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Fluoride: the Perfect Zionist Scam to Destroy Nations
How to save 427,384 American lives
annually
One in a series "Killing Christians Through Better
Medicine".
Nations which have not fluoridated their water, like China, Mexico, and
Panama, have cancer mortality rates equivalent to our rate before we began to fluoridate
our water. Most of the three fold increase in our cancer
mortality rate to 221 per 100,000 Americans was after fluoridation began. Had we had
a cancer mortality rate in 1996 equivalent to China's, then rather than 539,533 deaths,
there would have been only 112,149 cancer deaths, saving 427,384 lives
The Dickinson Statement:
"We are told by the fanatical ideologists who
are advocating the fluoridation of the water supplies in this country that their purpose
is to reduce the incidence of tooth decay in children, and it is the plausibility of this
excuse, plus the gullibility of the public and the cupidity of public officials that is
responsible for the present spread of artificial water fluoridation in this country.
"However - and I want to make this very
definite and positive - the real reason behind water fluoridation is not to benefit
children's teeth. If this were the real reason, there are many ways in which it could be
done which are much easier, cheaper and far more effective. The real purpose behind water
fluoridation is to reduce the resistance of the masses to domination and control and loss
of liberty...
"Wen the Nazis, under Hitler, decided to go
into Poland... the German General Staff and the Russian General Staff exchanged scientific
and military ideas, plans and personnel and the scheme of mass control through water
medication was seized upon by the Russian Communists because it fitted ideally into their
plan to Communize the world...
"I say this in all earnestness and sincerity of
a scientist who has spent nearly 20 years research into the chemistry, bio-chemistry,
physiology and pathology of fluorine: any person who drinks artificially fluorinated water
for a period of one year or more will never again be the same person, mentally or
physically."
Why American's are SHEEPLES: FLUORIDE
Why American's are SHEEPLES: FLUORIDE
I, Oliver Kenneth Goff was a member of the Communist Party and
the Young Communist League, from May 2, 1936 to October 9, 1939. During
this period of time, I operated under the alias of John Keats and the
number 18-B-2. My testimony before the Government is incorporated in
Volume 9 of the Un-American Activities Report for the year 1939.
While a member of the Communist Party, I attended Communist
underground training schools outside the City of New York: In the
Bues Hall, and 113 East Wells Street, Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The East
Wells Street School operated under the name of the Eugene Debs School.
Here, under the tutoring of Eugene Dennis, M. Sparks, Morris Childs,
Jack Kling and others, we were schooled in the art of revolutionary
overthrow of the established Government.
We were trained on how to dismantle and assemble mimeograph
machines, to use for propaganda purposes during the revolution; how
to work on guide wires and fuel lines of airplanes so that they would
either burst into flames or crash to the ground because of lack of
control; how to work on ties and rails to wreck trains; and also the
art of poisoning water supplies.
We discussed quite throughly the fluoridation of water supplies
and how we were using it in Russia as a tranquilizer in the prison
camps. The leaders of our school felt that if it could be induced into
the American water supply, it would bring-about a spirit of lethargy
in the nation; where it would keep the general public docile during a
steady encroachment of Communism. We also discussed the fact that
keeping a store of deadly fluoride near the water reservoir would be
advantageous during the time of the revolution, as it would give us
opportunity to dump this poison into the water supply and either kill
off the populace or threaten them with liquidation, so that they would
surrender to obtain fresh water.
We discussed in these schools, the complete art of revolution:
the seizure of the main utilities, such as light, power, gas, and water;
but it was felt by the leadership, that if a program of fluoridating
of the water could be carried out in the nation, it would go a long way
toward the advancement of the revolution.
The above statements are true.
STATE OF COLORADO )
) S5
COUNTY OF ARAPAHOE )
OLIVER KENNETH GOFF, being first duly sworn upon his oath, deposes
and says that he has the above and foregoing instrument and knows the
contents thereof, and that the same are true of his own knowledge except
as to those matters stated on the information and belief as to those he
believes them to be true.
(SEAL)subscribed and sworn to before me this 22rd day of June A.D., 1957.
The above information was faxed to APFN on Aug. 6, 1993 from ULTRA LIFE
From FAX: 618-594-7712. This FAX included the following page:
FLUORIDE UPDATE. AUGUST 1993
RECENT DISCLOSURES SHOW THE DANGER OF FLUORIDE AND THE SUPPRESSION OF DAMAGING
INFORMATION FROM THE PUBLIC.
FRIDAY MAY 15, 1992, WILLIAM MARCUS, Ph.D, CHIEF TOXICOLOGIST AND SENIOR ADVISOR AT THE
ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY, (EPA) WAS FIRED FOR HIS DISCLOSURES OF HIP FRACTURE,
CARCINOGENIC, AND OTHER HEALTH AND LIFE THREATENING EFFECTS OF FLUORIDATION.
JUNE 3, 1993, NEW JERSEY ASSEMBLYMAN JOHN V. KELLY, 242 WASHINGTON AVE. NUTLEY, NJ
07110, MADE A STATEMENT BEFORE THE STATE ASSEMBLY, PARTS OF WHICH ARE HEREIN QUOTED.
"WEBSTER'S DICTIONARY DEFINES SODIUM FLUORIDE AS A COLORLESS CRYSTALLINE, WATER
SOLUBLE, POISONOUS SOLID, USED CHIEFLY IN THE FLUORIDATION OF WATER, AS AN INSECTICIDE,
AND AS A RODENTICIDE. THE NJ HEALTH DEPT RELEASED A STUDY LAST NOVEMBER SHOWING AREAS WITH
FLUORIDATED WATER SUPPLIES IN NJ HAD FOUR TIMES MORE OSTEOSCAROMA, A RARE FORM OF BONE
CANCER, THAN AREAS NON-FLUORIDATED."
"THE AMERICAN ACADEMY OF PEDIATRICS RECOMMENDED PRESCIPTION FLUORIDE SUPPLEMENTS
FOR CHILDREN--FLUORIDE DROPS FOR NEW BORNS AND TABLETS FOR OLDER CHILDREN."
"MY OFFICE CONTACTED AMERICAN ACADEMY OF PEDIATRIC DENTISTRY FOR STUDIES OF SAFETY
AND EFFECTIVINESS OF THESE SUPLEMENTS" "THEY WERE NOT IN POSSESSION, ADVISED
THESE COULD BE OBTAINED FROM NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF
DENTAL RESEARCH IN WASHINGTON, THEY DID NOT HAVE THEM AND ADVISED THESE STUDIES ARE IN
DOMAIN OF U.S. FOOD AND DRUG ADMINISTRATION." FDA HAS HAD NO DRUG APPLICATION, NO
STUDIES SHOWING SAFETY OR EFFECTIVENESS OF FLUORIDE DROPS OR TABLETS, ACCORDING TO FRANK
FAZZARI, CHIEF OF FDA DRUG
COMPLIANCE BRANCH, THESE ARE UNAPPROVED NEW DRUGS.!!!
THESE POISONOUS DRUGS HAVE BEEN PRESCRIBED FOR OVER 30 YEARS TO MILLIONS OF CHILDREN.
IT IS IRRESPONSIBLE TO PERMIT THESE PRODUCTS TO BE PRESCRIBED TO THE MOST VULNERABLE
SEGMENT OF OUR POPULATION, OUR CHILDREN.
THE UNION REPRESENTING EPA SCIENTISTS HAS BEEN VERY CRITICAL OF FLUORIDE, CHARGING THAT
MANY STUDIES LINKING FLUORIDE TO A WIDE RANGE OF HEALTH PROBLEMS INCLUDING CANCER, HIP AND
OTHER BONE FRACTURES, ARE SUPPRESSED. ASSEMBLYMAN KELLY THEN REQUSTED DR. D. KESSLER,
COMMISSIONER,
FDA IMMEDIATELY REMOVE THESE FROM THE MARKET, LETTER DATED JUNE 3, 1993. AT THIS DATE
NOTHING HAS BEEN DONE TO STOP THIS NATIONWIDE POISONING.
FOR MORE INFO CONTACT: FRANK FAZZARI AT FDA 301-295-8073 - DR. WM. MARCUS (301)
972-0707, DR. ROBT. CARTON, (301) 874-2948 OR (301) 619-2004, FORMER PRESIDENT EPA
SCIENTIST UNION.
COULD THERE BE A DEEPER, MORE SINISTER REASON FOR FORCING FLUORIDE ON THE PUBLIC? READ
THE NOTORIZED STATEMENT FROM OLIVER KENNETH GOFF. YOU DECIDE IF FLUORIDATION IS ONE MAJOR
REASON WHY WE ARE A NATION OF "SHEEPLE" AND "COUCH POTATOES".
Fluoride & the A-Bomb Program
During the ultra-secret Manhattan Project, a report was commissioned to
assess the effect of fluoride on humans.
That report was classified "secret" for reasons of "national
security".
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_ Joel Griffiths and Chris Bryson 1997
4 West 104th Street
New York, NY 10025, USA
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Some 50 years after United States authorities began adding fluoride to
public water supplies to reduce cavities in children's teeth, recently
discovered declassified government documents are shedding new light on the
roots of that still-controversial public health measure, revealing a
surprising connection between the use of fluoride and the dawning of the
nuclear age.
Today, two-thirds of US public drinking water is fluoridated. Many
municipalities still resist the practice, disbelieving the government's
assurances of safety.
Since the days of World War II when the US prevailed by building the
world's first atomic bomb, the nation's public health leaders have
maintained that low doses of fluoride are safe for people and good for
children's teeth.
That safety verdict should now be re-examined in the light of hundreds of
once-secret WWII-era documents obtained by these reporters [authors
Griffiths and Bryson], including declassified papers of the Manhattan
Project-the ultra-secret US military program that produced the atomic bomb.
