Stop Dental Mercury, It's a Common Cause of Chronic Disease
March 20, 2014
Hosted by Rob Moir
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Episode Description
Karen Palmer of the Pennsylvania Coalition for Mercury-Free Dentistry and Dental Amalgam Mercury Solutions talks with Rob about her personal experience with severe mercury poisoning. Karen, who worked as a dental assistant, is suffering from the effects of mercury exposure in the dentist's office as well as her own exposure through having nine amalgam fillings of her own. Karen is very active in working to educate the public on toxic dentistry and how it can be avoided. Laura Henze Russell talks about her experience, and how you can join Hidden River Health Challenge: A Social Innovation Enterprise and become part of a network of people and organizations starting to coordination communication, strategy and actions at the local, state and federal levels. Become part of a network of people and organizations starting to coordination communication, strategy and actions at the local, state and federal levels at http://www.oceanriver.org/hiddenriver.php
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Rob Moir
Rob Moir is director and founder of the Ocean River Institute in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Dr. Moir, an educator and scientist, has been a leader of citizen science and efforts to clean up Salem Sound and Boston Harbor, as founder of Salem Sound Harbor Monitors & Salem Sound 2000, later president of Save the Harbor/Save the Bay, and through his appointment by the Secretary of Interior to the Boston Harbor Islands Partnership. He was formerly Curator of Natural History at the Peabody Essex Museum, Curator of Education at the New England Aquarium and Executive Director of the Discovery Museums in Acton, MA. Dr. Moir was awarded a Switzer Environmental Fellowship from the Robert & Patricia Switzer Foundation, and the James Centorino Award for Distinguished Performance in Marine Education by the National Marine Educators Association, which he later served as president. He was Sea Education Association’s first assistant scientist to work consecutive voyages of the R.V. Westward in 1979 and 1980, an advancement officer for his alma mater, Hampshire College and serves today on the boards of his alma mater, Cambridge School of Weston, Ocean Champions, and the Massachusetts League of Environmental Voters. Dr. Moir has a Ph.D. in Environmental Studies and a Masters of Science and Teaching from Antioch New England Graduate School in Keene, NH and certificate of studies from the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole.
