In article <89c4xAwZqcaL090yn at io.com> Lars Eighner wrote:
>Date: 8 Jul 1996 22:39:12 -0500
>From: eighner at io.com (Lars Eighner)
>Subject: Re: Fluoridation Scam
>>In our last episode <4rrvv1$374_002 at jun.ipgnet.com>,
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>The lovely and talented shockme at ipgnet.com (Shock Media) wrote:
>>>An article from the Shock Media July Issue
>>http://www.ipgnet.com/~jun/media/>>>>FLUORIDATION SCAM
>>>>``Fluoridation is the greatest case of scientific fraud
>>of this century, if not of all time.``
>>[R. Carton, PHD - former scientist with the US Environmental
>>Protection Agency (EPA)]
>>>Gotta conserve those precious bodily fluids, huh?
>
Unfortunately, when it comes to fluoridation, it seems most people
use the movies and commercials (look, ma - no cavities) as their
scientific evidence to support their beliefs.
You know, you can't believe everything you see in the movies or
on TV.
The fluoride that's added to water supplies is hydrofluosilicic
acid. It's a waste product of the phosphate fertilizer industry.
It contains trace amounts of contaminants like lead, according to
the American Water Works Association.
It's purpose in the late 1940's, when fluoridation started, was to
deliver l milligram of fluoride to children up to age nine so they
would have less tooth decay and not get any of fluoride's adverse
side effects like dental fluorosis (white, yellow or brown
permanently stained teeth).
So now over 60% of this country's water supplies are fluoridated
so is most of our food supply. Coupled with a glut of fluoride
products on the market, dentist report in their journals that
children have more dental fluorosis than ever.
Press releases issued from dental groups get printed verbatim
(without question) by mainstream media that claims fluoride
reduces tooth decay. However, there is no science to back that
up.
In fact, "Public Health Reports" (which is a government
publication of the Department of Health and Human Services),
reported in September of '95 that it's a myth that 50 percent of
U.S. schoolchildren have never had a cavity.
Using National Institutes of Dental Research studies, the author
says, "caries (cavities) is a serious problem even among some
groups of toddlers, that caries experience among young children
may not be declining and that caries experience among poulation
subgroups varies widely."
So, your taxes pay for an unnecessary pollutant to be added to an
increasingly contaminated water supply that many Americans avoid
by drinking bottled water. And it causes more adverse
effects than beneficial (if any). Remember fluoride isn't added
to treat the water. It's added to treat the people for a disease
they may or may not have. Fluoride is neither essential to life
nor is it a nutrient.
If you want to have a good time, go to the movies. If you want to
learn about fluoride, read some books.
More info can be accessed at:
http://www.santarosa.edu/~dmontgom/fluoride.htmhttp://emporium.turnpike.net/P/PDHA/health.htm
(no commie plot stuff here)
Carol S. Kopf
