ICWA Weekly News 4-16-25
HB 1531 passes, in contrast to recent Medical Freedom victories; BOH meeting--or vaccine pep rally; ICWA comments lead to BOH flu vax discussion; BOH commenters continue push to ban water fluoridation
In this issue:
Washington State Senate Passes HB 1531, “Consolidating public health decisions on the ‘best available science’”
Washington Board of Health Meeting Turns Into a Vaccine Pep Rally
ICWA Public Comment Leads to Board of Health Flu Vaccine Discussion
All Four Public Comments Speak Against Water Fluoridation
Upcoming events where you can find ICWA advocates:
May 3, Spokane, Lessons Learned from COVID; Taking Back Medicine - Dr. McCullough, Scott Atlas, Mary Talley Bowden, Kelly Victory, Robbie Raugh, Dr. Kinley
May 18, Southwest Washington (Washougal), Washington Parents Network
May 23, Washougal, Patriots United WA final event, Robert Scott Bell, Scott Miller, Joyce Choe
April 11 Episode of Informed Life Radio – notes and links
Fluoride’s Final Fate with guest Dr. Bill Osmunson, DDS, MPH. He’s been in the fight for decades against fluoridated water. With so many localities across the nation banning fluoridation, and with major court decisions and science adding pressure, now is the time for us all to stop the practice once and for all.
Links to broadcast - don’t say we don’t work hard to get the word out! (P.S. Excuse our multiple tech issues in this episode; usually we’re smoother than this.)
Fluoride’s Final Fate on ICWA’s website
Fluoride’s Final Fate on CHD Washington Chapter website
Fluoride’s Final Fate on CHD.TV (national)
Fluoride’s Final Fate on ICWA’s Rumble
Fluoride’s Final Fate on CHD-Washington Chapter’s Rumble
Fluoride’s Final Fate on ICWA’s Facebook, now available for only 30 days (I think)
Fluoride’s Final Fate on ICWA’s X/Twitter
Fluoride’s Final Fate on KKNW (audio only)
Fluoride’s Final Fate on podcasts (audio only)
Tell us in the comments where you like to catch the show!
Shownotes:
ICWA Weekly News, January 15, 2025: Dr. Osmunson Sees Hope Even After the Washington Board of Health Rejected His Latest Water Fluoridation Petition
Water Fluoridation - Children's Health Defense Washington Chapter
EPA Will Expeditiously Review New Science on Fluoride in Drinking Water | US EPA
Washington State Legislature Passes HB 1531 in Contrast to Victories Across the U.S.
Last week, victorious stories about medical freedom and safer foods swept the nation:
Idaho passed The Medical Freedom Act.
Tennessee stopped a bill shielding pesticide manufacturers from liability—think The 1986 Act, but for pesticide manufacturers.
Iowa, Oklahoma, Montana, Idaho, and Mississippi killed the same type of bill earlier in the session.
Utah was the first state to ban fluoride in their drinking water.
Miami-Dade County in Florida voted to remove fluoride from its water.
West Virginia became the first in the nation to enact a sweeping ban on food dyes and two preservatives: butylated hydroxyanisole and propylparaben.
Jeffery Jaxen summed up this string of victories in this manner:
The massive lift to turn around American health by removing the many barriers (read toxins and poisons) in our food, water, and health products at the federal level is underway . . .
The bigger story is the accelerating moves happening at the state level to these ends. Like a nonstop conveyer belt of progress, protections in the form of legislation are being moved through hearings and stamped into law by governors around the country.
Unfortunately, Washington State’s conveyor belt went the opposite way when the Senate last Thursday passed HB 1531 about preserving the ability of public officials to address communicable diseases. It was possibly the toughest hit for medical freedom fighters in this state since the passing of HB 1638 in 2019, which removed the parents’ ability to exempt their schoolkids from MMR vaccine products for a personal/philosophic reason.
