Aé - The Terrace Standard, Wednesday, April 2, 2003 CORRESPONDENCE FOR THE TERRACE STANDARD The Mail Bag Fluoride worries legitimate Dear Sir: I doubt that Dr, Nenninger appreciates Dr. Zucchiatti coming to his rescue (“Hang in there, Tom” letter to the editor, March 19, 2003). | am confident that Dr. Nennin- ger would have been quite capable of answering for him- self, and [ did not “attack” Dr. Nenninger. It was it was never my intention. I stated some of the thousands of scientific facts as they stand today. Dr. Zucchiatti calling my statements “radical” and .“unsupported” only reveals a total lack of credible information. The echo has: sounded from. day-one: Save the child~ . . ren’s teeth. It became a rally cry. Those daring to ques- tion that concept on grounds of safety or efficacy were ridiculed and subjected to character assassination when everything else failed. After all, the experts who gave us mercury (silver amalgam), thalidomide and numerous other failures could do us no wrong, When local dentists’ completely disregard all avail- able scientific information — but still insist on 50-year- old erroneous information based on the industrial waste producers’ vested interests — I feel. it is time for a change. The only non-issue about fluoridation is that all the overwhelming scientific evidence against it should prevent us from even considering the use of it. I would like to see Dr. Zucchiatti’s scientific docu- mented literature which shows that fluoride is safe, beneficial and will cause no harm. It would be advisable for the dentists to go on the in- ternet and see for themselves and not take my word for it. By then you would not call it gibberish. Grethe Brorup, Terrace, B.C. Don’t blame the IWA Dear Sir: Strike deal, our MLA urges our mill workers. Roger, they have tried to do a deal, and every time: they do, Veniez changes the plan. Roger, these mill workers have been locked out for 18 months, without pay. During those months Veniez has sold off most of the $20 million inventory he paid $8 million for. You should talk to him. You can blame someone be- sides the union, The deal that Veniez was close to would have set the union’s working conditions back 30 years. That's a deal you have to refuse, and that’s why it was made. You imply that all mill workers get seven weeks holi- day per year, and you know that is wrong. Mill workers get holidays in recognition of their years of service - up to seven weeks. Locked out workers are receiving strike pay at the level of your new minimum wage, $6 dollars per hour and there is no connection whatsoever between an as- sured start up day and the termination of strike pay. Strike pay ends when the mill re-opens; you know that. You advise mill workers to. push for a deal. I would advise you to push your friend Dan to make a deal. 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