Fluoride was the key chemical in atomic bomb production, according to the
documents. Massive quantities-millions of tons-were essential for the
manufacture of bomb-grade uranium and plutonium for nuclear weapons
throughout the Cold War. One of the most toxic chemicals known, fluoride
emerged as the leading chemical health hazard of the US atomic bomb
program, both for workers and for nearby communities, the documents reveal.
Other revelations include:
Ñ Much of the original proof that fluoride is safe for humans in low doses
was generated by A-bomb program scientists who had been secretly ordered to
provide "evidence useful in litigation" against defence contractors for
fluoride injury to citizens. The first lawsuits against the American A-bomb
program were not over radiation, but over fluoride damage, the documents
show.
Ñ Human studies were required. Bomb program researchers played a leading
role in the design and implementation of the most extensive US study of the
health effects of fluoridating public drinking water, conducted in
Newburgh, New York, from 1945 to 1955. Then, in a classified operation
code-named "Program F", they secretly gathered and analysed blood and
tissue samples from Newburgh citizens with the cooperation of New York
State Health Department personnel.
Ñ The original, secret version (obtained by these reporters) of a study
published by Program F scientists in the August 1948 Journal of the
American Dental Association1 shows that evidence of adverse health effects
from fluoride was censored by the US Atomic Energy Commission
(AEC)-considered the most powerful of Cold War agencies-for reasons of
"national security".
Ñ The bomb program's fluoride safety studies were conducted at the
University of Rochester-site of one of the most notorious human radiation
experiments of the Cold War, in which unsuspecting hospital patients were
injected with toxic doses of radioactive plutonium. The fluoride studies
were conducted with the same ethical mindset, in which "national security"
was paramount.
EVIDENCE OF FLUORIDE'S ADVERSE HEALTH EFFECTS
The US Government's conflict of interest and its motive to prove fluoride
safe in the furious debate over water fluoridation since the 1950s has only
now been made clear to the general public, let alone to civilian
researchers, health professionals and journalists. The declassified
documents resonate with a growing body of scientific evidence and a chorus
of questions about the health effects of fluoride in the environment.
Human exposure to fluoride has mushroomed since World War II, due not only
to fluoridated water and toothpaste but to environmental pollution by major
industries, from aluminium to pesticides, where fluoride is a critical
industrial chemical as well as a waste by-product.
The impact can be seen literally in the smiles of our children. Large
numbers (up to 80 per cent in some cities) of young Americans now have
dental fluorosis, the first visible sign of excessive fluoride exposure
according to the US National Research Council. (The signs are whitish
flecks or spots, particularly on the front teeth, or dark spots or stripes
in more severe cases.)
Less known to the public is that fluoride also accumulates in bones. "The
teeth are windows to what's happening in the bones," explained Paul
Connett, Professor of Chemistry at St Lawrence University, New York, to
these reporters. In recent years, paediatric bone specialists have
expressed alarm about an increase in stress fractures among young people in
the US. Connett and other scientists are concerned that fluoride-linked to
bone damage in studies since the 1930s-may be a contributing factor.
The declassified documents add urgency: much of the original 'proof ' that
low-dose fluoride is safe for children's bones came from US bomb program
scientists, according to this investigation.
Now, researchers who have reviewed these declassified documents fear that
Cold War national security considerations may have prevented objective
scientific evaluation of vital public health questions concerning fluoride.
"Information was buried," concludes Dr Phyllis Mullenix, former head of
toxicology at Forsyth Dental Center in Boston and now a critic of
fluoridation. Animal studies which Mullenix and co-workers conducted at
Forsyth in the early 1990s indicated that fluoride was a powerful central
nervous system (CNS) toxin and might adversely affect human brain
functioning even at low doses. (New epidemiological evidence from China
adds support, showing a correlation between low-dose fluoride exposure and
diminished IQ in children.) Mullenix's results were published in 1995 in a
reputable peer-reviewed scientific journal.2
During her investigation, Mullenix was astonished to discover there had
been virtually no previous US studies of fluoride's effects on the human
brain. Then, her application for a grant to continue her CNS research was
turned down by the US National Institutes of Health (NIH), when an NIH
panel flatly told her that "fluoride does not have central nervous system
effects".
Declassified documents of the US atomic bomb program indicate otherwise. A
Manhattan Project memorandum of 29 April 1944 states: "Clinical evidence
suggests that uranium hexafluoride may have a rather marked central nervous
system effect... It seems most likely that the F [code for fluoride]
component rather than the T [code for uranium] is the causative factor."
The memo, from a captain in the medical corps, is stamped SECRET and is
addressed to Colonel Stafford Warren, head of the Manhattan Project's
Medical Section. Colonel Warren is asked to approve a program of animal
research on CNS effects. "Since work with these compounds is essential, it
will be necessary to know in advance what mental effects may occur after
exposure... This is important not only to protect a given individual, but
also to prevent a confused workman from injuring others by improperly
performing his duties."
On the same day, Colonel Warren approved the CNS research program. This was
in 1944, at the height of World War II and the US nation's race to build
the world's first atomic bomb.
For research on fluoride's CNS effects to be approved at such a momentous
time, the supporting evidence set forth in the proposal forwarded along
with the memo must have been persuasive. The proposal, however, is missing
from the files at the US National Archives. "If you find the memos but the
document they refer to is missing, it's probably still classified," said
Charles Reeves, chief librarian at the Atlanta branch of the US National
Archives and Records Administration where the memos were found. Similarly,
no results of the Manhattan Project's fluoride CNS research could be found
in the files.
After reviewing the memos, Mullenix declared herself "flabbergasted".
"How
could I be told by NIH that fluoride has no central nervous system effects,
when these documents were sitting there all the time?" She reasons that the
Manhattan Project did do fluoride CNS studies: "That kind of warning, that
fluoride workers might be a danger to the bomb program by improperly
performing their duties-I can't imagine that would be ignored." But she
suggests that the results were buried because of the difficult legal and
public relations problems they might create for the government.
The author of the 1944 CNS research proposal attached to the 29 April memo
was Dr Harold C. Hodge-at the time, chief of fluoride toxicology studies
for the University of Rochester division of the Manhattan Project.
Nearly 50 years later at the Forsyth Dental Center in Boston, Dr Mullenix
was introduced to a gently ambling elderly man, brought in to serve as a
consultant on her CNS research. This man was Harold C. Hodge. By then,
Hodge had achieved status emeritus as a world authority on fluoride safety.
"But even though he was supposed to be helping me," said Mullenix, "he
never once mentioned the CNS work he had done for the Manhattan Project."
The "black hole" in fluoride CNS research since the days of the Manhattan
Project is unacceptable to Mullenix who refuses to abandon the issue.
"There is so much fluoride exposure now, and we simply do not know what it
is doing. You can't just walk away from this."
Dr Antonio Noronha, an NIH scientific review advisor familiar with Dr
Mullenix's grant request, told us that her proposal was rejected by a
scientific peer-review group. He termed her claim of institutional bias
against fluoride CNS research "far-fetched". He then added: "We strive very
hard at NIH to make sure politics does not enter the picture." \
THE NEW JERSEY FLUORIDE POLLUTION INCIDENT
The documentary trail begins at the height of World War II, in 1944, when a
severe pollution incident occurred downwind of the E.I. DuPont de Nemours
Company chemical factory in Deepwater, New Jersey. The factory was then
producing millions of pounds of fluoride for the Manhattan Project whose
scientists were racing to produce the world's first atomic bomb.
The farms downwind in Gloucester and Salem counties were famous for their
high-quality produce. Their peaches went directly to the Waldorf Astoria
Hotel in New York City; their tomatoes were bought up by Campbell's Soup.
But in the summer of 1944 the farmers began reporting that their crops were
blighted: "Something is burning up the peach crops around here." They said
that poultry died after an all-night thunderstorm, and that farm workers
who ate produce they'd picked would sometimes vomit all night and into the
next day.
"I remember our horses looked sick and were too stiff to work," Mildred
Giordano, a teenager at the time, told these reporters. Some cows were so
crippled that they could not stand up; they could only graze by crawling on
their bellies.
The account was confirmed in taped interviews with Philip Sadtler (shortly
before he died), of Sadtler Laboratories of Philadelphia, one of the
nation's oldest chemical consulting firms. Sadtler had personally conducted
the initial investigation of the damage.
Although the farmers did not know it, the attention of the Manhattan
Project and the federal government was rivetted on the New Jersey incident,
according to once-secret documents obtained by these reporters.
A memo, dated 27 August 1945, from Manhattan Project chief Major-General
Leslie R. Groves to the Commanding General of Army Service Forces at the
Pentagon, concerns the investigation of crop damage at Lower Penns Neck,
New Jersey. It states: "At the request of the Secretary of War, the
Department of Agriculture has agreed to cooperate in investigating
complaints of crop damage attributed...to fumes from a plant operated in
connection with the Manhattan Project."
After the war's end, Dr Harold C. Hodge, the Manhattan Project's chief of
fluoride toxicology studies, worriedly wrote in a secret memo (1 March
1946) to his boss, Colonel Stafford L. Warren, chief of the Medical
Section, about "problems associated with the question of fluoride
contamination of the atmosphere in a certain section of New Jersey".
"There seem to be four distinct (though related) problems:
"1. A question of injury of the peach crop in 1944.
"2. A report of extraordinary fluoride content of vegetables grown in this
area.
"3. A report of abnormally high fluoride content in the blood of human
individuals residing in this area.
"4. A report raising the question of serious poisoning of horses and cattle
in this area."
FLUORIDE DAMAGE: THE FIRST LAWSUITS
The New Jersey farmers waited until the war was over before suing DuPont
and the Manhattan Project for fluoride damage-reportedly the first lawsuits
against the US atomic bomb program. Although seemingly trivial, the
lawsuits shook the government, the secret documents reveal.