HB 1531 calls for the “best available science” to be dictated to all state jurisdictions when addressing communicable diseases. It doesn’t specify who decides or how the best available science is determined. It does contain troubling wording that could be misused in the future, like “state and local public health officials must…implement…appropriate measures.” But the declared intent is mainly about forcing all public health jurisdictions to circle-the-wagons and stick to the same story - no dissent. The bill now goes to Governor Bob Ferguson for his signature. The bill contains an emergency clause so will take effect immediately upon signature, even though there is no perceived emergency; the majority party has simply included this emergency clause to prevent We the People from filing a referendum to overturn it.
This bill is highly unfavorable with the people. The bill’s hearing on January 31 had over 10,000 “CON” registrations, versus 162 public “PRO,” mostly public health employees. Nevertheless, the bill was passed out of the House Health Committee and eventually passed the Senate, with votes along party lines. The only exception was Republican Paul Harris (LD 17, Vancouver), who voted with the Democrats in favor of the bill.
The day before the Senate vote, Be Brave Washington leader Natalie Chavez spoke to the Washington Board of Health (BOH) about HB 1531 during the public comment period. She told the board that with the over 10,000 “CON” sign ins against the bill, it should have died in the House.
“But obviously that didn’t matter,” she said. “And it wouldn't matter if there were over a million CON votes opposing HB 1531, because you're all going to end up voting to support it, anyway, which is why trust in public health here is severely broken and beyond repair. As a lifelong Democrat, it’s really disheartening for me to see how the CON votes of thousands of Washingtonians across the political spectrum just don't matter.”
Department of Health Chief Medical Officer Tao Kwan-Gett put much time and effort into the passage of HB 1531, testifying in favor during both House and Senate committee hearings. But at the March 12 BOH meeting, he was conspicuously silent about the bill during his department update. During the April 9 BOH meeting, he glossed over the bill in the following manner:
This bill preserves the ability of public officials to address communicable disease threats based on the best available science, and this bill is currently in the Senate for a second reading [soon to be on the] calendar awaiting final passage.
That’s all.
During the Senate floor debate prior to the vote, Senator Annette Cleveland, (D-49 Vancouver), voiced support for the bill (evoking speeches by a certain former U.S. Vice-president known to ruminate about the passage of time:)
Mr. President, I rise today to speak in support of public health. And the science that underpins it. Public health is not just about hospitals or disease prevention. It's about clean air. It's about safe water. It's about maternal care. It's about mental health and, and so much more. It's the invisible infrastructure. It’s easy to take for granted. It's at the heart of public health, as we know, is science - evidence-based, peer-reviewed, data-driven science. And so this bill will help ensure access to public health information, education that's backed by that science for every member here, uh, here in the state.
Carleen Johnson of the Center Square also covered the news from last Thursday in this short article.
Senator Cleveland’s quote on the floor in itself conjures nightmares of when Tony Fauci once said, “Attacks on me are attacks on science because all the things that I have spoken about from the very beginning have been fundamentally based on science.”
Republican Senator Ron Muzzall said:
I think the last four or five years are evidence that we cannot be sure what the best available science is.
Republican Senator Leonard Christian also spoke in opposition to the bill:
“I served in the military for 20 years, and during that time, I was not allowed to talk to the media for any reason; even though I went to crash investigation school and learned how and why airplanes would crash, I still was barred at any point of time with talking to the media. I believe this bill is doing the same thing,” he said. “It is making it so any dissent from the official policy is quashed. I believe this is a bad bill and a black eye on the First Amendment. I want to hear everything, all of the science available and I believe this hides people’s right to be able to speak.”
ICWA Director Bob Runnells put the bill into perspective. “At least the bill really doesn't do too much differently than what our automaton public health offices already do – stick together in their lies,” he said. “It will be most interesting to see what happens with the Medical Freedom Resolution in Cowlitz County, and the Franklin County resolution warning against mRNA shots if Ferguson signs the bill into law. I have a feeling that the attorney general will need to sue in order to nullify Franklin County's resolution.”
