Professor A.K. Susheela
Critics cite studies claiming to have identified a number of possible negative associations of fluoridation, including bone cancer in boys, bladder cancer, hypothyroidism, hip fractures and lower IQ in children.
I would remind you to notice where the claim of consensus is invoked. Consensus is invoked only in situations where the science is not solid enough. Nobody says the consensus of scientists agrees that E=mc2. Nobody says the consensus is that the sun is 93 million miles away. It would never occur to anyone to speak that way.
Michael Crichton
Even Chemical and Engineering News noted in 1999:
According to Edward Groth III, an associate technical director of Consumers Union who wrote his Ph.D. thesis in biology on the fluoridation controversy in 1973, pro- and antifluoridationists approach the issue from completely different perspectives. “Proponents see it as a simple public health measure, effective and safe, which they need to ‘sell’ to the public, almost like a box of soap.
In other words, the U.S. government apparently hired the leading propagandist to create the myth that fluoride is safe and effective in order to protect its bomb-making program.
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VERY interesting data!
ReplyDeleteMy city buys water from the City of Seattle... voters in the 60's approved/required fluoridation. Now, ALL surrounding cities which buy from that source (which is most) - and had no voice in the vote - are also fluoridated.
I grew up with un-fluoridated water, and didn't have any cavities until going off to Seattle for college... I've been writing that off to bad changes in diet and higher levels of stress.
I stopped using fluoridated toothpaste to lower my fluoride intake a year or two ago. Since then, my teeth have been just fine - and my skin has improved a LOT - my acne has FINALLY healed and not returned (98%, anyway). Apparently over-doses of fluoride is a well known cause of facial acne. Google "Fluoroderma" and all sorts of info pops up.