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It was May 31, 2000, that the Davis County Board of Health held an open forum on fluoridation. Both sides of the issue were represented. Presentations for the Davis County Board of Health were given by Beth Beck, Chairwoman, and Dr. Ariel Thompson, a dentist from Cache County. Following the forum, I asked Beth Beck to send me a copy of the reference documenting her statement that tooth decay in Utah children is 40% higher than the national average. On June 15th, I sent her a certified, return receipt letter (with copies sent to the Davis County Commissioners) asking her again for a copy of her reference. To make it easy for her, I even enclosed a self-addressed/stamped envelope. In my "Third Request" for the information - dated July 3, 2000 - I asked that her reference be sent no later than July 20, 2000, at which time "I will go public with her information - or lack thereof." To date, Beth Beck has yet to provide any documentation that states: Tooth decay in Utah children is 40% higher than the national average. August 16, 2000, at the Utah State Capitol, I asked Tony Tidwell, DDS (and member of the Salt Lake Valley Board of Health), for a copy of the very same documentation. To date, no information has been received. So far, all talk and nothing to document their words. If I had documentation that supported such a powerful statement, I would have it readily available for anyone who wanted it. -Rosemary Minervini UPDATE #1: In the September 2, 2000, Deseret News article, Beth Beck comments on why she has not responded to our request: "Beck says she has received the letters and admits she has chosen to ignore them. "I don't think I owe it to her, and any word I would say she would turn around. I would not want to correspond with her," Beck says. "She threatens to 'expose' me and all that stuff." Give me a break!!!!!!!!!!! Again, I stress this point -- if I had documentation that supported such a powerful statement, I would have it readily available for anyone who wanted it. Beck owes it to the public and because of Beck's choice to ignore our request, I doubt that there is any such documentation ... and even if there is, I doubt it's strong enough for them to support. I threaten to "expose" her and "all that stuff"??? I expose her for her lack of professionalism and commitment to the public for not providing any documentation to support what she is preaching! If Beck won't send me the documentation, then why in the world hasn't she sent it to the media -- will they "expose" her, too? Heaven help us all!!!! -Rosemary Minervini |
Getting documentation from the proponents is like pulling teeth! (Pardon the pun) |
It was May 31, 2000, that the Davis County Board of Health held an open forum on fluoridation. Both sides of the issue were represented. Presentations for the Davis County Board of Health were given by Beth Beck, Chairwoman, and Dr. Ariel Thompson, a dentist from Cache County. Following the forum, I asked Beth Beck to send me a copy of the reference documenting her statement that tooth decay in Utah children is 40% higher than the national average. On June 15th, I sent her a certified, return receipt letter (with copies sent to the Davis County Commissioners) asking her again for a copy of her reference. To make it easy for her, I even enclosed a self-addressed/stamped envelope. In my "Third Request" for the information - dated July 3, 2000 - I asked that her reference be sent no later than July 20, 2000, at which time "I will go public with her information - or lack thereof." To date, Beth Beck has yet to provide any documentation that states: Tooth decay in Utah children is 40% higher than the national average. August 16, 2000, at the Utah State Capitol, I asked Tony Tidwell, DDS (and member of the Salt Lake Valley Board of Health), for a copy of the very same documentation. To date, no information has been received. So far, all talk and nothing to document their words. If I had documentation that supported such a powerful statement, I would have it readily available for anyone who wanted it. -Rosemary Minervini UPDATE #1: In the September 2, 2000, Deseret News article, Beth Beck comments on why she has not responded to our request: "Beck says she has received the letters and admits she has chosen to ignore them. "I don't think I owe it to her, and any word I would say she would turn around. I would not want to correspond with her," Beck says. "She threatens to 'expose' me and all that stuff." Give me a break!!!!!!!!!!! Again, I stress this point -- if I had documentation that supported such a powerful statement, I would have it readily available for anyone who wanted it. Beck owes it to the public and because of Beck's choice to ignore our request, I doubt that there is any such documentation ... and even if there is, I doubt it's strong enough for them to support. I threaten to "expose" her and "all that stuff"??? I expose her for her lack of professionalism and commitment to the public for not providing any documentation to support what she is preaching! If Beck won't send me the documentation, then why in the world hasn't she sent it to the media -- will they "expose" her, too? Heaven help us all!!!! -Rosemary Minervini |
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"The argument is that a lot of the opponents' arguments are so asinine that they are completely without validity," Tidwell told [Salt Lake County] commissioners. Tony Tidwell, DDS Member, Salt Lake Valley Health Department Salt Lake Tribune - 8/31/00 |
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UPDATE #2: Ms. Beck mentioned her source of information to a newspaper reporter. She says that they used the Medicaid records of Utah children to obtain the information for her quote that "tooth decay in Utah children is 40% higher than the national average." Well, she's right about one thing... I do question her source of information!! Think about it.... Medicaid records of children in Utah... The Centers for Disease and Control and Prevention even reports that children from low income families have nutritional deficiencies which can easily place them at a higher risk for tooth decay. Also...has she [Beck] checked the records of non-Medicaid children? And who was the one that checked the Utah records? This information is not only misleading, but it has absolutely no credibility other than to make it sound like Utah's children are suffering sooooooo much more than the rest of the country. Just another pity-plea by the proponents! Sorry, Ms. Beck, but you'll have to do better than that!!! -Rosemary Minervini, RDH, MS Registered Dental Hygienist President, Citizens for Safe Drinking Water - Utah |
Ever wonder where the proponents get their quotes? Many are from Michael Easley: |
"A favorite tactic of the fluorophobics is to argue for a debate so that 'the people can decide who is right.' Proponents of fluoride are often trapped into consenting to public debates." "Debates give the illusion that a scientific controversy exists when no credible people support the fluorophobics' view." "Like parasites, opponents steal undeserved credibility just by sharing the stage with respected scientists who are there to defend fluoridation"; and, "Unfortunately, a most flagrant abuse of the public trust occasionally occurs when a physician or a dentist, for whatever personal reason, uses their professional standing in the community to argue against fluoridation, a clear violation of professional ethics, the principles of science and community standards of practice." |
...The man that Utah's fluoridation proponents admire. Many of his quotes have already been repeated by proponents in Utah. Read on and see if any of Easley's quotes sound familiar... |
UPDATE #3: As of July 27, 2001, no documentation has been received. |
UPDATE #4: As of March 13, 2002 no documentation has been received. |
Proponents hide behind endorsements and name calling rather than answer questions from the public. |