As much as this is the case, the public uproar over HB 1531 has begun. On Saturday, on a Central Washington Conservative Substack,
wrote:This bill gives unelected bureaucrats unchecked authority to impose health mandates, vaccines, masks, and quarantines without your consent. Critics on X are calling it what it is: an assault on informed choice. It would allow the state to ignore personal beliefs, medical history, and even doctor recommendations, all under the vague banner of “public safety.” This isn’t about health. It’s about power.
Larry Cook, a longtime medical freedom fighter with 125,000+ followers on X, reposted dubious information on HB 1531 and pleaded that everyone tell Governor Ferguson to Veto. His post is not a bad call to action, but the claims he makes about the bills impacts show he might not have done his due diligence.
We won’t include the complete message here because the claims are so far outside the scope of this bill and we don’t want to give them more credence in print. We think he reads too much into the bill, although in the worst of outcomes he might be right.
But we do say “thank you very much, Larry Cook,” for getting thousands alarmed about what goes on here in Washington State.
Looking past the debate on what the bill might lead to, one thing is clear: the bill is poorly written. So much so, that in the Weekly News of March 19, your author and Dr. Bill Osmunson agreed that HB 1531 “is the worst piece of proposed legislation in the history of our state.” It’s vagueness could lead to trouble down the road. We will need to hold them accountable to the front matter of the bill that says they’re not making any new mandates.
Washington Board of Health Meeting Turns Into a Vaccine Pep Rally
A personal account by Gerald Braude
During my public comment at the April 9 Washington Board of Health (BOH) meeting (at 0:30:15), I glared at the board members and whipped off the following stats of adverse events in our state alone following the COVID-19 shot:
3,500 adverse events in which the onsets began within one day following the COVID-19 shot. (VAERS link) This is part of the 212,659 adverse events across the United States in which the onset began within one day after taking the jab.
26 deaths in which the onset began within twenty-fours after taking the jab.
24 seizures in which the onset began 24 hours after taking the COVID jab.
5 cardiac arrests in our state that occurred within one day after the shot, and that’s not including the 69-year-old listed under “road traffic accidents” who had just taken a first Moderna shot and was pulling into the observation area when he lost consciousness and control of his truck and crashed it into a light pole.
10 incidents of Bell’s Palsy here in our state in which the onset began within one day after taking the COVID shot.
With those kinds of stats, I figured someone at the U-shaped BOH table would think that maybe these COVID-19 shots weren’t such a great idea after all, and maybe we should look at the safety of other vaccines as well.
But when Tao Kwan-Gett gave his Department of Health (DOH) update a bit later and said, “Immunizations have been one of the most incredible public health triumphs,” and all the board members nodded in fixated agreement, I knew this was not going to be the case.
So, how did this chief medical officer of the DOH get the board to agree with this so easily? What else but fear? Fear of measles in this case. He continued:
Measles activity continues to increase nationally and globally. Of course, we are closely following the Gaines County, Texas, outbreak, which has spread to eighteen additional counties in Texas as well as two surrounding states. Texas has reported nearly 500 cases mostly centered around the Mennonite community. There are fifty-six hospitalizations and two deaths, both in children.
As soon as he said, “two deaths, both in children,” the board members gasped. I wanted to stand up and scream, “But both those deaths were due to medical error!”
In fact, both of those deaths occurred at the same Covenant Children’s Hospital in Lubbock, Texas. The first death was not directly due to a measles infection, from which the child was almost fully recovered, but because of the hospital’s failure to identify the correct antibiotic in a timely fashion, coupled with a nine-hour delay once the correct antibiotic was identified.
As for the second death, Dr. Pierre Kory, who has extensive experience in pulmonary and critical care medicine, told The Defender that the child’s medical records showed she died from “ARDS secondary to hospital-acquired pneumonia,” which he said she likely developed during a previous hospital stay.
Kory added the following:
The causative organism was a highly antibiotic-resistant E. coli (‘superbug’), which she contracted during the first hospital ICU [intensive care unit] stay.
This went largely unrecognized and poorly treated during the second hospital stay because they began to ‘tunnel in’ by blaming measles for her worsening pneumonia and repeatedly writing in the chart that she was unvaccinated.
