Apparently someone does. I've tried open secrets to try and find the source of funding for healthy kids portland but they have nothing on the group.
What we do know is they are using outdated studies showing an increase in dental carries in children.
Dental health statistics have been key for the pro-fluoride campaign, and any change for the worse could have bolstered their arguments. For instance, the website run by Healthy Kids, Healthy Portland highlights a 49 percent increase of untreated dental decay among children between 2002 and 2007.But new 2012 statistics show that increase has been fully wiped away and the percentage of kids with untreated decay is now below 2002 levels.
But instead of properly funding dental care, in the last two months three Kossacks in Portland alone have had serious health issues due to the inability to find affordable care, they choose to radically alter our pristine derived water. My daughter doesn't like the tap water here because it tastes like bottled. She grew up drinking Arizona water so I'm surprised she doesn't glow in the dark. This water is used to make innumerable craft beers and to roast the coffee beans that make Portland their point of disembarkation
The city council tried to ram through the measure but the still alert citizens here petitioned to stop it.
There is no community with fluoridation that has significantly reduced cavities via fluoridation. The proponents attempted to show that Seattle had a forty percent reduction as compared to all of Oregon. But opponents quickly saw through the statistical deception of comparing an urban center to and entire state. The difference, the availability of dentists.
Every move made by the pro fluoride group has the greasy fingerprints of ALEC level deception. So I'm asking some of our more adept Kossacks to help me find who is paying for this effort.
Why do I think there is a Darth like force behind this effort? Situations like this:
The emails don't show any effort to delay the report, but do call into question whether fluoride proponents received advance and unfair access to information contradicting the "growing dental health crisis" campaign tied to Tuesday's election.
In contrast, Oregon Health Authority officials never met with fluoride opponents and didn't publicly release a draft version of the report until late April after receiving an open records request from the newspaper.
This is a serious issue not only for the public that apparently has not learned that fluoride is only effective for dental use when applied directly to the teeth. And it is vitally important for the numerous burgeoning artisan brewers and bakers of this city who have put a severe dent into Big Ag's profits by providing an alternative.
FLUORIDATION CHEMICALS THREATEN CLEAN WATER
Fluoridation would mean adding 1.1 millions pounds a year of fluorosilicic acid, an unpurified industrial byproduct of fertilizer production to some of the world’s best water.
THE FLUORIDATION WATER RATE INCREASE
Water fluoridation would mean another Portland Water Bureau rate increase to pay for up to a $7.6 million fluoridation plant and over $500,000 a year in fluoridation chemicals and plant operations. But just how much would this new Water Bureau program actually cost Portland ratepayers? That’s a good question since the proposed fluoridation measure doesn’t include any limit on the maximum rate increase saying only that “[f]unds necessary for fluoridation shall be paid for through water user fees.”
RECENT SCIENCE SHOWS HEALTH RISKS
Major scientific studies from the National Academy of Sciences and others have reported serious uncertainties and risks from fluoride in drinking water, including decreased childhood IQ and thyroid disorders. Recent science has also led to warnings against regularly mixing infant formula with fluoridated water to avoid excessive exposure for infants.
So let's pull back the curtain, shall we?
H/T to Sara R:
This widespread support, backers say, shows just how important fluoridation is to the constituents of these groups.
And the support flows the other way, too: in the form of big cash paid to groups who have endorsed the pro-fluoride campaign, Healthy Kids, Healthy Portland.
As first reported at wweek.com, Healthy Kids, Healthy Portland has doled out at least $143,000—about a third of what it has spent so far—to seven organizations that favor the May 21 referendum to fluoridate the city’s drinking water, Measure 26-151.
The move is highly unorthodox for a political campaign: Typically, groups that endorse a measure contribute money, not receive it.
Oregon’s free-wheeling campaign-finance laws place virtually no limits on how campaigns spend their money. But the state’s undue-influence law prohibits campaigns from paying individuals or organizations in exchange for their political support
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