Dentist Hid Fluoride-Cancer Link

An environmental group alleges a dentist who teaches at Harvard concealed a studenThe Environmental Working Group, which is based in Washington, planned to file a complaint Tuesday with federal regulators against Dr. Chester Douglass, the Boston Herald reports.t's findings linking fluoride to bone cancer. Douglass is a professor of epidemiology at the Harvard School of Dental Medicine. The group says that he received a grant from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences to study a possible link between fluoride and bone cancer in adolescent boys. The EWG says a student, Dr. Elise Bassin, found a correlation and that Douglass, while signing off on her research, did not include it in his grant report. Douglass is the editor in chief of the Colgate Oral Care report, a newsletter subsidized by Colgate Palmolive.