Of the eight days she spent in the second hospital [visit], the child was given antibiotics for only four days. Not until two days before her death did the thought of a ‘possible hospital-acquired infection’ creep into the records. The bug was utterly resistant to the antibiotics they put her on.
Trial Site News reported, “While it is not 100% clear when she was first diagnosed with Measles, Kory states that she had a positive Measles test during her first hospital stay, but at the time of her discharge, the rash was clearing up and her overall condition had improved.”
Dr. Suzanne Humphries presented her assessment on CHD-TV in which she said that the child’s measles rash was fading during her second of three visits to the hospital.
Humphries also mentioned that the 200 pages of medical records were completely out of order, with multiple copies saying that the child was “unimmunized.”
Tao Kwan-Gett continued to frighten the board with the reported U.S. case numbers and trends across the world:
New Mexico has also reported one death that is suspected to be due to measles. So far this year, in the U.S., the CDC reports more than 600 cases from twenty-two U.S jurisdictions in which 97% of measles cases are reported to be unvaccinated or have unknown vaccine status.
A number of countries have measles circulating endemically, particularly poor countries with underdeveloped health systems and low rates of measles vaccination. Other countries have eliminated measles but are experiencing outbreaks because they have pockets of the population with low rates of MMR vaccination, and these become centers of outbreaks when a travel-related case of measles is imported to that portion of the population. And so this is the case in Canada, where there are more than 500 cases spread from New Brunswick to Ontario. It's also the case in Mexico where their Mennonite community has cases related to the outbreak in Texas.
By this time, the board members fixated their gaze on Kwan-Gett with wide-opened eyes and dropped jaws as if watching a horror movie. And sure enough, the boogie man had come here to our state.
“Here in Washington we have had our third reported measles case of the year, an infant in Snohomish County,” Kwan-Gett said. “The other two confirmed cases were in King County. Two of these three cases were travel-related.”
By this time, the board members were frightened into submission for Kwan-Gett’s sales marketing pitch for Pharma:
Though our numbers are thankfully small, it's important to keep in mind that Washington is not immune to a large outbreak. So it's very important for our health system to be prepared, particularly for our counties and communities with lower rates of MMR vaccination. It's important for jurisdictions to be able to detect cases early, keep their health care providers informed, and when there is a case, ensure timely contact tracing. And of course, the best way to prevent a measles outbreak in our state is to ensure that everyone is up to date on their MMR vaccinations as recommended by CDC.
Kwan-Gett’s fear-filled speech stirred up bad memories of measles from BOH Member Steve Kutz. “I'm going to take you back seventy years,” Kutz said. “When I was in first grade, I was more out of school than I was in school because of all of the infectious diseases that I acquired as soon as I went to first grade, and I can still remember vividly the rash on my body when I had measles laying in my bed upstairs with the backs of my eyelids burning so hot because of the fever that I was in.”
Besides Kutz’s false assumption that the measles vaccine would have one-hundred-percent assuredly prevented him from getting the virus, and his ignorance of the CDC’s and WHO’s acknowledgment that the measles can be effectively treated without having to resort to vaccinations, his terrible memories of measles were out of touch with the times decades ago when the virus was viewed not with fear but with light humor, as portrayed in the 1969 episode of the Brady Bunch.
The following lines of dialogue from the kids home from school with measles reflects the casual attitude with the virus.
“Boy, this is the life isn’t it?”
“Yeah, if you’re going to get sick, you sure can’t beat the measles.”
“That’s right. No medicine.”
“No shots, either.”
“Don’t even mention shots. Yich.”
But Kutz’s comment gave Kwan-Gett the opportunity to further market Big Pharma’s measles vaccine products, and he did so in the following way:
And I agree. Immunizations have been one of the most incredible public health triumphs, and I think because they have been so successful at reducing some diseases that used to cause so much morbidity and mortality as you described, I think many people don't understand the benefits that we, as a society, get from vaccination every day in terms of improved health and reduced mortality. So I think that's one of our challenges. How can we communicate the benefits of vaccines, while also accurately communicating the risks that are involved?
