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Our Projects

Since 2001, with limited staff, Second Look has been working on projects meant to be supportive of professionals who wish to learn more and/or need tools with which to better teach about fluoridation public policy, fluoride toxicity, fluoride poisoning in individuals, and other environmental health issues. Projects include:

• Planning our first non-fluoride related program about another controversial public policy issue, concerning the science and politics of electromagnetic radiation. As with our fluoride information, we will present the best science available on this issue in a fair and objective way;
• Initiating a research program, the Fluoride Toxicity Research Collaborative, designed to look for ways to more easily detect, diagnose, confirm, and ultimately treat cases of fluoride poisoning;
• Responding to concerns of fluoride poisoned individuals who contact us; looking forward to establishing a formal “hotline” service for these individuals;
• FTRC is also a “Collaborative”, amassing physicians, dentists, scientists, and other professionals who wish to learn more about fluoride poisoning in individuals. Our FTRC Members' Exchange is the e-mail discussion group for professional Collaborative members who wish to exchange high-level medical and scientific information, both theoretical and practical, about fluoride illness;
• Developing a high-quality website, www.SLweb.org, providing a reliable online reference library with its outstanding Bibliography of peer-reviewed scientific literature on fluoride’s health effects;
• Sponsoring and co-sponsoring seminars on the science of fluorides and fluoridation;
• Creating and disseminating the Statement of Concern on Fluoridation, amassing the signatures of many professional individuals as well as organizations who are concerned enough to support a call for a Congressional investigation into the public policy of fluoridation;
• Building alliances with environmental, environmental health, health, and other types of coalitions,organizations and individuals, with which to share related information;
• Helping scientists and other important individuals attend important meetings by subsidizing their transportation costs;
• Completing a pilot project for a creative PowerPoint presentation (and ultimate training program) that has huge potential for outreach to health professionals dealing with health effects of fluoride;
• Through SLweb.org, making contacts that otherwise would have been not possible; one of these contacts led , making contacts that otherwise would have been not possible; one of these contacts led to the establishment of an online support group for fluoride poisoned people, the only one of its kind in existence;
• Elevating the legitimacy of the fluoridation issue in its adherence to a scientific, rather than political, identity; also, some preliminary success in gaining acceptance by environmental and environmental health professionals, of fluoride contamination as another environmental health issue (previously not considered seriously or at all).