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<p style="margin-bottom: 0.5cm;"><font face="Arial, sans-serif">November
23, 2009</font></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0.5cm;"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font size="4"><b>People
for Safe Drinking Water</b></font><br><br>Final submissions to the Canadian
Drinking Water Secretariat (<a href="mailto:water_eau@hc-sc.gc.ca">water_eau@hc-sc.gc.ca</a>)
are due this Friday, November 27, 2009. Please consider submitting a
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><b>The
well-known requirements of science are not sufficiently fulfilled</b>
<b>in this document:</b></font></p>
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<ul><li><p><font face="Arial, sans-serif">omission of citations for
claims, (e.g., conflicting claims in the English and French
translations had no citation to verify which claim was correct);</font></p>
</li><li><p><font face="Arial, sans-serif">omissions of research which do
not support conclusions, including research by panel members
selected to do this review;</font></p>
</li><li><p><font face="Arial, sans-serif">a review panel was chosen with conflicts of interest, and who demonstrate a lack of expertise in artificial water
fluoridation;</font></p>
</li><li><p> <font face="Arial, sans-serif">misrepresentation the
National Research Council Review 2006;</font></p>
</li><li><p><font face="Arial, sans-serif">use of a double standard for
claims of benefits and claims of harm whereby poor quality science
demonstrating efficacy is accepted uncritically whereas claims of
harm are dismissed if the evidence is not of the highest quality.</font></p>
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<p><font face="Arial, sans-serif">Any of the following peer-reviewed responses to the CDW
secretariat are available for you to submit in whole or in part. <br></font></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font size="2">Carole Clinch </font></font>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font size="2">(a)
letter: <a style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);" href="http://fluoridealert.org/re/canada.report.letter.clinch.pdf">http://fluoridealert.org/re/canada.report.letter.clinch.pdf</a></font></font></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font size="2">(b)
response:
<a style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);" href="http://fluoridealert.org/re/canada.report.response.clinch.pdf">http://fluoridealert.org/re/canada.report.response.clinch.pdf</a></font></font><font face="Arial, sans-serif">
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font size="2">(c)
omissions:
<a style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);" href="http://fluoridealert.org/re/canada.report.omissions.clinch.pdf">http://fluoridealert.org/re/canada.report.omissions.clinch.pdf</a></font></font></p>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font size="2">Paul Connett </font></font>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font size="2"><span style="font-weight: normal;">response: </span></font></font><font size="2"><a href="http://fluoridealert.org/re/connett.canada.11-11.09.pdf" target="_blank"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-weight: normal;">http://fluoridealert.org/re/connett.canada.11-11.09.pdf</span></font></a></font></p>
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<blockquote><strong><font face="Arial, sans-serif">EMAIL to:</font></strong><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><br><br>•
CDW Secretariat <<a href="mailto:water_eau@hc-sc.gc.ca">water_eau@hc-sc.gc.ca</a>> </font><em><font face="Arial, sans-serif">[CDW
= Federal-Provincial-Territorial Committee on Drinking Water, authors
of report]<br></font></em><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><br>•
Satish Deshpande <<a href="mailto:Satish.deshpande@ontario.ca">Satish.deshpande@ontario.ca</a>> </font><em><font face="Arial, sans-serif">[Ontario
Ministry of Environment, Department of Drinking Water Standards]<br></font></em><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><br>•
Minister, MOE <<a href="mailto:minister.moe@ontario.ca">minister.moe@ontario.ca</a>> </font><em><font face="Arial, sans-serif">[Ontario
Ministry of Environment] <br></font></em><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><br>•
Environmental Commissioner of Ontario <<a href="mailto:commissioner@eco.on.ca">commissioner@eco.on.ca</a>><br><br></font></blockquote><font face="Arial, sans-serif">Thank you,<br><br>Carole Clinch</font>, BA, BPHE<br>
Research Coordinator, People for Safe Drinking Water<br><blockquote>
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