At this point, I wanted to stand up and yell, “Since you mentioned risks, can’t you people at this moment discuss the injuries that have occurred within one day after taking the COVID-19 shots that I mentioned in my public comment?”
But Kwan-Gett went on to further promote the DOH’s marketing campaign for Merck and others when he subtly besmirched Dr. Dave Weldon after Trump removed him from the nomination process to head the CDC: “The Trump Administration withdrew the nomination of Dr. Dave Weldon to lead CDC after some senators voiced concerns about Dr. Weldon's vaccine skepticism.” For some reason, Kwan-Gett did not mention that these concerns were actually a smear campaign led by our very own Senator Patty Murray. (ICWA Weekly News 3-19-25)
Furthermore, as anticipated, Kwan-Gett bombarded the board with plenty of financial fear from HHS workforce adjustments, such as the consolidation of twenty-eight divisions into fifteen; a new Administration for a Healthy America consolidation with the office of the Assistant Secretary of Health and the Health Resources and Services Administration; the reduction of ten regional HHS offices to five regional offices; and the decrease in the CDC workforce by approximately 2,400 employees. Kwan-Gett viewed this last reduction as a “change that signals a less holistic view of public health and a narrower focus in the future on infectious diseases.”
Kwan-Gett then showed his lack of comprehension of Robert Kennedy’s HHS organizational restructuring:
It's a lot. And it's challenging to understand the full picture of the changes as the Trump Administration has not publicly released a detailed overview of the cuts at HHS. And this has led to a lot of confusion and uncertainty about the reorganization.
Actually, the most perplexing part of Kwan-Gett’s assessment is why he never mentioned that the HHS just started incorporating an agency within CDC that is going to specialize in vaccine injuries.
ICWA Public Comment Leads to Board of Health Flu Vaccine Discussion
During the public comment period at the April 9 Board of Health (BOH) meeting, ICWA Director Bob Runnells gave the board a heads up on a Cleveland Clinic study that found a 26.9% negative efficacy for the influenza vaccine during the 2024–2025 respiratory viral season.
The study got widespread recognition from both The Defender and Nicolas Hulscher from Focal Points.
Quoting Trial Site News, The Defender summarized the results of the study:
People who received a flu vaccine formulated for the 2024-2025 flu season had a 27% higher risk of getting the flu than those who didn’t get the vaccine, suggesting “the vaccine has not been effective in preventing influenza this season,” according to a new preprint study.
The study of 53,402 employees of the Cleveland Clinic, an Ohio-based nonprofit academic medical center, concluded that the flu vaccine had a negative effectiveness rate of 26.9%.
According to the study, published last week on the MedRxiv preprint server:
The cumulative incidence of influenza did not appear to be significantly different between the vaccinated and unvaccinated states early on, but over the course of the study the cumulative incidence of infection increased more rapidly among the vaccinated than among the unvaccinated.
TrialSite News called the findings “deeply concerning” because they suggest “harm rather than protection” and contradict public health narratives about the flu vaccine.
On Focal Points, Nicolas Hulscher shared the following blunt conclusion from the study:
This study found that influenza vaccination of working-aged adults was associated with a higher risk of influenza during the 2024-2025 respiratory viral season, suggesting that the vaccine has not been effective in preventing influenza this season.
Ever a propagandist for Big Pharma, Tao Kwan-Gett naturally did not mention this during his Department of Health update. But as a pleasant surprise, Board Chair Patty Hayes did when she said to Kwan-Gett, “We had public comment around the efficacy of this year's flu vaccine and reference to a document, so I would want to give you the opportunity to get that document and look at it.” She then asked in a roundabout way, “But if you could bring back to the board that information, but what's the story on the development of the flu vaccine for next season?”
