From roswell@umbc.edu Thu Sep 28 17:17:07 2000 Received: from mxu1.u.washington.edu (mxu1.u.washington.edu [140.142.32.8]) by lists.u.washington.edu (8.9.3+UW00.05/8.9.3+UW99.09) with ESMTP id RAA43732 for ; Thu, 28 Sep 2000 17:17:06 -0700 Received: from research.umbc.edu (roswell@umbc7.umbc.edu [130.85.6.7]) by mxu1.u.washington.edu (8.9.3+UW00.02/8.9.3+UW99.09) with ESMTP id RAA20501 for ; Thu, 28 Sep 2000 17:17:05 -0700 Received: from localhost (roswell@localhost) by research.umbc.edu (8.9.0/8.9.3) with ESMTP id UAA3821449; Thu, 28 Sep 2000 20:17:03 -0400 (EDT) X-Authentication-Warning: umbc7.umbc.edu: roswell owned process doing -bs Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2000 20:17:02 -0400 From: Marjorie Roswell To: "'waphgis@u.washington.edu'" Subject: RE: info on fluoride In-Reply-To: <4B3822B43D03D311A6050000F68ABFE7AAEDD6@dshsbudland.dshs.wa.gov> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII > What does this have to do with this list! Once again, please stay on the > topic. I'd actually be quite interested in seeing (or creating, if I got the data) a map of communities by which ones flouridate their water. > This information is propaganda put out by people that do not > understand the physiology of fluoride metabolism (both ingestion of > naturally occurring fluoride or fluoride that is added to water supplies). I spent some time with Dr. Paul Connett (who's quoted in the article) and his amazing wife Ellen last year. He's a chemistry professor at St. Lawrence University, and she's the publisher of Waste Not, and has more government reports in her office than I've ever seen in my life. They are both very knowledgeable and credible. I've not met Dr Phyllis Mullenix, described by the article as "former head of toxicology at Forsyth Dental Center in Boston and now a critic of fluoridation." Those are pretty impressive credentials, though. I'm impressed also by http://www.fluoridealert.org/fluoride-facts.htm which I just now found, and which I see was put together by Professor Connett's adult son. There are no maps on that site, but a lot of the content is geographic by nature (i.e. focused on countries and communities). I _do_ think that flouride information is worth mapping and becoming familiar with. I've never had a particular interest in flouride by the way, except that any information such as this is innately intriguing. Read http://www.fluoridealert.org/fluoride-facts.htm if the Nexus site seems too much like propaganda for you. Your can't-help-but-be-interested-colleague, Margie _________________________________________________________ Marjorie Roswell, Spatial Analyst UMBC Center for Health Program Development and Management 1000 Hilltop Circle Fx: (410)455-6850 Baltimore, MD 21250 E: roswell@umbc.edu Ph: (410)455-6802 http://umbc.edu/~roswell/mipage.html _________________________________________________________ .