Under the personal direction of Major-General Groves, secret meetings were
convened in Washington, with compulsory attendance by scores of scientists
and officials from the US War Department, the Manhattan Project, the Food
and Drug Administration, the Agriculture and Justice departments, the US
Army's Chemical Warfare Service and Edgewood Arsenal, the Bureau of
Standards, as well as lawyers from DuPont. Declassified memos of the
meetings reveal a secret mobilisation of the full forces of the government
to defeat the New Jersey farmers.
In a memo (2 May 1946) copied to General Groves, Manhattan Project Lt
Colonel Cooper B. Rhodes notes that these agencies "are making scientific
investigations to obtain evidence which may be used to protect the interest
of the Government at the trial of the suits brought by owners of peach
orchards in...New Jersey".
Regarding these lawsuits, General Groves wrote to the Chairman of the
Senate Special Committee on Atomic Energy in a memo of 28 February 1946,
advising that "the Department of Justice is cooperating in the defense of
these suits".
Why the national security emergency over a few lawsuits by New Jersey
farmers? In 1946 the United States began full-scale production of atomic
bombs. No other nation had yet tested a nuclear weapon, and the A-bomb was
seen as crucial for US leadership of the postwar world. The New Jersey
fluoride lawsuits were a serious roadblock to that strategy. "The specter
of endless lawsuits haunted the military," wrote Lansing Lamont in Day of
Trinity, his acclaimed book about the first atomic bomb test.3
"If the farmers won, it would open the door to further suits which might
impede the bomb program's ability to use fluoride," commented Jacqueline
Kittrell, a Tennessee public interest lawyer who examined the declassified
fluoride documents. (Kittrell specialises in nuclear-related litigation and
has represented plaintiffs in several human radiation experiment cases.)
"The reports of human injury were especially threatening because of the
potential for enormous settlements-not to mention the PR problem," she
added.
Indeed, DuPont was particularly concerned about the "possible psychologic
reaction" to the New Jersey pollution incident, according to a secret
Manhattan Project memo of 1 March 1946. Facing a threat from the Food and
Drug Administration (FDA) to embargo the region's produce because of "high
fluoride content", DuPont dispatched its lawyers to the FDA offices in
Washington, DC, where an agitated meeting ensued. According to a memo sent
next day to General Groves, DuPont's lawyer argued that "in view of the
pending suits...any action by the Food and Drug Administration...would have
a serious effect on the DuPont Company and would create a bad public
relations situation". After the meeting adjourned, Manhattan Project
Captain John Davies approached the FDA's Food Division chief and "impressed
upon Dr White the substantial interest which the Government had in claims
which might arise as a result of action which might be taken by the Food
and Drug Administration".
There was no embargo. Instead, according to General Groves' memo of 27
August 1946, new tests for fluoride in the New Jersey area were to be
conducted not by the Department of Agriculture but by the US Army's
Chemical Warfare Service (CWS)-because "work done by the Chemical Warfare
Service would carry the greatest weight as evidence if...lawsuits are
started by the complainants".
Meanwhile, the public relations problem remained unresolved: local citizens
were in a panic about fluoride. The farmers' spokesman, Willard B. Kille,
was personally invited to dine with General Groves (then known as "the man
who built the atomic bomb") at his office at the War Department on 26 March
1946. Although diagnosed by his doctor as having fluoride poisoning, Kille
departed the luncheon convinced of the government's good faith. Next day he
wrote to the general, expressing his wish that the other farmers could have
been present so that "they too could come away with the feeling that their
interests in this particular matter were being safeguarded by men of the
very highest type whose integrity they could not question".
A broader solution to the public relations problem was suggested by
Manhattan Project chief fluoride toxicologist Harold C. Hodge in a second
secret memo (1 May 1946) to Medical Section chief Colonel Warren: "Would
there be any use in making attempts to counteract the local fear of
fluoride on the part of residents of Salem and Gloucester counties through
lectures on F toxicology and perhaps the usefulness of F in tooth health?"
Such lectures were indeed given, not only to New Jersey citizens but to the
rest of the nation throughout the Cold War.
The New Jersey farmers' lawsuits were ultimately stymied by the
government's refusal to reveal the key piece of information that would have
settled the case: how much fluoride DuPont had vented into the atmosphere
during the war. "Disclosure would be injurious to the military security of
the United States," Manhattan Project Major C. A. Taney, Jr, had written in
a memo soon after the war's end (24 September 1945).
The farmers were pacified with token financial settlements, according to
interviews with descendants still living in the area.
"All we knew is that DuPont released some chemical that burned up all the
peach trees around here," recalled Angelo Giordano whose father James was
one of the original plaintiffs. "The trees were no good after that, so we
had to give up on the peaches." Their horses and cows acted and walked
stiffly, recalled his sister Mildred. "Could any of that have been the
fluoride?" she asked. (The symptoms she detailed are cardinal signs of
fluoride toxicity, according to veterinary toxicologists.) The Giordano
family has also been plagued by bone and joint problems, Mildred added.
Recalling the settlement received by the family, Angelo Giordano told these
reporters that his father said he "got about $200".
The farmers were stonewalled in their search for information about
fluoride's effects on their health, and their complaints have long since
been forgotten. But they unknowingly left their imprint on history: their
complaints of injury to their health reverberated through the corridors of
power in Washington and triggered intensive, secret, bomb program research
on the health effects of fluoride.
"PROGRAM F": SECRET FLUORIDE RESEARCH
A secret memo (2 May 1946) to General Groves from Manhattan Project Lt
Colonel Rhodes states: "Because of complaints that animals and humans have
been injured by hydrogen fluoride fumes in [the New Jersey] area, although
there are no pending suits involving such claims, the University of
Rochester is conducting experiments to determine the toxic effect of
fluoride."
Much of the proof of fluoride's alleged safety in low doses rests on the
postwar work done at the University of Rochester in anticipation of
lawsuits against the bomb program for human injury.
For the top-secret Manhattan Project to delegate fluoride safety studies to
the University of Rochester was not surprising. During WWII the US Federal
Government became involved for the first time in large-scale funding of
scientific research at government-owned labs and private colleges. Those
early spending priorities were shaped by the nation's often-secret military
needs.
The prestigious upstate New York college in particular had housed a key
wartime division of the Manhattan Project to study the health effects of
the new "special materials" such as uranium, plutonium, beryllium and
fluoride which were being used in making the atomic bomb. That work
continued after the war, with millions of dollars flowing from the
Manhattan Project and its successor organisation, the Atomic Energy
Commission (AEC). (Indeed, the bomb left an indelible imprint on all of US
science in the late 1940s and 1950s. Up to 90 per cent of all federal funds
for university research came from either the Department of Defense or the
AEC in this period, according to Noam Chomsky in his 1997 book, The Cold
War and the University.4)
The University of Rochester Medical School became a revolving door for
senior bomb-program scientists. The postwar faculty included Stafford
Warren, the top medical officer of the Manhattan Project, and Harold C.
Hodge, chief of fluoride research for the bomb program.
But this marriage of military secrecy and medical science bore deformed
offspring. The University of Rochester's classified fluoride studies,
code-named "Program F", were started during the war and continued up until
the early 1950s. They were conducted at its Atomic Energy Project (AEP), a
top-secret facility funded by the AEC and housed at Strong Memorial
Hospital. It was there that one of the most notorious human radiation
experiments of the Cold War took place, in which unsuspecting hospital
patients were injected with toxic doses of radioactive plutonium.
Revelation of this experiment-in a Pulitzer Prize&endash;winning account by
Eileen Welsome-led to a 1995 US presidential investigation and a
multimillion-dollar cash settlement for victims.
Program F was not about children's teeth. It grew directly out of
litigation against the bomb program, and its main purpose was to furnish
scientific ammunition which the government and its nuclear contractors
could use to defeat lawsuits for human injury. Program F's director was
none other than Dr Harold C. Hodge- who led the Manhattan Project
investigation of alleged human injury in the New Jersey fluoride pollution
incident.
Program F's purpose is spelled out in a classified 1948 report. It reads:
"To supply evidence useful in the litigation arising from an alleged loss
of a fruit crop several years ago, a number of problems have been opened.
Since excessive blood-fluoride levels were reported in human residents of
the same area, our principal effort has been devoted to describing the
relationship of blood fluorides to toxic effects."
The litigation referred to and the claims of human injury were of course
against the bomb program and its contractors. Thus the purpose of Program F
was to obtain evidence useful in litigation against the bomb program. The
research was being conducted by the defendants.
The potential conflict of interest is clear. If lower dose ranges were
found hazardous by Program F, this might have opened the bomb program and
its contractors to public outcry and lawsuits for injury to human health.
Lawyer Jacqueline Kittrell commented further: "This and other documents
indicate that the University of Rochester's fluoride research grew out of
the New Jersey lawsuits and was performed in anticipation of lawsuits
against the bomb program for human injury. Studies undertaken for
litigation purposes by the defendants would not be considered
scientifically acceptable today because of their inherent bias to prove the
chemical safe."
Unfortunately, much of the proof of fluoride's safety rests on the work
performed by Program F scientists at the University of Rochester. During
the postwar period, that university emerged as the leading academic centre
for establishing the safety of fluoride as well as its effectiveness in
reducing tooth decay, according to Rochester Dental School spokesperson
William H. Bowen, MD. The key figure in this research, Bowen said, was Dr
Harold C. Hodge-who also became a leading national proponent of
fluoridating public drinking water.
THE A-BOMB AND WATER FLUORIDATION
Program F's interest in water fluoridation was not just "to counteract the
local fear of fluoride on the part of residents", as Hodge had earlier
written to Colonel Warren. The bomb program required human studies of
fluoride's effects, just as it needed human studies of plutonium's effects.
Adding fluoride to public water supplies provided one opportunity.