Tao Kwan-Gett squirmed in his seat before addressing next year’s flu vaccine:
My understanding is that there is still time to create the formulation for next season's flu vaccine, and that this would be done . . . directly with the manufacturers, and my understanding is that there's a key meeting or milestone in June, and if that June milestone is not met, then I think that that would call into question. But my understanding is that just the cancellation of the ACIP meetings throws some uncertainty into the process. But it is not yet an irreversible step. But let me let me consult with the team and get more details on that.
He also addressed the study on the failed 2024-25 flu vaccine:
Let me also ask the team about studies looking at the efficacy of this season's flu vaccine. That's something that we always do as a as a matter of evaluating how we selected the strains for the flu vaccine in the previous year, and every year it changes. Some years, they're successful in selecting strains for the vaccine that are a better match for circulating strains. Other years, not as good a match. So I'll ask the team for the data?
Hayes then put forth some damage control concerning the lack of credibility of the flu vaccine:
Just for the public listening in, it's really important that the identification of the components of the flu vaccine is an interesting, best guess process at the national level with everyone, and I think it would be great in June, or whenever is appropriate to kind-of, just bring that back and keep the status of that. Because if we are going to have a problem with the flu vaccine in this next season, we want to make sure that the board's aware, so we know what role we can serve to maybe talk about other countermeasures. [emphasis added]
Then came Kwan-Gett’s vaccine marketing pitch:
“Yeah, absolutely. Yeah. Flu vaccine saves thousands of lives nationally each year.”
Does it? If so, ICWA would very much like to see the data to support his claim.
On a related note, since public health messaging on flu shots often lumps in COVID and RSV injections, The Defender reported that same day on a study published in BMJ Open that said pregnant women vaccinated with Pfizer’s Abrysvo RSV vaccine were more likely to experience preterm births.
The first peer-reviewed post-authorization safety analysis of Pfizer’s respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) vaccine found that the average time between vaccination and preterm birth was three days. Two-thirds of the cases occurred within a week of immunization. [emphasis added]
The findings confirm concerns raised during clinical trials for the drug, which also found a higher number of preterm births among women who took the vaccines.
When Pfizer reported its clinical trial results, the vaccine maker said that although there were higher preterm birth rates in the vaccine group than the placebo group, the numbers weren’t statistically significant.
Some members of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) vaccine advisory committee said they had serious safety concerns about the vaccine based on the clinical trial data.
In 2023, the FDA approved the vaccine despite the concerns and even though four committee members voted against approving the drug.
VAERS reports eighty-three cases of premature births following Pfizer’s Abrysvo RSV vaccine.
One of those cases occurred here in Washington, and it led to a premature stillbirth that occurred this year. The twenty-seven-year-old mother took Pfizer’s Abrysvo RSV vaccine on January 16, 2025. The dosage is listed as unknown. Submitted VAERS write-up: “Two days after shot baby had no heartbeat. Baby was born 24 hours later stillborn. 4lbs 13oz. her name on birth cert. Born at hospital.”
All Four Public Comments on Water Fluoridation Were Against
Perhaps for the first time ever, the public comments at a Washington Board of Health (BOH) meeting made a clean 4-0 sweep against fluoridating public drinking water supplies.
Retired dentist Bill Osmunson, who has been speaking out against water fluoridation for over a decade, led off with an in-person public comment by focusing on Washington law:
RCW 43.20.050 (2)(a) The Board of Health is to "Adopt rules necessary to assure safe . . . drinking water"
The law does not say to weigh the benefits versus risks or do a cost benefit analysis or even determine whether ingested fluoride has any benefit. Benefit to treat, prevent or mitigate disease is up the Food and Drug Administration Center for Drug Evaluation and Research.
The word "assure" is defined as "positively, confidently dispel any doubts."
In 2006, the National Research Council listed about 18 different risks to health from fluoride exposure. No honest, knowledgeable authority could claim fluoridation is safe. And yet for 19 years the Board has ignored the law and science.
