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...Harvard School of Dental Medicine announced on Wednesday that it will launch an investigation into the work of one its faculty members , after an environmental watchdog group accused the professor of ignoring research conducted by one of his own students that linked fluoride to bone cancer in boys...
Chester Douglass, chair of the dental school’s Oral Health Policy and Epidemiology Department, reported in a recent study that was based on research funded with government money that there is no correlation between flouride and bone cancer in boys, ignoring findings by one of his doctoral students that such a correlation did in fact exist...
...parts of the preliminary report show Douglass reported finding no significant connection between fluoride and osteosarcoma, a rare but deadly form of bone cancer that strikes early in life...
...Justice William Rehnquist offered no indication that he'd be leaving the bench as he made his way through announcements of the final decisions of the Supreme Court's term this morning in his weakened condition. Rehnquist-who missed five months of the term while being treated for thyroid cancer-gaveled the courtroom closed until early October without mentioning a word about the retirement that many court-watchers had been expecting...
DIED. SHANA ALEXANDER, 79, witty, trailblazing journalist and author; of cancer; in Hermosa Beach, Calif. The first female staff writer at LIFE, she became a household name for her verbal sparring with conservative James Kilpatrick on Point/Counterpoint, a segment on TV's 60 Minutes in the 1970s that was often parodied by Saturday Night Live's Jane Curtin and Dan Aykroyd...