Fluoride Action Network (FAN) is calling for the resignation of Casey Hannan, director of the CDC Oral Health Division, for misleading the American people about the studies that have associated fluoride exposure with brain damage in children.
Paul Connett, PhD, FAN’s executive director, said Hannan did this when responding to a question he posed to Hannan in writing a week before a webinar organized by the American Association of Dental Research (AADR) and the National Institute of Dental and Cranial Research (NIDCR).
Connett asked Hannan if the recent studies funded by NIEHS and other US agencies that had found fluoride was linked to damage to children’s brains (loss of IQ) would lead to a halt of their promotion of water fluoridation and the establishment of a separate body at the CDC to review of these studies independent of the Oral Health Division.
Hannan responded that “the bottom line is that the NIEHS published studies and others published around the world were looking at levels which are much higher than the recommended 0.7 mg/liter that the U.S. has” — which Connett says is “simply untrue.”
Subsequently, FAN said in a press release as they called for Hannan to step down, “Whether Hannan is dishonest or incompetent, he should not be in charge of a division that influences the world on this issue. The CDC has been cited literally thousands of times in newspaper article and statements by public officials that, ‘Water fluoridation is one of the top public health achievements of the Twentieth Century’ (CDC, 1999). In reality, water fluoridation is one of the greatest public health mistakes ever made.”
SOURCE: Fluoride Action Network April 12, 2021