Word: douglass
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...Chester Douglass, chair of the Oral Health Policy and Epidemiology Department at the Harvard School of Dental Medicine (HSDM), submitted written testimony to the National Research Council last year claiming that there was no significant link between fluoride and osteosarcoma, a rare but deadly form of bone cancer...
...page report Douglass delivered to the NIEHS—a branch of the National Institutes of Health (NIH)—was only an outline of the research he and other scientists performed; a final report is slated for release sometime this year...
...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...
That claim, Wiles said, directly contradicts the 2001 research of Elise B. Bassin, a doctoral student at the Dental School whom Douglass himself advised...
...order to receive grant money [from the NIH], each university has to put in place a mechanism” to investigate such charges, Bruske said. She added that “various measures [could be] put in place” by the government to punish Douglass if Harvard concludes there was wrongdoing...