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The Queensland Agenda
Campbell Newman participated in The Queensland Agenda OurSay in January, where you asked the questions in the lead up to the Queensland election. His responses to the three most popular submissions can be found on our blog at blog.oursay.org.
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Will you promise to immediately halt Fluoridation if you form government in Queensland? Anna Bligh was demonstrably wrong when she stated "There is no evidence that any disease or illness or condition is more prevalent in Townsville, or Sydney or Melbourne than it is in any city without fluoride." http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t1SB1_0_L3Q Townsville Health Service District residents, Fluoridated for over 40 years, are admitted at a higher rate than people from other parts of Queensland for potentially avoidable conditions including asthma, congestive heart failure, convulsions and epilepsy, congestive obstructive pulmonary disease, dental conditions (***), ear, nose and throat conditions, and pyelonephritis. http://www.health.qld.gov.au/townsville/Documents/executive/e_csp_bgp3_demogr.pdf A number of these diseases are associated with and/or exacerbated by Fluoride, see www.fluoridealert.org In a community forum in 2005, you, as the then Brisbane Lord Mayor Mr Campbell Newman, said you would not support water fluoridation because a third of residents rejected mass medication. You also said "It's up to medical and dental professional associations to make the case. In 1997 they had the opportunity to make their case and the results show they were not able to do that." You have also stated you want to save taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars wasted on Labor schemes such as Fluoridation.
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AND FROM 1999 Absolutely abhorrent that this and other extensive evidence has been ignored by those poison pushers. Phyllis J. Mullenix, Ph.D. Research Associate, Dept. of Psychiatry Children's Hospital. Boston, MA This letter sent to School Health Advisory Committee By Ms. Mullenix on 17th June, 1999. Read FULL DOCUMENT: http://www.sonic.net/kryptox/medicine/mullenix2.htm JUNE 17, 1999 PHYLLIS J. MULLENIX NEUROTOXICOLOGIST
WORLD JOURNAL OF GASTROENTEROLOGY DNA DAMAGE, APOPTOSIS AND CELL CYCLE CHANGES INDUCED BY FLUORIDE IN RAT ORAL MUCOSAL CELL AND HEPATOCHTES Extract: Fluorosis is one of the diseases caused by biogeochemical factors. Fluorosis in human beings is mainly caused by drinking water, burning coal and drinking tea. China is one of the countries where fluorosis is most endemic. Fluoride intoxication causes damages to osseous tissue (teeth and bone) and soft tissues (liver, kidney, brain, mucosa etc.). http://www.wjgnet.com/1007-9327/12/1144.pdf
In response to Scott Peterson (below) - Scott, your question is based on the assumption that by adding fluoridation chemicals to water, dental decay rates will be reduced. If you do more research, you will soon discover that the evidence of benefit is very weak. Watch this YouTube video to learn more: 'Dr. Paul Connett, Mildura: 3. The evidence of benefit is very weak' http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-yq3zZXzU7M and then go to www.fluoridealert.org
Widespread heavy % 'fluoridation' Australia wide up to 50 years in some states - 'fluoridation' is not safe is not effective - no safety data exists whatsoever - as Australia faces a dental crises - as reported by Deborah Cole (Ceo of Dental Health Services Victoria) on Jan 8th 2012 - The population need ACCESS TO AFFORDABLE DENTAL CARE SERVICES not the fluorosilicic acid/silicofluoride poisoning ( aka water fluoridation) of our water supplies, the evidence of cumulative harm is so extensive and with Australia in dental crises also proves it is totally ineffective and there are more dental practices than ever but many of the population cannot afford the high cost of dental services. This problem is the same in the 'fluoridated' areas of USA. 'Water fluoridation schemes' must be banned immediately, permanently and irrevocably for the health and safety of our population and a burgeoning sickness (health) system that cannot cope.
'What the 'York Review' on the fluoridation of drinking water really found' A statement from the Centre for Reviews and Dissemination (CRD), University of York, 28 October 2003 – "We were unable to discover any reliable good-quality evidence in the fluoridation literature world-wide.... The evidence about reducing inequalities in dental health was of poor quality, contradictory and unreliable." http://www.york.ac.uk/inst/crd/fluoridnew.htm You may also like to read 'A Critique of the York Review - by Paul Connett, PhD' http://www.fluoridealert.org/c-york.htm
“The crucial message of this report is that the highest scientific authority in the US has determined that low levels of fluoride in drinking water may have serious adverse health effects." - Dr. Paul Connett. http://www.fluoridealert.org/health/epa/nrc/index.html
RE: The NHMRC (2007) report. AUSTRALIA. "This report is being cited around the fluoridating world as the final word on the "safety and effectiveness" of water fluoridation. However, as far as addressing health concerns, a careful reading of this report indicates that at best, it is a work of professional incompetence or, at worst, an example of scientific fraud, in which scientific information is manipulated to support a preordained conclusion." http://www.thenhf.com/article.php?id=1259
Small bunch of highly organised obssessive Lunatics taking oxygen away from other genuinely meaningful public issues
To Brendan Ross: Nice try, but typical and pathetic. The pro-fluoridation lobby are a bunch of criminals and spin doctors with no scientific or ethical credibility, and by remaining willfully ignorant – as you obviously are about this issue – you are only supporting them. Supporting the forced addition of industrial-grade hydrofluorosilicic acid & sodium silicofluoride to the public water supply, makes you the lunatic, not us. GET THE REAL FACTS ON FLUORIDE---> www.FluorideAlert.org
"Sweden rejected fluoridation in the 1970s and, in this excellent book ( ISBN: 9781603582872 ), these three scientists have confirmed the wisdom of that decision. Our children have not suffered greater tooth decay, as World Health Organization figures attest, and in turn our citizens have not borne the other hazards fluoride may cause." —Dr. Arvid Carlsson, MD, PhD. Nobel Laureate in Medicine or Physiology (2000) and Emeritus Professor of Pharmacology, University of Gothenburg.