Bomb-program scientists played a prominent, if unpublicised, role in the
nation's first-planned water fluoridation experiment in Newburgh, New York.
The Newburgh Demonstration Project is considered the most extensive study
of the health effects of fluoridation, supplying much of the evidence that
low doses are allegedly safe for children's bones and good for their teeth.
Planning began in 1943 with the appointment of a special New York State
Health Department committee to study the advisability of adding fluoride to
Newburgh's drinking water. The chairman of the committee was, again, Dr
Harold C. Hodge, then chief of fluoride toxicity studies for the Manhattan
Project. Subsequent members of the committee included Henry L. Barnett, a
captain in the Project's Medical Section, and John W. Fertig, in 1944 with
the Office of Scientific Research and Development-the super-secret Pentagon
group which sired the Manhattan Project. Their military affiliations were
kept secret. Hodge was described as a pharmacologist, Barnett as a
paediatrician. Placed in charge of the Newburgh project was David B. Ast,
chief dental officer of the New York State Health Department. Ast had
participated in a key secret wartime conference on fluoride, held by the
Manhattan Project in January 1944, and later worked with Dr Hodge on the
Project's investigation of human injury in the New Jersey incident,
according to once-secret memos.
The committee recommended that Newburgh be fluoridated. It selected the
types of medical studies to be done, and it also "provided expert guidance"
for the duration of the experiment.
The key question to be answered was: "Are there any cumulative effects,
beneficial or otherwise, on tissues and organs other than the teeth, of
long-continued ingestion of such small concentrations?" According to the
declassified documents, this was also key information sought by the bomb
program. In fact, the program would require "long-continued" exposure of
workers and communities to fluoride throughout the Cold War.
In May 1945, Newburgh's water was fluoridated, and over the next 10 years
its residents were studied by the New York State Health Department.
In tandem, Program F conducted its own secret studies, focusing on the
amounts of fluoride Newburgh citizens retained in their blood and
tissues-information called for by the bomb program in connection with
litigation. "Possible toxic effects of fluoride were in the forefront of
consideration," the advisory committee stated. Health department personnel
cooperated, shipping blood and placenta samples to the Program F team at
the University of Rochester. The samples were collected by Dr David B.
Overton, the department's chief of paediatric studies at Newburgh.
The final report of the Newburgh Demonstration Project, published in 1956
in the Journal of the American Dental Association,5 concluded that "small
concentrations" of fluoride were safe for US citizens. The biological
proof, "based on work performed...at the University of Rochester Atomic
Energy Project", was delivered by Dr Hodge.
Today, news that scientists from the A-bomb program secretly shaped and
guided the Newburgh fluoridation experiment and studied the citizens' blood
and tissue samples is greeted with incredulity.
"I'm shocked...beyond words," said present-day Newburgh Mayor Audrey Carey,
commenting on these reporters' findings. "It reminds me of the Tuskegee
experiment that was done on syphilis patients down in Alabama."
As a child in the early 1950s, Mayor Carey was taken to the old Newburgh
firehouse on Broadway which housed the public health clinic. There, doctors
from the Newburgh fluoridation project studied her teeth, and a peculiar
fusion of two fingerbones on her left hand which she's had since birth.
(Carey said that her granddaughter has white dental-fluorosis marks on her
front teeth.)
Mayor Carey wants answers from the government about the secret history of
fluoride and the Newburgh fluoridation experiment. "I absolutely want to
pursue it," she said. "It is appalling to do any kind of experimentation
and study without people's knowledge and permission."
When contacted by these reporters, the now 95-year-old David B. Ast, former
director of the Newburgh experiment, said he was unaware that Manhattan
Project scientists were involved. "If I had known, I would have been
certainly investigating why, and what the connection was," he said. Did he
know that blood and placenta samples from Newburgh were being sent to
bomb-program researchers at the University of Rochester? "I was not aware
of it," Ast replied. Did he recall participating in the Manhattan Project's
secret wartime conference on fluoride in January 1944, or going to New
Jersey with Dr Hodge to investigate human injury in the DuPont case, as
secret memos state? He told these reporters he had no recollection of any
such events.
Bob Loeb, a spokesperson for the University of Rochester Medical Center,
confirmed that blood and tissue samples from Newburgh had been tested by
the University's Dr Hodge. On the ethics of secretly studying US citizens
to obtain information useful in litigation against the A-bomb program, he
said: "That's a question we cannot answer." He referred inquiries to the US
Department of Energy (DOE), successor to the Atomic Energy Commission.
Jayne Brady, a spokesperson for the Department of Energy in Washington
confirmed that a review of DOE files indicated that a "significant reason"
for fluoride experiments conducted at the University of Rochester after the
war was "impending litigation between the DuPont company and residents of
New Jersey areas". However, she added: "DOE has found no documents to
indicate that fluoride research was done to protect the Manhattan Project
or its contractors from lawsuits."
On Manhattan Project involvement in Newburgh, Brady stated: "Nothing that
we have suggests that the DOE or predecessor agencies-especially the
Manhattan Project-authorised fluoride experiments to be performed on
children in the 1940s."
When told that these reporters have several documents that directly tie the
AEP-the Manhattan Project's successor agency at the University of
Rochester-to the Newburgh experiment, DOE spokesperson Brady later conceded
her study was confined to "the available universe" of documents.
Two days later, Brady faxed a statement for clarification. "My search only
involved the documents that we collected as part of our human radiation
experiments project; fluoride was not part of our research effort."
"Most significantly," the statement continued, "relevant documents may
be
in a classified collection at the DOE Oak Ridge National Laboratory, known
as the Records Holding Task Group. This collection consists entirely of
classified documents removed from other files for the purpose of classified
document accountability many years ago [and was] a rich source of documents
for the human radiation experiments projects."
SUPPRESSION OF ADVERSE HEALTH FINDINGS
The crucial question arising from the investigation is whether adverse
health findings from Newburgh and other bomb-program fluoride studies were
suppressed. All AEC-funded studies had to be declassified before
publication in civilian medical and dental journals. Where are the original
classified versions?
The transcript of one of the major secret scientific conferences of World
War II-on "fluoride metabolism"-is missing from the files of the US
National Archives and is "probably still classified", according to the
librarian. Participants in the January 1944 conference included key figures
who promoted the safety of fluoride and water fluoridation to the public
after the war: Harold Hodge of the Manhattan Project, David B. Ast of the
Newburgh Demonstration Project, and US Public Health Service dentist H.
Trendley Dean, popularly known as "the father of fluoridation".
A WWII Manhattan Project c lassified report (25 July 1944) on water
fluoridation is missing from the files of the University of Rochester
Atomic Energy Project, the US National Archives, and the Nuclear Repository
at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. The next four numerically
consecutive documents are also missing, while the remainder of the "M-1500
series" is present.
"Either those documents are still classified, or they've been 'disappeared'
by the government," said Clifford Honicker, Executive Director of the
American Environmental Health Studies Project in Knoxville, Tennessee,
which provided key evidence in the public exposure and prosecution of US
human radiation experiments.
Seven pages have been cut out of a 1947 Rochester bomb project notebook
entitled "DuPont Litigation". "Most unusual," commented the medical
school's chief archivist, Chris Hoolihan.
Similarly, Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests lodged by these
reporters over a year ago with the DOE for hundreds of classified fluoride
reports have failed to dislodge any. "We're behind," explained Amy
Rothrock, chief FOIA officer at Oak Ridge National Laboratories.
So, has information been suppressed? These reporters made what appears to
be the first discovery of the original classified version of a fluoride
safety study by bomb program scientists. A censored version of this study
was later published in the August 1948 Journal of the American Dental
Association.6 Comparison of the secret version with the published version
indicates that the US AEC did censor damaging information on fluoride-to
the point of tragicomedy. This was a study of the dental and physical
health of workers in a factory producing fluoride for the A-bomb program;
it was conducted by a team of dentists from the Manhattan Project.
Ñ The secret version reports that most of the men had no teeth left. The
published version reports only that the men had fewer cavities.
Ñ The secret version says the men had to wear rubber boots because the
fluoride fumes disintegrated the nails in their shoes. The published
version does not mention this.
Ñ The secret version says the fluoride may have acted similarly on the
men's teeth, contributing to their toothlessness. The published version
omits this statement and concludes that "the men were unusually healthy,
judged from both a medical and dental point of view".
After comparing the secret and published versions of the censored study,
toxicologist Phyllis Mullenix commented: "This makes me ashamed to be a
scientist." Of other Cold War&endash;era fluoride safety studies, she
asked: "Were they all done like this?"
Asked for comment on the early links of the Manhattan Project to water
fluoridation, Dr Harold Slavkin, Director of the National Institute for
Dental Research-the US agency which today funds fluoride research-said: "I
wasn't aware of any input from the Atomic Energy Commission." Nevertheless,
he insisted that fluoride's efficacy and safety in the prevention of dental
cavities over the last 50 years is well proved. "The motivation of a
scientist is often different from the outcome," he reflected. "I do not
hold a prejudice about where the knowledge comes from."
Endnotes:
1. Dale, Peter P., and McCauley, H. B, "Dental Conditions in Workers
Chronically Exposed to Dilute and Anhydrous Hydrofluoric Acid", Journal of
the American Dental Association, vol. 37, no. 2, August 1948, pp. 131-140.
Note that Dale and McCauley were both Manhattan Project and, later, Program
F personnel; they also authored the secret Manhattan Project paper.
2. Mullenix, Phyllis et al., "Neurotoxicity of Sodium Fluoride in Rats",
Neurotoxicology and Teratology, vol. 17, no. 2, 1995, pp. 169-177.
3. Lamont, Lansing, Day of Trinity, Atheneum, New York City, 1965.
4. Chomsky, Noam, The Cold War and the University, New Press, New York
City, 1997 (distributed by W.W. Norton & Co. Inc., NYC).
