EPA Scientist: Water Fluoridation Greatest Scientific Fraud of Century
July 21, 2010 by Statesman Sentinel · 5 Comments
By Rebecca Noel
Our Interesting World
The dangers of fluoride have been well known in the alternative health arena for decades but unfortunately the general public en masse has been basically indoctrinated into believing fluoride prevents cavities and is something good for them…
It’s been hard for anyone to oppose the propaganda given about fluoride. Many people who speak out against fluoride are losing their jobs and being ostracized by their colleagues. With this in mind, it is no wonder that more people aren’t speaking out. Currently, any doctor or dentist who opposes fluoridation would run the risk of losing their license to practice medicine or dentistry.
But more and more people are starting to speak out regardless of job security including the EPA’s own scientists! Bravo to these brave men who have listened to their conscience and can no longer participate in the great lie that is poisoning so many innocent people!
For over 60 years the subject of fluoride has been a big controversy. How fluoride got approved started back in the 1940’s with an aluminum company called ALCOA (aluminum company of America). This company was facing problems with toxic waste. One of the byproducts of aluminum manufacture is sodium fluoride.
Because of its toxicity, it must be disposed of in the highest rated waste disposal facility. This would be at a tremendous cost. In 1944, a long time ALCOA lawyer named Oscar Ewing was named the company’s chief counsel with fees in the then astronomical range of $750,000 a year. In 1947, Ewing was made Federal Security Agency Administrator, with the announcement that he was taking a big cut in salary.
The US Public Health Service, then a division of FSA, came under command of Ewing, and he began to vigorously promote fluoridation nationwide. Ewing’s public relations strategist for the fluoride campaign was the nephew of Sigmund Freud, Edward L. Bernays. This was the man who literally wrote the book on propaganda….and I don’t mean figuratively. In 1928 Bernays published a book entitled: “Propaganda”, in which he describes how the human mind can be manipulated.
This book was recently republished in 2004. It is interesting to note that Bernays was also involved in the promotion of cigarettes. To this day it is not exactly clear how ALCOA garnered the support of the American Medical and Dental Association; however, there may have been other factors involved.
These factors may have involved the fact that mass quantities of fluoride were produced in the production of the atomic bomb. In fact the first litigation over the atomic bomb had nothing to do with radiation….it was fluoride poisoning that caused ill health. It was these factors that may have led to the need to put a friendlier face on fluoride.
It is also noteworthy that fluoridation began at the time of World War II. This was a time when aluminum production was being increased to provide for the production of airplanes and other military needs. It is theorized that this increased need for aluminum production may have paved the way for fluoride’s acceptance.
It is also interesting to note that prior to 1940 fluoride was considered a toxic element. In fact in 1939 the U.S. Public Health Service regulations state “the presence of fluorides in excess of 1ppm shall constitute rejection of the water supply”….yet when water fluoridation is instituted these days the levels are set at a minimum of 1ppm.
In fact, an article appearing in the Journal of American Medical Association on September 18, 1943 states, “fluorides are general protoplasmic poisons, changing the permeability of the cell membrane by inhibiting certain enzymes”.
In fact, before 1940, fluoride’s only approved use was as a rat and cockroach poison. In smaller doses, it was approved for use as a treatment for an overactive thyroid gland but this use was abandoned after many patients suffered destruction of their thyroid gland.
I'm not surprised. the more i learn about how the American system works with corruption as it's fuel the more I see that everything is not what it seems
Indeed, the corporatist state masquerading as a free society has caused a lot of harm.
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This is a bogus article! The dates and information on fluoride before WWII are certainly incorrect. The dentists in Colorado Springs, Colorado, were involved in the problem around 1920. In fact, they finally began to realize that the water supply in Colo Springs and Manitau Springs had a high incidence of fluoride in the culinary water system, and by giving the children a bottled water supply to cut the fluorosis, or deep discoloration, out of emerging permanent dentition the teeth would look more normal. At that time the accepted treatment of gray teeth was to use a solution of hydrochloric acid and then utilize a poor substitute by today's standards of zinc phosphate anterior filling materials.
There has always been a group of unbelievers in preventive dental care. Fortunately, today many more scientific studies have proven the effectiveness of fluorides in water supplies or the providing of fluoride tablets in low amounts to waters in non- fluoridated areas.
I would like you to cite the "scientific" studies to which you refer that prove effectiveness of water fluoridation, and more importantly, studies that confirm its safety. And what is in the springs is calcium fluoride, a naturally occurring mineral in water which, in small amounts, can be beneficial to health. Sodium fluoride is an industrial grade hazardous waste bi-product from the mining and fertilizer industries.
The studies that indicate neurological and other damage from ingesting sodium fluoride are voluminous. If you want to use fluoride to protect you teeth, it should be applied topically. You should not be ingesting it as it is a cumulative poison. Perhaps a reading of the warning on the back of your fluoridated toothpaste will remind you of this danger. Water fluoridation is medical quackery. And drugging the water supply is unethical no matter what you think about its effectiveness.
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