pushing their agenda onto the masses. Fluoride hasn’t protected anything (could be a cause for cancer), if so show results. Over eating sweets like candy, cookies, cakes—sugary junk food. The group isn’t protesting what causes tooth decay. Bottled water from private sources is better, don’t drink tap water.
Let’s hope for all our sakes Trump doesn’t cure cancer!
But then, if you read what is going on with ivermectin and another very inexpensive drug…..they will deny that too.
Hey, maybe Trump could do us a solid and say cultural Marxism and socialism are the way Vermont should be running their government, then we’d have a cure for our demise.
Brass and stainless steel, back flow check valves, fail more often in fluoridated water systems than those with no fluoride. I found this out from an old classmate that changed these valves for the company he worked for in Maine.
I have been professionally and personally involved with the science of fluoride toxicity for 30 years. Those who think fluoride is a good thing for your health are either vastly ignorant or are lying or both. Pro-fluoride organizations stand to lose $$ with the loss of water fluoridation. There are many levels to the money trail, actually. That’s the bottom line. Also, as the truth continues to get out about how toxic it is, dentists and other health professionals and organizations and governments could be held liable for damages caused by fluoride. The pro-fluoride script about the “benefits” hasn’t changed one iota since the fraudulent start of water fluoridation, some 80 years ago. It’s medication without consent, if you consider it medication. It’s actually the bioaccumulative poisoning of humans and every living thing in the environment.
Fluoride is a scientifically well-documented bioaccumulative endocrine disruptor and enzyme inhibitor that can negatively affect every single system of the human body. The fluoride put in water for our health IS a toxic and very contaminated by-product of the phosphate fertilizer and aluminum industries.
There is no way for them (the EPA, the ADA, etc) to wiggle out of the truth. But they are still kicking and screaming and stalling to save their assets, rather than be honest about how toxic it really is. When you see articles that talk about all the supposed professional organizations that defend water fluoridation, that is called “an appeal to authority”. But take a look at those authorities that they cite. The ADA and the AAP and many of them are TRADE associations who defend the status quo. The EPA lost in a very lengthy lawsuit that argued largely about fluoride lowering IQ in children. Based on a lot of high quality science. They have been stalling about doing anything they should be doing since then, several years ago. This is what happens when industry runs the show, folks. And industry now runs our lives, in so many ways….
Is there anyone that really believes that these people are concerned with our health…
It’s all about the dollar…
Who was a participant in forcing this on vermonters and across america and the globe
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Deb, Can you point me to the “scientifically well-documented” studies that you refer to? I would like to read up on the issues. I am assuming these studies are peer reviewed?
Whenever I read articles like this and a Vermont advocacy group is mentioned like the Vermont Environmental Justice Network (who I have never heard of), I go looking for financials and backgrounds on them. Vermont Environmental Justice Network does not have any financials and is listed as a fiscally sponsored project by Community Resilience Organizations. Never heard of Community Resilience Organization? Me either. This is what their website says: “Community Resilience Organizations (CROs) emerged after Hurricane Irene in 2011. We’re a grassroots organizing hub and technical assistance provider committed to climate and racial justice. We are a fiscal sponsor; a connector of community care and resilience networks; and a convener of targeted coalition organizing that generates cultural change.” This is what it says about its two staff members: “Julissa Vesely (she/her) is a navigator of systems and connector of community to care and resources. In the past, Julissa has worked as a Community Health Worker with migrant individuals. She is currently completing her master’s in science in Community Development and Applied Economics. Julissa has co-directed CROs since 2025. ” and “Lena Greenberg (they/them) is a strategic communicator, systems thinker, and climate person. In the past, Lena has taught about water systems and plastics; campaigned against the fossil fuel industry; and grown and distributed vegetables. Lena has co-directed CROs since 2024.” See anything in their backgrounds that would make them experts in fluoride in drinking water?
In 2024 the Community Resilience Organizations financials state the following:
– Their chair is someone named Kenay Lazuli. Here is her bio: “Kenya is the Co-Founder of Radical Imagination, an organization dedicated to creating space for Black, Indigenous and all people of color to commune with one another and the land, including running an arts residency, hosting skillshares and workshops and feeding residents and visitors from her unruly garden. Kenya owned and operated an educational urban farm in Portland, Oregon and taught the basics of building soil health, caring for bees, ducks, and goats prior to moving back to her home in Vermont. Her current work is focused on the Every Town project with the primary goal of permanent land access and stewardship for BIPOC in Vermont.” See anything in her bio about expertise in fluoride in drinking water?
– In their 2023 financial statement they listed the following revenue, $441971 from government grants and $534905 in donations. When you look for the list of contributors the form says it is ” Restricted” So who are these contributors? We don’t know.
BTW, Charity Navigator list Community Resilience Organization charity’s score at just 65%, earning it a Two-Star rating.
Want to know why VT is so F up? We have over 6000 non profits in Vermont with questionable people running these organizations, with questionable contributors and with questionable expertise in the subject matter they are supposedly advocating on.
https://apps.irs.gov/pub/epostcard/cor/474647183_202312_990_2025012923044650.pdf