5. Hodge, H. C., "Fluoride metabolism: its significance in water
fluoridation", in "Newburgh-Kingston caries-fluorine study: final report",
Journal of the American Dental Association, vol. 52, March 1956.
6. Dale and McCauley, ibid.
About the Authors:
Joel Griffiths is a medical writer based in New York City. He is the author
of a book on radiation hazards that included one of the first revelations
of human radiation experiments, and has contributed numerous articles to
medical journals and popular publications.
Chris Bryson, who holds a Master's degree in journalism, is an independent
reporter for BBC Radio, ABC-TV and public television in New York City, and
writes for a variety of publications.
The authors wish to thank Clifford Honicker, Executive Director of the
American Environmental Health Studies Project, Knoxville, TN, for his
indispensable archival research.
Resources:
Copies of 155 pages of supporting documents, including all the declassified
papers referred to in this article, can be obtained from the following
contacts for a small fee to cover copying and postage:
Ñ Australia: Australian Fluoridation News, GPO Box 935G, Melbourne,
Victoria 3001, phone (03) 9592 5088, fax (03) 9592 4544.
Ñ New Zealand: New Zealand Pure Water Association, 278 Dickson Road,
Papamoa, Bay of Plenty, phone (07) 542 0499.
Ñ UK: National Pure Water Association of the UK, 12 Dennington Lane,
Crigglestone, Wakefield, WF4 3ET, phone 01924 254433, fax 01924 242380.
Ñ USA: Waste Not newsletter, 82 Judson Street, Canton, NY 13617, phone
(315) 379 9200, fax (315) 379 0448, e-mail wastenot@northnet.org .
FLUORIDE: A PROTECTED POLLUTANT
Since 1937, the foreign medical literature has contained hundreds of
articles on the wide variety of troubles that can be caused by fluorine.
The same is true of the veterinary literature in this country.
But none of this appears in our medical literature. The things that
fluorine can do to people are seen every day everywhere. The trouble
is to know which cases are actually caused by fluorine.
http://www.cadvision.com/fluoride/exner.htm
American Dental Association. Fluoridation Facts. Chicago
FLUORIDE TOXICITY
There are many reported cases of fluorosis, a mottling (dark brown/gray
staining and spotting of teeth) and crumbling of teeth due to too much
flouride placed in municipal water supplies. A warning to parents of small
children: if children eat large globs of toothpaste while brushing their
teeth, stop the habit immediately, and place small amounts of toothpaste
on a child's toothbrush. Teach the child not to swallow the toothpaste.
http://www.its.ilstu.edu/fcs106/fluoride.htm
EPA - HYDROGEN FLUORIDE (AND RELATED COMPOUNDS) (1) 7664-39-3
Chronic (long-term) exposure to fluoride at low levels has a beneficial
effect of dental cavity prevention and may also be useful for the treatment
of osteoporosis. Exposure to higher levels of fluoride through drinking
water may cause dental fluorosis or mottling, while very high exposures
through drinking water or air can result in skeletal fluorosis.
http://www.epa.gov/ttn/uatw/hlthef/hydrogen.html
Fluoride the Aging Factor
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Subject: [MC] About Scientific Information!
Date: Mon, 3 Aug 1998 23:32:07 -0700
From: "Stephen A. Tueting" whimpy.com@worldnet.att.net
Unbelievably fabulous expose on the history and technologies involved.
The ability to transmit from one brain to another is there. See the
medical journal Electroencephalography and Clinical Neurophysiology, 1996,
Suppl. 45. "Continuous Wave-Form Analysis". It's another piece of
deciphering the brains EEG and translating to a different persons EEG
and then writing it to that brain.
This is a brilliant piece of literature and extremely accurate.
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Fluoridation / Fluoride
Toxic Chemicals In Your Water
Fluoride compounds which are put in water (fluoridation), toothpaste and supplement
tablets (including some vitamins) were never tested for safety before approval.
http://www.holisticmed.com/fluoride/
FLUORIDE REALITY
Fluoride ingestion has very little to do with dental health, it does have a lot to do with
disposing of industrial waste and making people docile and subservient, it also has a lot
to do with MONEY.
Clearly, the dental profession would not and HAS not put itself out of business.
http://www.webaxs.net/~noel/fluoride.htm
Respected Medical Professionals and Scientists
are warning that water fluoridation
has dangerous long-term consequences to health.
http://www.nofluoride.com/
TOXIC SECRETS
Fluoride & the A-Bomb Program
During the ultra-secret Manhattan Project, a report was commissioned to assess the effect
of fluoride on humans. That report was classified "secret" for reasons of
"national security".
http://www.nexusmagazine.com//fluoridebomb.html
Could it be possible to finally get this deadly poison out of our lives?
Let's all get behind this push for exposure of Fluoride's negative side effects on the
living.
Officer Jack McLamb, ret.
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Tuesday, August 09, 2005 9:39 PM
Subject: FW: Action Alert: 11 EPA unions request immediate moratorium and full
Congressional hearing on fluoridation
From: NYSCOF@aol.com
To: NYSCOF@aol.com
Sent: Friday, August 05, 2005 2:10 PM
Subject: Urgent Request From Bill Hirzy
In a message dated 8/5/2005 1:50:20 P.M.
Eastern Standard Time, whirzy@american.edu
writes:
Dear Friends,
Now is the time, more than ever. I'm attaching copies of the letters that are going
to EPA Administrator Johnson and Congress. For the first time we have 11 - that's ELEVEN
- EPA unions signing on to a request for a moratorium (from Congress), pending a
full hearing, and for EPA to start the process of declaring fluoride a carcinogen.
What is needed urgently is for the network(s)
[that's us folks] to activate and getting people to call
their 2 Senators and Representative to follow up on our unions' call for a moratorium.
I don't think its worthwhile to bug EPA . We [the unions] need to work that internally between
the unions and management. Just get to Congress.
It is VITAL that political pressure be brought to bear on Congress from
constituents. When the fluoridistas get wind of our action, you can bet they will
be in those Congressional offices pushing their agenda and trying to denigrate our unions'
actions , and we need to have tons of people calling and writing to second the
call our unions have made. Without constituent pressure, Congress will not
respond in our favor without massive constituent
support. If they were to grant the moratorium on just the word of a
bunch of Civil Service folks it won't win them any votes directly. So
people who live in their districts and states [that's us
folks] and who are able to vote for or against them need to be the ones
stepping up to the plate now.
The EPA unions have done what we can do, and for eleven to join in is really something (*emails to me that
I can forward to those who signed on would be great) - now its up to the citizens [you and me] who want this nonsense stopped, to once more exert themselves and support our
call to stop fluoridation until a full
hearing is held.
J. William Hirzy
Chemist in Residence
Phone: 202-885-1780
----- Original Message ----- Sent: Saturday, August 06, 2005 12:05 PM
Subject: Action Alert: 11 EPA unions request immediate moratorium and
full Congressional hearing on fluoridation
Hopefully this is a duplication of a request you have received from others.
Please do not hesitate to send this on to others as well, despite further possibility of
duplication. It is that important.
This is a request for your immediate action that can result in a
major impact on public perceptions and support for a more transparent focus on the
available science on fluoridation, and federal government intervention to stop this
insanity.
For those of you have not followed the recent reports in more than 80
newspapers, including the Wall Street Journal and the Washington Post,
some of the nation's major media have added to their coverage of NIH
scientists having unreported financial links with industry, by boldly reporting
the attempted cover-up of recent science showing dramatic increases in bone cancer in
young males due to fluoride exposures, and the Environmental Work Group's call
for an immediate investigation.
For those of you who have difficulty opening attachments, I have included
the texts of the two letters from the 11 EPA Unions to Congress and EPA, and slightly
modified the action alert formatted by Lynne Campbell below. I urge your immediate
attention, and the support of EPA employees who have once again placed themselves on the
firing line to stop this absurdity and affront to ethics in science:
New developments in the bone cancer/fluoridation flap (see
http://www.fluoridealert.org/news/2323.html) give us an opportunity to effect change at
the national level. Read on.
A coalition of eleven EPA unions, representing "a substantial
portion of the [EPA's] nation-wide work force," have written Congress and EPA on
August 5, 2005 asking for the following:
1) That Congress immediately place a moratorium on fluoridation to
"remain in place" until a full Congressional hearing "on the wisdom
of continuing the practice is concluded."
2) That EPA's administrator, Stephen Johnson, "direct the Office
of Water to issue an Advanced Notice of Proposed Rulemaking setting the maximum
contaminant level goal for fluoride at zero" based on the likelihood that it is a
carcinogen. {This would effectively end the practice of water fluoridation.}
Attached are copies of the EPA unions' letters sent to Mr. Johnson and to Senator Tom
Harkin.
THE UNIONS NEED OUR HELP
Now that the unions have taken such an important step, they urgently need our
support. They ask that we immediately contact our two federal senators and
representative to echo their request for a moratorium and hearing (and that we ask others
to do the same).
In an email to safe water organizations, NTEU 280's Dr. Bill Hirzy writes, "It is
VITAL that political pressure be brought to bear on Congress from constituents. When
the fluoridistas get wind of our action, you can bet they will be in those Congressional
offices pushing their agenda and trying to denigrate our unions' actions, and we need to
have tons of people calling and writing to second the call our unions have made."
He continues, "The EPA unions have done what we can do...now its up to
the citizens who want this nonsense stopped to once more exert themselves and support our
call to stop it until a full hearing is held."
