Scientist Ziegelbecker to all MPs - Urgent
A scientist at the Environmental Research Center, Graz (Austria), until his retirement in 1990, Rudolf Ziegelbecker was also a member of the Scientific Council of the International Society for Research on Civilisation Diseases and Vital Substances.
Last Minute Open Letter to All Members of the British Parliament and to the British Government
Re: Water Fluoridation: Warning!
I am an independent scientist, working for more than 30 years on the field of fluoridation. Sciences have no frontiers and do not stop at frontiers. In many European states and cities the results of my research have influenced the stopping of water fluoridation and other fluoridation methods. In the following years the dental caries decreased and did not increase as dentists prophesied.
Before a political decision about water fluoridation comes on the way, a comprehensive and open substantial discussion of the problem by the scientific community is needed also out of dentists' circles. I know the "Working group report 'Water fluoridation and health' of the Medical Research Council (MRC)". The conclusion of the MRC about "benefits" of water fluoridation is false. There is no valid scientific evidence for "benefits".
Dentists' "evidence" of "benefits" and "no risks" of water fluoridation is often a "political evidence" but not a scientific evidence. The discussion of "benefits" and risks circulated before and after introducing water fluoridation in USA and then also in other states in dentists and public health official circles outside of the scientific community.
"Benefits" of water fluoridation were constructed by dentists: The "benefits" were the result of other factors such as insufficient and inadmissible comparisons, different trends in the development of dental caries, differences in nutrition, permanent tooth eruption delayed by fluoride, changing experimental conditions during the experiments, inadequate models, bad design of experiments and statistical artifacts, false premises and false conclusions in the experiments, as well as other reasons. The results were influenced by confounding factors (see my letters: US Congress Records 99-316 O 1977, 275).
Dental and medical organisations such as the British Fluoridation Society (BFS), the British Dental Association (BDA), the American Dental Association (ADA), the International Dental Federation (FDI) and many public health officials have ignored the scientific critique and have censored publications which criticised water fluoridation and other methods of fluoridation especially since 1971. The FDI in-formed the Director-General of WHO in his report "Fluoridation and Dental Health" (A22/P&B/7, 29 May 1969) falsely about "benefits" prepared by the FDI. Public Health Delegates (instructed by dentists' "fluoride experts") of several coun-tries (ie A, BR, CDN, NL, NZ, Puerto Rico, CH, CSR, SF (FIN), J, IRL UK, USA, USSR) reported "benefits" of fluoridation which do not exist.
Thus the dissemination of the critique on water fluoridation was impeded, and public and political opinion was manipulated.
Rudolf Ziegelbecker, eng
Peterstalstrasse 29, A-8042 Graz
Tel/Fax: +43 316 471128
e-mail: [email protected]Graz, 7. September 2003
ALSO SEE his letter to Hazel Blears, December 2002: www.npwa.freeserve.co.uk/zieg_blears.html