In 2025, Chauhan published a list of health hazards from fluoride:
"Fluoride toxicity: oxidative stress, upregulates hormonal mechanisms, causing hormonal disruption. . . bone deformity . . . dental fluorosis, skeletal fluorosis . . . bone and joint abnormalities. . . hampers ATP formation . . . alters metabolic and reproductive hormones, . . . impaired spermatogenesis, . . . reduced sperm quality, and infertility. . . liver damage. . . genetic damage to DNA, IQ deficits, and increased risk of developmental abnormalities. Neurological impacts involve structural changes in the brain, memory issues, and neuronal loss. . . affects cellular organelles, inducing oxidative stress, apoptosis, and disrupting hormonal balance . . .transcription factors, and protein synthesis. It alters different genes implicated in bone metabolism, hormone signaling, and immune function, which leads to harmful impacts of fluoride on human health."
Molecular Mechanism of Fluoride-Induced Toxicity and Associated Health Hazards. Chauhan (2025)
https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-031-77247-4_5
ICWA Director Lisa Templeton then pitched in with the following on Zoom:
Water fluoridation is a practice that should be discontinued in the interest of public health. The CDC acknowledges that any purported benefit of fluoride is topical, not systemic. This means that ingesting fluoride through drinking water does not significantly contribute to cavity prevention.
It is also important to note that many developed countries have rejected water fluoridation. 97% of Western European populations do not consume fluoridated water. These countries have experienced similar declines in tooth decay rates as fluoridated regions, suggesting that other factors—such as improved hygiene and nutrition—play a more significant role in oral health.
Additionally, water fluoridation does not allow for individual consent, effectively administering medication without the explicit agreement of community members. This practice is ethically questionable and disregards personal autonomy. It does not allow for controlled dosage.
Given these points, I respectfully urge the Board to discontinue water fluoridation in our communities. Additionally, I ask that the Board allow Dr. Bill Osmunson to present his findings and perspective to the fluoridation panel. He has compiled extensive scientific evidence over the years indicating that fluoridation is not safe.
It is also important to remember that the Board's role is to assure water safety, not to evaluate the purported efficacy of substances added to it.
Rick North, a former CEO of the Oregon chapter of American Cancer Society now retired, said that for most of his life, he supported fluoridation. but once he researched the science and discovered its risks, he changed his mind. “I feel so strongly that I volunteer all over the United States opposing it,” he said.
The final commenter on Zoom, Derek Kamppainen, said that he wished to echo the sentiment of all the previous speakers. “I'd like to recommend that the Department of Health prioritize doing no harm by discontinuing the promotion of fluoridation, COVID-19 vaccinations and childhood vaccinations. In regard to fluoride, the more a person learns about fluoride, the less they support water fluoridation.”
The removal of fluoride from our drinking water in our state got a much-needed boost on the national level two days before the BOH meeting when HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said he plans to tell the CDC to stop recommending water fluoridation nationally. The Defender reported:
Kennedy’s deputy chief of staff Stefanie Spear said Kennedy would direct the CDC’s community preventive services task force to study fluoride and make a new recommendation, The New York Times reported.
Zeldin and Kennedy made the announcements at a press conference in Utah, which last week became the first state to ban the practice of adding fluoride to community water supplies.
Whatfinger News reported the following:
BREAKING: RFK Jr. just called to STOP adding fluoride to our water. “The evidence against fluoride is overwhelming…. we know that it causes profound IQ loss… and other neurological injuries like ADHD.” Fluoride is a neurotoxin. It should be removed from our water immediately!
Sodium fluoride was sure death for roaches:
Heard immunity
So very sorry about the passage of HB 1531. It’s truly shameful that “the state” takes precedence over “the people.”
We hope the loss of a massive tax base fleeing WA will wake up your legislature. Sadly, that will mean few remain to work from the grassroots to the state house to elect legislators and a governor who will take their oaths seriously to represent the people, not the pharmaco-medico-industrial complex.
For those who stay in WA, please get involved with ICWA.
Here’s another interview writeup about Idaho to inspire you: https://substack.com/@bige47/note/c-109122830
It's shocking how blatantly they could deny WA state citizens' wishes and pass HB1531 anyway. How many people testified against it, I know over 10,000. The contrast with this state compared to others is absolutely appalling!