CONGRESSIONAL CONTACT INFORMATION
Here is a link to access the addresses, email and telephone contact for your
Senators and Congressional Representative:
http://www.congress.org/congressorg/home/
SAMPLE TELEPHONE and/or EMAIL MESSAGE:I am one of your constituents concerned about
nationally publicized research linking water fluoridation to bone cancer in young
males. I understand that eleven EPA unions are calling for an immediate moratorium
on fluoridation and a full Congressional hearing into this and other studies showing
adverse health effects. Because of the unavoidable exposure due to publicly
fluoridated water's contribution to our dietary sources, even if a person chooses to drink
bottled water, this issue is crucial to my health and the health of the nation, and I urge
your support for both the moratorium and hearing.
KEEP US INFORMEDLet us know you've written by sending us a blind copy of your email, or an
email note from you letting us know who and when you called (and possibly their response).
Email us at: greenjeff@cox.net
Letter from 11 EPA unions to their Agency
Administrator
August 5, 2005
RE: Bone Cancer-Fluoride Link
Hon. Stephen L. Johnson, Administrator
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Dear Administrator Johnson:
We, the undersigned representatives of a
majority (eleven) of EPA's employee unions, are requesting that you direct the
Office of Water to issue an Advanced Notice of Proposed Rulemaking setting the maximum
contaminant level goal for fluoride at zero, in accordance with Agency policy for all
likely or known human carcinogens. Our request is based on the overall weight of the
evidence supporting the classification of fluoride as a human carcinogen, including new
information from Harvard on the link between fluoride in drinking water and osteosarcoma
in boys that was conveyed to you in a meeting with union officials on May 4, 2005.
We appreciate that the Agency anticipates a report next year from the National Research
Council on the propriety of its current drinking water standards for fluoride. But it
seems highly inappropriate for EPA to do nothing now that it is in possession of this
science, while millions of young boys continue to be exposed unwittingly to the elevated
risk of a fatal bone cancer as the Agency waits for the NRC to issue its report, then for
the report to undergo peer review, and then for the Agency to undertake its own
deliberations.
By issuing an Advanced Notice of Proposed
Rulemaking the Agency would inform the public and local health authorities about the
results of the doctoral dissertation from the Harvard School of Dental Medicine by Elise
Bassin without committing the Agency to a formal rulemaking until all those other steps
are taken.
It is noteworthy that when industry becomes aware of important new scientific findings
like this, it has (depending on the specific statute) a very brief time to notify EPA. The
Agency is then expected to take timely and appropriate action based on the specifics of
that notification. In the present case EPA is aware of important new, high quality
evidence of potentially serious danger to young boys drinking fluoridated water, and we
believe EPA has an ethical duty to send an effective warning immediately about this
hazard.
It may in fact be appropriate for you to direct EPA's Office of Criminal Enforcement to
investigate why Dr. Bassin's study, which was of sufficient quality for her to earn her
doctoral degree, remained hidden from EPA for four years. Alternatively, you could request
that the Department of Justice undertake the investigation.
As you know, the apparent cover up of the link between water fluoridation and a seven-fold
increased risk of osteosarcoma in young boys, shown by the research of Dr. Bassin, is now
national news. Major newspapers, including the Washington Post and the Wall Street Journal
have covered the story. The Environmental Working Group has petitioned the National
Toxicology Program to classify fluoride as a human carcinogen based in part on Dr.
Bassin's work. (We recommend EWG's petition as a succinct and authoritative overview of
the total weight of peer-reviewed evidence supporting the classification of fluoride as a
human carcinogen.) EWG has also caused an investigation of the cover up to be
started by Harvard and NIEHS, which funded the research.
The eyes of the nation are on the federal
science establishment because of a host of scientific integrity issues. Former EPA
Assistant Administrator Lynn Goldman and Roni Neff have just published a paper in the
American Journal of Public Health on the cost of delayed adoption of health-protective
standards that illuminates the real public health costs of the government's failure to act
on sound scientific evidence.
We believe our Agency can make an important statement about its commitment to scientific
integrity and its application to public health protection by taking the precautionary
action we are recommending.
We at EPA can be ahead of the curve on this important issue or behind it. We do not think
the latter choice is in the best interest of the public, the Civil Service or EPA, and we
fervently and respectfully hope that you will agree with us. As a wise man once
said, "The science is what the science is."
We will be happy to discuss this with you and
your advisers at your convenience.
Sincerely,
Dwight A. Welch, President
NTEU Chapter 280
EPA Headquarters
J. William Hirzy, Vice-President
NTEU Chapter 280
EPA Headquarters
/s/Steve Shapiro, President
AFGE local 3331
EPA Headquarters
/s/Paul Sacker, President
AFGE Local 3911
Region 2 Office, New York
/s/Larry Penley. President
NTEU Chapter 279
EPA Cincinnati Laboratory
/s/Nancy Barron, President
NAGE Local R5-55
Region 4 Office, Atlanta
/s/Wendell Smith, President
ESC/IFPTE Local 20
Region 9 Office, San Francisco
/s/Patrick Chan, President
NTEU Chapter 295
Region 9 Office, San Francisco
/s/Henry Burrell, President
AFGE Local 3428
Region 1 Office, Boston
/s/Alan Hollis, President
AFGE Local 3611
Region 3 Office, Philadelphia
/s/Frank Beck, President
AFGE Local 2900
Ada Laboratory
/s/Mark Coryell, President
AFGE Local 3907
Ann Arbor Laboratory
cc:
Sen. James Inhofe
Sen. Mike Enzi
Sen. Saxby Chambliss
Sen. Ted Stevens
Sen. James Jeffords
Sen. Edward Kennedy
Sen. Tom Harkin
Sen. Daniel Inouye
Rep. Joe Barton
Rep. Sherwood Boehlert
Rep. Paul Gillmor
Rep. Nathan Deal
Rep. Henry Waxman
Rep. John Dingell
Rep. Bart Gordon
Rep. Hilda Solis
Rep. Sherrod Brown
Letter from 11 EPA Unions to Senator Tom Harkin
Coalition of U.S. Environmental Protection
Agency Unions
August 5, 2005
RE: Bone Cancer-Fluoridation Cover-Up
Hon. Tom Harkin, Ranking Member
Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry
SR-328A Russell Senate Office Building
Washington, D.C. 20510-6000
Dear Senator Harkin:
Our unions represent a substantial portion of the nation-wide workforce at the U.S.
Environmental Protection Agency, and we are writing to ask for a moratorium on the
national program of the U.S. Public Health Service to fluoridate all of America's public
water supplies.
One us us (Dr. Hirzy, of NTEU Chapter 280) testified before the Subcommittee on Wildlife,
Fisheries and Water of the Senate on June 29, 2000 on this subject on behalf of his
headquarters union. At that time the union called for a moratorium based on science
indicating a number of adverse health effects and out-of-control, excessive exposures to
fluoride.
We now join NTEU Chapter 280 in renewing the call for a moratorium, based on startling and
disturbing new information that confirms the worst fears expressed in the earlier
testimony.
Work done at Harvard College's School of Dental Medicine by Dr. Elise Bassin, which has
been hidden since 2001, shows that pre-adolescent boys who drink fluoridated water are at
a seven-fold increased risk of osteosarcoma, an often fatal bone cancer. We ask that the
moratorium take effect immediately and remain in place until a full hearing by the
Congress on the wisdom of continuing the practice is concluded. The last such hearing was
in 1978.
Dr. Bassin's work, done as her doctoral thesis, was completed and accepted by Harvard in
partial fulfillment of the requirements for her Ph.D. in 2001. It is a landmark
investigation of age-specific exposure of young people in a case-control epidemiology
study of the incidence of osteosarcoma. The thesis remained sequestered until 2004, when
her research adviser, Chester Douglass, inexplicably reported to the funding agency, the
National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, that no connection was found between
fluoride and osteosarcoma. This discrepancy between Chester Douglass' written report and
the actual findings of the funded study is under investigation by several entities, and we
believe should be looked into by the Congress as well. It appears to be yet another
instance of federally funded science gone awry to protect special interests. Chester
Douglass edits Colgate Company's Oral Health Report.
Chapter three of Dr. Bassin's work (enclosed) cites the impressive weight of convergent
evidence for the carcinogenicity of fluoride in young boys (but not girls): fluoride
is a mitogen, increasing the rate of cell division; it has been shown to be mutagenic,
damaging chromosomal structure; it accumulates primarily in bone, site of the cancer;
several previous epidemiology studies have found heretofore unexplained increases in
osteosarcoma in young men (but not young women); a National Toxicology Program animal
study found statistically significant increases in osteosarcomas in male (but not female)
rats. And she discusses why several other epidemiology studies found no association
between fluoridation and osteosarcoma; principally, those studies did not consider
age-specific exposures and development of the cancer.
It is simply unconscionable that her federally funded work was hidden for four years while
millions of young boys continued to be exposed to increased risk of this disease, whose
best outcome involves amputation. Several federal statutes express Congressional intent
regarding timely warning about such risks. These include, for example, the Toxic
Substances Control Act, section 8(e) and the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide and
Rodenticide Act section 6(a)(2). We believe another area for Congressional investigation
is: who knew about the results of Dr. Bassin's work besides herself and Chester
Douglass? and was any federal statute violated by keeping those results hidden for
four years?
Another reason for a Congressional review of fluoridation is the recent work of Dr.
Richard Maas of the Environmental Quality Institute, University of North
Carolina-Ashville, which shows that use of chloramine disinfectant and silicofluoride
fluoridating agents with excess ammonia increases lead concentrations in public water
supplies. This may explain at least some of the increased lead levels seen in the District
of Columbia's water supplies and in the blood of children drinking water fluoridated with
silicofluorides. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says that ninety four
percent of fluoridated water systems use silicofluorides.
Dr. Hirzy is available to meet with your staff to pursue this matter, and we hope that you
will find it of sufficient concern to initiate a full investigation of fluoridation, which
we believe is long overdue.
