Fluoride, Thyroid Hormones, Hip Fractures, Osteosarcoma

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I guess I want to point out the fact that I'm the national director for Citizens for Safe Drinking Water. A lot of people make the assumption that some of our success is because we've been successful at teaching people about the adverse effects of fluoride, when in fact almost all of our successes have come because we've tapped into what hopefully each of you have here, which is a recognition of the preciousness of water. And so much of our success throughout the communities has been once we've learned how bad fluoride is and we've become motivated for it. It's actually been to make certain that we reestablish the passion that people have for the healing properties of water. And so I want to plot a lot of the people who unfortunately can't keep naming because they go for more than 50 or 60 years, a people who prepared the way for us to be successful. Clint Miller, who's going to speak a little bit later. Lorraine Rosenthal has been a perpetual supporter of our situation, Paul Baratta, that you saw earlier. And I would venture to say that the majority of the speakers that you will have seen here in the previous two days and today will tell you that they already are knowledgeable about the adverse effects of fluoride and that unfortunately, the general public is still usually viewed fluoride in only one manner. And so I want to accentuate the fact that my interest in this particular issue is about safe drinking water. There are a lot of issues that I would still not necessarily want people to have to take aspartame, and at least we're doing that by choice. Most of the things that are happening with our public drinking water means that it's actually showing up at your tap. It means that you're already paying for it. It means in some ways you have to avoid exposures not only in your own home, but in virtually every other area that you eat or drink if you're going into what we would think is the general public. Today, part of what my intention to do is to speak to you about the toxic effects on thyroid hormones, hip fractures and osteosarcoma. And one of the reasons for these particular subjects coming up is because just recently the National Research Council and I need to stress the fact that there's so many acronyms that it's hard when I say NRC. And by the time you talk about any S and all the rest of these, you know, everybody's eyes kind of flutter when we start talking about it. But the National Research Council council was