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deBriefings [Editor's Note: This article refers to research studies involv- ing animals. We wish to advise readers that we at NEXUS do not condone or support the validity, efficacy or morality of animal experimentation or vivisection.] [Editor's Note: This article refers to research studies involv- _ ciation was found between thyroid cancer and fluoridated water ing animals. We wish to advise readers that we at NEXUS do supplies in a study conducted in Britain. Schuld then asked not condone or support the validity, efficacy or morality of | Woodruff to read from the actual data of the study. It showed an animal experimentation or vivisection.] increase of 18 per cent in observed thyroid cancers in the fluori- dated areas when compared to non-fluoridated areas. "No associ- THE GREATEST "SCIENTIFIC" FLUORIDE FRAUD YET? ation?" Schuld asked, and then proceeded to read from newspaper from Health Action Network Society, Canada articles from China, where entire villages are being relocated due n Thursday 12 October, six days after almost every major _ to fluoride contamination and where fluoride is being openly Or newspaper announced the results of a scientific acknowledged as the cause of thyroid cancer, Kaschin-Beck dis- review reporting fluoridation of public water supplies to ease and iodine deficiency. be a safe public health measure ( British Medical Journal Next, Schuld presented a paper which had investigated whether 2000;321:855-859, 7 October; www.bmj.com), shocking evi- fluoridation had a protective effect on slipped epiphysis, one of dence was presented during an interview aired on Vancouver the most common hip disorders observed in older children and radio station CKST AM 1040. The review, adolescents. Schuld said that this paper was undertaken by the UK National Health especially close to his heart, as the condition Service's Centre for Reviews and has been strongly linked to hypothyroidism Dissemination at the University of York, is since the 1920s. Schuld added that this was considered to be the "final word on fluorida- . acknowledged by the study authors them- tion", but it might well turn out be the greatest ... evidence selves, who had provided more than 16 refer- scientific fraud ever undertaken by a centre in ences in the paper's first paragraph. The charge of evaluating scientific information in was presented York team, which had been informed of fluo- the interests of public health. showing that the ride's effects on thyroid hormones, should In an interview with Andreas Schuld, head . ag have woken up here, Schuld said. of a global organisation of parents of children York Review falsified Schuld then read excerpts from the York poisoned by excessive fluoride intake, evi- vital information Report which had found "the direction of dence was presented showing that the York in its Re ort association to be positive (a protective effect) Review falsified vital information in its p in girls and negative (increased risk) in boys", Report and deliberately misinformed the and deliberately ut that neither of these was statistically ublic on fluoride's adverse healt at significant. Schuld again asked effects, The interview was conducted by misinformed Woodruff to look at the actual data in the Croft Woodruff, host of one of Canada's the public on aper. Woodruff saw an 18 per cent longest-running health radio talk shows, re increase of the disease in males in past president of the Canadian Healt! fluoride s adverse fluoridated areas. "Would you consider Food Association and founding member of the 25,000-member Canadian Healt! Action Network Society (HANS). Schuld arrived for the interview with the York Report and numerous studies which had supposedly been reviewed in depth by the esteemed centre. He Schuld then read further excerpts briefly recounted how the York Centre from the paper in question, citing how had changed the wording in the study protocol to avoid inclusion the authors of the study had found that more cases had come from of specific information on fluoride and thyroid effects as well as rural areas and that "in general, the rural areas had higher fluoride an 18 per cent increase here significant?" Schuld asked Woodruff, who at this time joined Schuld in declaring the Review a total scientific fraud and called it an example of severe and gross scientific misconduct. health effects. data concerning the high amounts of fluoride in tea—an issue 0: levels than suburban or urban regions". "In other words, the high- obvious concern for the people in the UK. er the fluoride levels, the more slipped epiphysis," said Schuld. Schuld's group had supplied the York team with evidence "Another obvious sign showing the anti-thyroid activity of fluo- showing that symptoms described in the literature on fluoride's ride." adverse health effects were identical to those observed in thyroi Schuld ridiculed the York claim that fluoridation showed pro- dysfunction, and that the condition known as "dental fluorosis"— _tective effects in girls. "It is known that the disease almost never now proclaimed by the York Review to be merely an issue of occurs in girls once menses has begun," exclaimed Schuld. "aesthetic concern"—was actually to be seen as a direct result of Schuld emphasised the issue of delayed eruption of teeth, fluoride-induced iodine deficiency during the time of enamel for- explaining how it has been established since the 1930s that thy- mation. The field of dentistry claims that the biochemical factors roid hormones control tooth eruption. He then read from the York leading to the enamel defects observed in dental fluorosis are stil! Report: "It has been suggested that fluoridation may delay the unknown. eruption of teeth, and thus caries incidence could be delayed as Schuld then cited specific examples of how the York Review teeth would be exposed to decay for a shorter period of time. had falsified results. Only one study compared the number of erupted teeth per child. First on the agenda was the issue of thyroid cancer. Schul The difference was very small and in opposite directions in the read an excerpt from the York Report which claims that no asso- two age-groups examined.” .. evidence was presented showing that the York Review falsified in its Report and deliberately misinformed the public on fluoride's adverse 14 = NEXUS vital information health effects. DECEMBER 2000 — JANUARY 2001