[PLUG-TALK] Another fluoride cite

Rich Shepard rshepard at appl-ecosys.com
Mon May 6 23:40:51 UTC 2013


On Mon, 6 May 2013, Keith Lofstrom wrote:

> "Fluoride in Drinking Water - A Scientific Review of EPA's Standards"

   EPA is not a scientific agency but a political one. I could tell you in
detail about their process for reducing the drinking water arsenic threshold
concentration from one that had raised no questions for 50 years until Al
Gore wanted an issue on which to run for president. It was rather pathetic
(to put it mildly) and some of their PhDs told us in public fora that they
didn't care about the science and experiences of cities such as Fallon, NV,
with natural As levels of 125 ppm and no differences in morbidity or
mortality than any other city of the same size. They cherry picked from
badly flawed "science" to justify their political decision.

   Many of the threshold concentrations of water chemistry constituents have
no published scientific support other than the original EPA Red Book which
was based on "best professional judgement" from the mid-Atlantic states and
applied to the entire country. Feh!

Rich

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