A LONG OVERDUE FLUORIDE APOLOGY
DR. HARDY LIMEBACK'S APOLOGY

This prominent researcher apologizes for pushing fluoride.

... by Barry Forbes The Tribune, Mesa, AZ Sunday, December 5, 1999"Reproduced With Permission"

"Why'd you do it, Doc? Why'd you toss the fluoride folks overboard?"

I had just tracked down Dr. Hardy Limeback, B.Sc., Ph.D in Biochemistry,D.D.S., head of the Department of Preventive Dentistry for the University of Toronto, and president of the Canadian Association for Dental Research. (Whew.)

Dr. Limeback is Canada's leading fluoride authority and, until recently,the country's primary promoter of the controversial additive.
In a surprising newsmaker interview this past April, Dr. Limeback announced a dramatic change of heart. "Children under three should
never use fluoridated toothpaste," he counseled. "Or drink fluoridated water. And baby formula must never be made up using Toronto tap water.  Never."...

Your well-intentioned dentist is simply following 50 years of misinformation from public health and the dental association. Me, too.
Unfortunately, we were wrong."

Last week, Dr. Hardy Limeback addressed his faculty and students at the University of Toronto, Department of Dentistry. In a poignant, memorable meeting, he apologized to those gathered before him.

"Speaking as the head of preventive dentistry, I told them that I had
unintentionally mislead my colleagues and my students. For the past 15
years, I had refused to study the toxicology information that is readily
available to anyone. Poisoning our children was the furthest thing from
my mind."

"The truth," he confessed to me, "was a bitter pill to swallow. But
swallow it I did.

To read the whole article, go to:
http://seasilver.threadnet.com/newsletter/jul-aug-2000.htm

FLUORIDE: RISKS AND BENEFITS?

Disinformation in the service of big industry.

by David R. Hill, P.Eng. hill@cpsc.ucalgary.ca
Professor Emeritus, The University of Calgary, CALGARY, Alberta, Canada T2N 1N4

http://www.fluoridation.com/calgaryh.htm
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