How We Got Fluoridated

How We Got Fluoridated

by Philip Heggen

Preface

Throughout the world, and from the beginning, virtually all living creatures have been exposed to fluoride. It's nothing new. Fluoride is one of the most abundant elements in the earth's crust - cumulative and toxic to all forms of life at remarkably low dosage.

Sixty years ago U.S. dental researchers had identified areas in sixteen states where disfiguring mottled enamel was a serious problem. Thirty years ago, the World Health Organization had noted that high concentrations of fluoride are found in areas of every continent and that dental fluorosis is a problem from Finland to South Africa and from England to Japan.

But fluoride affects more than just developing teeth. Even dinosaurs have ingested water and vegetation contaminated by fluoride from volcanic gases and ash - and suffered the consequence in terms of painful arthritic effects.

Industrial mining and manufacturing, like mini-volcanoes, bring up fluorides from the earth into the biosphere, with similar effects on human communities. In the past century or so, man has spawned these "mini-volcanoes" without fully understanding the consequences. Modern well-drilling equipment has provided much needed water from deep within the earth - and this, too, has resulted in fluoride poisoning.

Fluoridation has not been a conspiracy in the usual sense of the word ... but rather, a colossal blunder.

"The problem is enormous, unbelievable," says Andezhath Susheela of the Fluorosis Research and Rural Development Foundation in Delhi, India. She has been unraveling the national story for a decade during which time her estimate of the number of people leading "a painful and crippled life" from fluorosis has risen from one million to 25 million and now to 60 million - six million of them children - spread across tens of thousands of communities. "In some villages three-quarters of the population are seriously affected."

This paper is a chronicle and overview spanning the history of modern industry. It shows the rise of fluoride pollution and how economic motives have overridden concerns for human health. We take you back to the early metal refinery pollution in Europe and show the record of lawsuits for fluoride damage. This reveals the basis for American industry's fear of being shut down by lawsuits. We also document the steps taken by industry to divert public attention away from fluoride air pollution. This chronicle shows that the origin of water fluoridation is in these fluoride fears of industry -- not in concern for children's teeth.

During the 1940s, the development of the atom bomb required handling huge amounts of fluoride in the production of nuclear weapons. Documented here is a major safety study by the Atomic Energy Commission. As a result of this extensive study, the federal government became involved in the suppression of information about fluoride poisoning. Formerly restricted government documents now made available under the Freedom of Information Act have filled in blank spaces in this chronology.

Thus, both big government and big industry, for different reasons, became involved in the cover up. The succeeding collaboration of industry and government is documented below in detail.

The difficulties in maintaining a deception over an extended time are sizable. This is especially true with an ongoing issue like fluoridation. A compounding of dishonest statements and actions is required to maintain the original deception. At a certain point, the truth of the situation becomes obvious. These consequences are now coming to bear on the defenders of fluoridation. The Epilogue deals with this coming confrontation.

Introduction

From the 1991 Physicians' Desk Reference

The 1991 Physicians' Desk Reference cautions : "Dental Fluorosis [mottling] may result from exceeding the recommended dose. In hypersensitive individuals, fluorides occasionally cause skin eruptions such as atopic dermatitis, eczema or urticaria, gastric distress, headache, and weaknesshave also been reported. These hypersensitive reactions usually disappear promptly after discontinuation of the fluoride. In rare cases, a delay in the eruption of teeth has been reported."

I find it highly interesting that the very conditions that cause adverse reactions to the smallpox vaccine are due to fluoride.

Who Should NOT Receive the Smallpox Vaccine?

I understand that hydrogen oxide is poisonous if ingested in sufficient quantities.

For one, water is NOT scientifically referred to as "hydrogen oxide". It is not an oxide, but rather a true molecule, rather than a ionic formula unit. It has a valence bond versus a ionic bond.

Now that we've gone past that, you do realize that water is essential to life, right? That is in stark contrast to that which has NO nutrional value, as fluoride does not assist or aid in ANY celluar activity, rather it IMPEDES cellular activity in the way of neurotransmission and ion channel processes. It bonds with calcium in bones, causing skeletal fluorosis. It is lethal to small children in the amounts used in fluoride treatments. It has NO benefit, and is a highly reactive toxin. Do you see a bit of a difference here?

If I ate, drank, and breathed lead in sufficient quantities to cause detrimental effects to my person, I'd certainly be worried. But I don't. Neither do I eat, drink, or breath sufficient quantities of fluoride ions to negatively impact my life in any measurable way.

You obviously haven't read much of the information that I've provided either directly or that which I've linked.

The news and journal articles I have read, as well as the discussion on the JunkScience.com forum, tell me that I will never have to worry about such things. I'll look at some of your stuff, but only after I get a grounding in fact so I can detect the woo-woo factor if present.

Those who say that you NEED to ingest fluoride ARE the ones practicing JUNK SCIENCE. You really SHOULD read through the main article, there's a link to the rest of it titled, Introduction.

Clicking the above link will work just as well. The other two links provided in the remarks section are of extremely high value as well..

THEN, there's the rest of thread.

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