Sincerely,
Dwight A. Welch, President
NTEU Chapter 280
EPA Headquarters
J. William Hirzy, Vice-President
NTEU Chapter 280
EPA Headquarters
/s/Steve Shapiro, President
AFGE local 3331
EPA Headquarters
/s/Paul Sacker, President
AFGE Local 3911
Region 2 Office, New York
/s/Larry Penley. President
NTEU Chapter 279
EPA Cincinnati Laboratory
/s/Nancy Barron, President
NAGE Local R5-55
Region 4 Office, Atlanta
/s/Wendell Smith, President
ESC/IFPTE Local 20
Region 9 Office, San Francisco
/s/Patrick Chan, President
NTEU Chapter 295
Region 9 Office, San Francisco
/s/Henry Burrell, President
AFGE Local 3428
Region 1 Office, Boston
/s/Alan Hollis, President
AFGE Local 3611
Region 3 Office, Philadelphia
/s/Frank Beck, President
AFGE Local 2900
Ada Laboratory
/s/Mark Coryell, President
AFGE Local 3907
Ann Arbor laboratory
cc: Hon. Stephen L. Johnson, Administrator U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Fluoride
Follies
by Donald W. Miller, Jr., MD
by
Donald W. Miller, Jr., MD
 The federal government’s Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the American Dental Association (ADA) are holding
a symposium in Chicago this week titled: "National Fluoridation Symposium 2005:
Celebrating 60 Years of Water Fluoridation" (July 13–16). The CDC ranks
fluoridation of community drinking water as one of the ten most significant public health
achievements of the 20th century.
No speaker at this symposium will
dare question the safety or efficacy of fluoride. That is now a given and has become
dogma. But like in 1968 when protests against the Vietnam War were held in the Windy City
outside the Democratic National Convention, this week protesters have assembled in
Chicago to fight fluoridation.
Fluoridation of community drinking
water began in Grand Rapids, Michigan on January 12, 1945. It was the brainchild of two
people who worked for Andrew W. Mellon, founder of the Aluminum Company of America
(ALCOA), Drs. H. Trendley Dean and Gerald J. Cox. Mellon was US Treasury Secretary, which
made him (at that time, in 1930) head of the Public Health Service (PHS). He had Dean, a
researcher at the PHS, study the effects of naturally fluoridated water on teeth. Dean
confirmed that fluoride causes mottling (discoloration) of teeth, and he hypothesized that
it also prevents cavities. Cox, a researcher at the Mellon Institute in Pittsburgh, was
urged to study the effect of fluoride on tooth-decay in rats. Determining that it had a
beneficial effect, he proposed, in late 1939, that the US should fluoridate its public
water supply.
Fluorine is a halogen, like
chlorine and iodine. It is the smallest and most reactive element in the halogen family
(elements with 7 electrons in their outer shell). Fluorine exists in nature attached to
other elements as the negatively charged ion fluoride, most notably to hydrogen, calcium,
sodium, aluminum, sulfur, and silicon. Sodium fluoride, a by-product of aluminum smelting,
initially was used to fluoridate water. Silicofluorides (fluoride combined with silicon),
wastes of phosphate fertilizer production, are now used almost exclusively for
fluoridation. Fluorine is also present in compounds called organofluorines, where fluorine
atoms (not fluoride anions) are tightly bound to carbon. Teflon
(poly-tetra-fluoro-ethylene), Gore-Tex, and many drugs, Prozac (fluoxetine), Cipro
(ciprofloxacin), and Baycol (cerivastatin) among them, are organofluorines.
Doctors and public health officials
did not think sodium fluoride, used commercially as a rat and bug poison, fungicide, and
wood preservative, should be put in public water. The Journal of the American Dental
Association said (in 1936), "Fluoride at the 1 ppm [part per million]
concentration is as toxic as arsenic and lead… There is an increasing volume of
evidence of the injurious effects of fluorine, especially the chronic intoxication
resulting from the ingestion of minute amounts of fluorine over long periods of
time." And the Journal of the American Medical Association" noted (in its
September 18, 1943 issue), "Fluorides are general protoplasmic poisons, changing the
permeability of the cell membrane by certain enzymes." But, as Joel Griffiths and
Chris Bryson reveal in "Fluoride,
Teeth, and the Atomic Bomb," and Bryson in his book The Fluoride
Deception, officials in the Manhattan Project persuaded health policy makers and
medical and dental leaders, in the interests of national security, to do an about-face and
join the fluoridation bandwagon.
Vast amounts of fluoride were
required to build the atom bomb. Fluoride combines with uranium to form the gas uranium
hexafluoride, which, when passed through a semi permeable membrane, separates bomb-grade,
fissionable uranium-235 from the much more abundant and stable uranium-238. This done,
fluoride is released into the environment as waste. (During the Cold War millions of tons
of fluoride were used in the manufacture of bomb-grade uranium and plutonium for nuclear
weapons.) Also, large amounts of fluoride were generated in producing aluminum required
for warplanes.
With several instances already on
record of fluoride causing damage to crops, livestock, and people downwind from industrial
plants, government and industry, lead by officials running the Manhattan Project, sought
to put a new, friendlier face on fluoride. This would dampen public concerns over fluoride
emissions and help forestall potentially crippling litigation. Instead of being seen as
the poison it is, people should view fluoride as a nutrient, which gives smiling children
shiny teeth, as epitomized in the jingle that calls fluoride "nature’s way to
prevent tooth decay."
It worked. Early epidemiological
studies showed a 50 to 70 percent reduction in dental cavities in children who drank
fluoridated water. These studies, however, were poorly designed. None were blinded, so
dentists examining children for caries would know which kind of water they were drinking.
Data gathering methods were shoddy. By today’s evidence-based medicine standards
these studies do not provide reliable evidence that fluoride does indeed prevent cavities.
Based on these studies and its
promotion, municipalities across the country started adding fluoride to their water
supply. Within 15 years a majority of Americans were washing their clothes, watering their
vegetable gardens, bathing with, and drinking fluoridated water.
On its 60th anniversary
proponents still have not proved that the hypothesis fluoride [put in public water]
prevents cavities and is perfectly safe is true. The first part of the hypothesis, at
least, has biological plausibility. Fluoride prevents cavities by combining with calcium
in dental enamel to form fluoroapetite, which increases the resistance of teeth to acid
demineralization. And fluoride inactivates bacteria that damage teeth by interfering with
their enzymes. But biological plausibility alone is not sufficient to prove efficacy.
Epidemiological evidence is required to do that. A debate open to well-informed opponents
of fluoridation, if the CDC and ADA ever agreed to hold one, would show that existing
epidemiological evidence does not prove that fluoride prevents cavities.
In evidence-based medicine,
systematic reviews (meta-analyses) are considered to be the best, most
"scientific" evidence. A systematic
review of water fluoridation studies, published in the British Medical Journal in
2000, found, as the chair
of the Advisory Group that commissioned the review puts it, "The review did not show
water fluoridation to be safe. The quality of the research was too poor to establish with
confidence whether or not there are potentially important adverse effects in addition to
the high levels of [dental] fluorosis." He adds, "The review team was surprised
that in spite of the large number of studies carried out over several decades there is a
dearth of reliable evidence with which to inform policy." The case for
fluoride does not stand up to careful evidence-based scrutiny.
Evidence that "fluoride
[put in public water] does not prevent cavities and is not safe"
(the null hypothesis) is more convincing. If a court of law held a trial on
fluoride’s safety and efficacy, the anti-fluoridationists would win. The judgment in
their favor would most likely be beyond a reasonable doubt, or at least on a more likely
than not basis. In a courtroom the pro-fluoridationists would not be permitted to employ
ad hominem attacks that focus on the character of the opposing witness instead of the
evidence, and dogmatic assertions on the safety and efficacy of fluoride would be subject
to cross examination.
Proponents of fluoridation will not
willingly admit they are wrong. As Tolstoy puts it, "Most men can seldom accept even
the simplest and most obvious truth if it would oblige them to admit the falsity of
conclusions which they have delighted in explaining to colleagues, have proudly taught to
others, and have woven thread by thread into the fabric of their lives."
There are exceptions. Two prominent
leaders of the pro-fluoridation movement willingly admitted publicly (in 1997 and 2000)
that they were wrong. One was the late John Colquhoun, DDS, Principal Dental Officer for
Auckland, New Zealand and chair of that country’s Fluoridation Promotion Committee.
He reviewed New Zealand’s dental statistics in an effort to convince skeptics that
fluoridation was beneficial and found that tooth decay rates were the same in fluoridated
and nonfluoridated places, which prompted him to re-examine the classic fluoridation
studies. He recanted his support for it in "Why I Changed my Mind About
Water Fluoridation" (Perspectives in Biology and Medicine 1997;41:29–44).
The other is Dr. Hardy Limeback, PhD, DDS, Head of Preventive Dentistry at University of
Toronto. His reasons are given in "Why I am Now Officially Opposed to Adding
Fluoride to Drinking Water." Another former pro-fluoridationist that is fighting fluoride in Canada,
and elsewhere, is Richard G. Foulkes, MD, a health care administrator and former assistant
professor in the Department of Health Care and Epidemiology at the University of British
Columbia.
Chlorine is added to water to kill
bacteria. Chlorination (begun in 1908) has eradicated typhoid fever and cholera, two
water-borne diseases that used to kill thousands of Americans each year. Chlorine is a
disinfectant. Fluoride is a medication, which the state requires all people to consume
because government officials believe it is good for a segment of the population. The
putative benefit of this medication is for children age 5 to 12 (when enamel for their
permanent teeth is being formed). This age group drinks 0.01 percent of the water people
use.
