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Professor Albert
W. Burgstahler said
it well:
"Throughout
history,
officially-promoted
viewpoints in
science have often
held sway for
remarkably long
periods of time. A
familiar example is
the Ptolemaic
geocentric view of
our solar system,
which was shown to
be incorrect but
was nevertheless
stoutly defended by
ruling
ecclesiastical
authority.
"Surprising as
it may seem, a
similar situation
prevails in science
policy even today.
For over fifty
years the United
States Public
Health Service,
with the
endorsement of
leading national
and international
dental and other
professional
organizations, has
insisted that the
levels of fluoride
ingested from water
fluoridation not
only significantly
reduce tooth decay
but are also
virtually without
any toxic effects
other than mild
dental mottling.
This view, however,
like that of
Ptolemy,
contradicts
available
scientific
evidence."
Authoritarianism
Versus Scientific
Evidence,
FLUORIDE, Vol. 31
No. 3 August 1998. |
| As
stated by the
Faculty of Medicine
and Dentistry at
the University of
Western Ontario,
"[The] incidence of
all forms of
Fluorosis is now
steeply on the rise
in the Western
World and is
recognized as a
major threat to
public and
ecosystem health in
the Developing
World. Dentists are
devoting more of
their treatment
time to Dental
Fluorosis, and
doctors are seeing
increasing numbers
of patients
suffering from what
may be Skeletal
and/or Systemic
Fluorosis. ...
Children are worth
special mention
with respect to
Fluorosis. With
less body mass and
decreased overall
metabolic capacity,
they are
particularly
susceptible to
Fluoride toxicity
as they undergo
critical stages of
rapid cell
reproduction and
differentiation.
UNICEF attributes
Fluorosis in 20
mostly Developing
World countries
around the globe to
toxic amounts of
Fluoride, primarily
in drinking water.
The United Nations
acknowledges
Fluorosis as a
major threat to
public health in
those
demographically
'youth-full'
countries where the
majority of the
world's population
lives." "Though
apparently vague
and non-specific,
most of the
symptoms of
Fluoride toxicity
point towards some
kind of profound
metabolic
dysfunction, and
are strikingly
similar to the
symptoms of
Hypothyroidism.
"... Humans
appear to vary
considerably with
respect to their
susceptibility to
Fluorosis. As a
general guideline,
prolonged total
Fluoride intake
exceeding 1.0
mg/day can produce
clinical signs of
Fluorosis in
adults."
There are no
developed
"non-fluoridated"
areas today. Even
in Grenada it can
be difficult to
find local fruits
and vegetables that
haven't been
contaminated with
fluoride from
modern agricultural
chemicals. Products
imported from other
countries, such as
ordinary black or
green tea;
breakfast cereals;
processed pork,
beef, and chicken;
grape or vegetable
juice, wines, etc.;
are almost certain
to provide
significant
quantities of
fluoride, as will
fluoride toothpaste
and "natural"
mineral
supplements.
Water
fluoridation -
whether natural or
artificial -
doesn't work and
isn't safe. From
the start, its
promotion relied on
fraudulent
abstracts prepared
by special
interests concerned
with economic and
national security
issues. It had
nothing to do with
improving dental
health. During the
1970s, when I
showed Michigan's
top fluoride expert
several dozen
examples of his own
industry funded
abstracts side by
side with the
original documents
they were supposed
to represent, he
said: "Look,
lady, if the
abstracts don't
agree with the
originals, there
must be something
wrong with the
originals."
In 1978 Michigan
became the first
state to repeal a
mandatory
fluoridation law.
In 1997 the
NAS/NRC Institute
of Medicine
published
fraudulent new
guidelines for the
adequate and
tolerable daily
intake of fluoride.
This too was
accomplished by
industry-funded
special interests
willing to
misrepresent their
own scientific
references. The
evidence can be
found in hundreds
of university
libraries.
More recently,
in March 2006
NAS/NRC published
their review of
EPA's regulations
for fluoride in
drinking water.
Although this
document
contradicts the
notion that
fluoride prevents
tooth decay without
any toxic effects
other than mild
dental fluorosis,
it does not apply
to "optimally"
fluoridated water,
and is not accurate
with regard to
current daily
dosage from sources
other than drinking
water.
Excerpts from
hundreds of
scientific
articles, reviews,
abstracts, books,
and other media
have been selected,
organized, and
linked to their
source - to help
make sense of the
contrast between
the pro- and the
anti-fluoridation
point of view.
excerpts tell who,
what, where, when,
and why
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George's
Grenada
West
Indies
1-473-416-5785
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