{"id":2429840,"date":"2019-01-17T18:48:00","date_gmt":"2019-01-18T01:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/news\/mounting-evidence-against-fluoridation\/"},"modified":"2019-01-17T18:48:00","modified_gmt":"2019-01-18T01:48:00","slug":"mounting-evidence-against-fluoridation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/local-news\/mounting-evidence-against-fluoridation\/","title":{"rendered":"Mounting evidence against fluoridation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"STND-STND Letter HeadLarge\">Mounting evidence against fluoridation<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Aspen is an amazing place.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">We have Nobel laureates present here. World-class athletes compete here. The best musicians perform here. World leaders participate in think tanks here.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Yet, with all of the enlightenment that the citizens are exposed to, the residents and leaders of Aspen choose to put a neurotoxin in our drinking water.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">The Children&#8217;s Health Defense Fund recently published an article condemning artificial water fluoridation as <a id=\"N0x1703030N0x1686610:N0x1703030N0x175ec78\" href=\"https:\/\/childrenshealthdefense.org\/news\/u-s-water-fluoridation-a-forced-experiment-that-needs-to-end\/\">&#8220;A Forced Experiment That Needs to End.&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Hundreds of dentists have signed a professional statement which calls for an end to fluoridation. Indeed, more dentists are questioning the practice. They realize that fluoride is a toxin that most people don&#8217;t need. There are safer alternatives.<\/p>\n<div id=\"single-mid-script\" class=\"p402_hide\">\n<h2>Recommended Stories For You<\/h2>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">A leading neuroscientist, Dr. David Bellinger, published a review &#8220;Environmental chemical exposures and neurodevelopmental impairments in children.&#8221; In his review he reaffirms the damage of fluoride to the nervous system and the impact it has to lower the IQ of children.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Leading neuroscientists are recognizing that doses of fluoride have the potential to lower the IQ in children. Government authorities and others ignore the most recent research.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Other health conditions \u2014 such as thyroid conditions, cancers and arthritis \u2014 are being linked to fluoride. More research is associating other metabolic diseases to environmental toxins.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">There is nothing ethical or legitimate about adding a neurotoxin to public drinking water.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">How much longer can such an enlightened town and its citizens consent and continue this hazardous practice?<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">In health \u2026<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND Letter Name\">Tom Lankering<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND Letter Title\">Basalt<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/opinion\/letters-to-the-editor\/mounting-evidence-against-fluoridation\/\" target=\"_blank\">via:: The Aspen Times<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mounting evidence against fluoridation Aspen is an amazing place. We have Nobel laureates present here. World-class athletes compete here. The best musicians perform here. World leaders participate in think tanks here. Yet, with all of the enlightenment that the citizens are exposed to, the residents and leaders of Aspen choose to put a neurotoxin in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2429840","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-20 02:29:00","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSPN The Valley&#039;s Quality Rock","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2429840","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2429840"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2429840\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2429840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2429840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2429840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}