This is how the CDC justifies compulsory
fluoridation: "Although other fluoride-containing products are available [e.g.,
toothpaste], water fluoridation remains the more equitable and cost-effective method of
delivering fluoride to all members of most communities, regardless of age, educational
attainment, or income level." Fluoridation, therefore, addresses social inequalities
and fosters social justice. It provides fluoride to poor families without their having to
buy (fluoride) toothpaste and make their children brush their teeth with it. The common
good takes priority over individual freedom to choose to not take this medication. This
communitarian ethic increasingly governs US public health policy. One of the goals of the
government’s Healthy People 2010
initiative (Objective 21-9) is to "increase the proportion of the U.S. population
served by community water systems with optimally fluoridated water [the target: 75
percent]."
Murray Rothbard (in an article written in 1992)
describes water fluoridation as "ALCOA-socialism," arising from "an
alliance of three major forces: ideological social democrats, ambitious technocratic
bureaucrats, and Big Businessmen seeking privileges from the state." It is a legacy
of war, with its call for aluminum and enriched uranium, and the New Deal.
Fluoridation is an especially
destructive type of socialism because fluoride is a poison. It is the 13th most
common element and one of the most toxic elements in the earth’s crust. It is an
insidious poison that produces serious multisystem effects on a long-term basis.
Fluoride disrupts enzymes (by
altering their hydrogen bonds) and prevents them from doing their job of making proteins,
collagen in particular, the structural protein for bone and teeth, ligaments, tendons, and
muscles. It damages DNA repair enzymes and inhibits the enzyme acetylcholinesterase in the
brain, which is involved in transmitting signals along nerve cells. All cells in the body
depend on enzymes. Consequently, fluoride can have widespread deleterious effects in
multiple organ systems. One researcher has uncovered 113
ailments that fluoride is said to cause.
 The first visible sign of fluoride poisoning is dental fluorosis. It begins as
small white specks in the enamel that then turn into spots, become confluent, and, in its
most severe stage, turn brown. Dental fluorosis of varying degree affects 20 to 80 percent
of children who grow up drinking fluoridated water. Moderate to severe changes, with brown
mottling, occurs in 3 percent
of children. Dental fluorosis is an indicator of fluoride toxicity in other parts of the
body. Like in growing teeth, fluoride accumulates in the brain. One manifestation of
"brain fluorosis" in children could be this: Researchers (in China) have found that
children living in an area where the water has high fluoride content (4.12 ppm) have IQ
scores that are 6 to 12 points lower than children living in a low fluoride district (the
difference in IQ scores, at p <0.02, is statistically significant).
Fluoride has a particular affinity
for calcium and thus for bone; and it poisons bones the same way it does teeth. The
average American living in a fluoridated community now ingests 8 mg of fluoride a day.
Unlike teeth where the enamel, once formed, remains static, 10 percent of bone tissue is
broken down and replaced annually, giving fluoride an opportunity to steadily accumulate
year-after-year in bones. People who consume 10–25 mg of fluoride a day over 10 to 20
years, or 2mg/day over 40 years, will develop skeletal fluorosis. The first
manifestations of this disease, before there are any changes on x-ray, are joint pains and
arthritic symptoms, which are indistinguishable from osteoarthritis and rheumatoid
arthritis; muscle weakness; chronic fatigue; and gastrointestinal disorders. In the next
stage, osteoporosis develops and bones become more brittle and weak, making them prone to
fracture. (The third and final stage, crippling fluorosis, occurs mainly in India where
the natural fluoride content of the water is high.)
There is an epidemic of arthritis,
osteoporosis, hip fractures, and chronic fatigue syndrome in the United States. Could
fluoride be causing this epidemic? It turns out that even people who live in
nonfluoridated areas consume a lot of fluoride, on average 4 mg/day. It is in toothpaste;
in fruit juices, soda pop, tea, and processed foods; and, unfortunately, in California
wines, whose grapes are sprayed with the pesticide cyrolite (sodium aluminum fluoride).
American physicians know little or nothing about skeletal fluorosis, and the early,
arthritic stages of this disease mimic other bone and joint diseases. It is a hypothesis
worth testing.
Studies show that the rates of bone
cancer are substantially higher in fluoridated areas, particularly in boys. Other cancers,
of the head and neck, GI tract, pancreas, and lungs, have a 10 percent higher incidence.
Fluoride affects the thyroid gland and causes hypothyroidism, which is also an
increasingly frequent disorder in the US. Other studies show that high levels of fluoride
in drinking water are associated with birth defects and early infant mortality.
Fluoride also damages the brain,
both directly and indirectly. Rats given fluoridated water at a dose of 4 ppm develop
symptoms resembling attention deficit-hyperactivity disorder. High concentrations of
fluoride accumulate in the pineal gland, which produces serotonin and melatonin. Young
girls who drink fluoridated water reach puberty six months earlier than those who drink
unfluoridated water, which is thought to be a result of reduced melatonin production.
People with Alzheimer’s disease have high levels of aluminum in their brains.
Fluoride combines with aluminum in drinking water and takes it through the blood-brain
barrier into the brain. Dr. Russell Blaylock, MD, a neurosurgeon, spells out in chilling
detail the danger fluoride poses to one’s brain and health in general in his book Health and
Nutrition Secrets that can Save Your Life (2002).
Try to avoid fluoride, in all its
guises. It is not an element the body needs or requires, even in trace amounts. There are no
known naturally occurring compounds of fluorine in the human body.
Live in a nonfluoridated community.
If that is not possible, drink distilled water or tap water passed through a filter that
can remove fluoride (a third method using an activated alumina absorbent is not practical
because of its expense). Regular activated carbon filters do not work because the diameter
of a fluoride anion (0.064 nm) is smaller than the pore size of the filter. It requires a
reverse osmosis filter. (Living in a fluoridated area, my family uses a table top reverse
osmosis filter that we purchased online.)
Distilled water has been given a bad rap by some health writers, which is not deserved
(see "Blowing the Lid off Distilled
Water Myths"). Distillation units are relatively inexpensive.
Fluoride is readily absorbed
through the skin (and inhaled). Two-thirds of the fluoride we take into our bodies using
fluoridated public water comes from bathing and wearing clothes washed in it. Drinking
fluoride-free water in a fluoridated district only reduces fluoride intake by about a
third.
One of the greatest public health
advances in the 21st century will be removing fluoride from public water
supplies. This "important public health measure" is a Potemkin Village – an
impressive façade that hides undesirable facts. In this village, the US Surgeon General,
the Czar, in this case, tells visiting dignitaries that "Community water fluoridation
benefits everyone," and "There is no credible evidence that fluoridation is
harmful." This has given fluoride a protected pollutant status for 60 years when the
stark fact is that this substance is slowly poisoning us.
In addition to being contaminated
with trace amounts of arsenic, beryllium, mercury, and lead, silicofluorides
(hexafluorosilicic acid [H2SiF6] and its sodium salt
hexafluorosilicate [Na2SiF6]) carry lead through the intestine into
the body. These are the compounds that, untested, now are used to fluoridate water. Lead
interferes with the neurotransmitter dopamine, which controls impulsive and violent
behavior; and studies show that lead pollution is linked to higher rates of violent crime.
The average violent crime rate in US counties that have lead pollution is 56 percent
higher when their drinking water is fluoridated, as reported in "A Moratorium on Silicofluoride
Usage will Save $$Millions (Fluoride 2005;38:1–5). School shootings occur
ten times more frequently in fluoridated communities, as Jay Seavey points out in "Water Fluoridation and Crime
in America (Fluoride 2005;38:11–22).
Antifluoridationists weaken their
case by mistakenly putting florine-carbon organofluorines in the same category as fluoride
anions, as Joel Kauffman, a chemist, points
out. The fluorine in these compounds is not dangerous (Teflon heated continuously at
500° F does not release any fluoride.) Policy makers will be better able to deal with
fluoridation of water alone and ban it when organic (carbon-based) fluorine compounds are
removed from consideration.
The day will come when fluoridation
of community drinking water will suffer the same fate as blood letting. Used for over a
millennium to treat disease, it was abandoned three centuries ago.
Recommended Reading:
 | "Water Fluoridation: a Review of Recent
Research and Actions," by Joel M. Kauffman, PhD. Published last month in the
peer-reviewed Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons, this well-considered,
succinct, up-to-date review would be Exhibit A in a trial against fluoridation. The author
brought to my attention the distinction between inorganic fluoride anion and organically
carbon-bound fluorine. (J Am Phys Surg 2005;10:38–44.)
|
| "Fluoridation of Water," by Bette
Hileman. Published in Chemical and Engineering News in 1988, this "Special
Report" by an associate editor of the journal examines the fundamental issues and
specifics of fluoridation, which scientists, policy makers, and the public must confront.
It shows that the fluoride controversy is much more serious than most people at the time,
including scientists, realized. This seminal article gives important examples of how data
on fluoride’s adverse effects are withheld from the public. (August 1, 1988 C&EN,
p. 26–42, with links to the article’s four sidebars and to 39 letters
published in C&EN about it, including one from Surgeon General C. Everett
Koop.) |
| "Fluoride: Commie Plot or
Capitalistic Ploy," by Joel Griffiths. Originally published in Covert Action
Quarterly in 1992, this article, with a photo of Capt. Jack Ripper in Dr.
Strangelove saying, "Have you ever seen a commie drink a glass of water?,"
is another classic on the subject. |
| Fluoride:
Drinking Ourselves to Death? by Barry Groves (2001) This thoroughly
researched and well written book refutes, one by one, answers the British Fluoridation
Society told UK dentists to give to (32) questions people might ask them about Fluoride
– questions like "Is fluoridated water safe?" and "Is it true that
there is enough fluoride in a tube of toothpaste to kill a small child?" (The BFS
answer to the toothpaste one is: "Used sensibly, fluoride toothpaste presents no
risks to children.") |
| "50 Reasons to Oppose Fluoridation"
by Paul Connett. There are, indeed, 50 reasons. Written by the Executive Director of the
organization that held the protest in Chicago. |
| The
Fluoride Deception< | |
