FLUORIDE-DATE LECTURE #4 - PROMOTING POISON
Good afternoon, Mr. Mayor Pro Tem and Council members. Today I want to recommend to you a very important book, The Fluoride Deception by Christopher Bryson. It’s available through amazon.com and it’s in the UT library. The Fluoride Deception tells the story of how we arrived at this strange situation where we add toxins to our water in the name of public health.
Now the story. It’s the late 1940’s and early ‘50’s. The nightmare of World War II is over, and America, the new superpower, is enjoying a period of unrivaled peacetime prosperity based on the steel and aluminum industries—both of which use deadly hazardous fluorides in their smelting process. The Cold War is on, and we’re stockpiling atomic weapons. That process requires fluoride too. Meanwhile, looming on the horizon are a rash of lawsuits brought by workers who suffered fluoride injury in the wartime plants and farmers downwind of those plants whose crops were devastated.
The captains of industry, threatened by potentially damaging revelations, counter with their own bold plan. They will use advertising to give fluoride a makeover—transforming it from poison into remedy. Then, they’ll persuade health officials in New York City to add it to their water. Who could question its safety after that?
They chose for the task this man—Edward Bernays—known as the “father of public relations,” who wrote a bestseller titled Propaganda. That should tell you something about him. The industrialists knew he’d be perfect for the job because of the spectacular success of one of his prior campaigns—persuading women to take up smoking. That’s right: the same man who got women smoking in 1929 has you drinking fluoride today.
Bernays was the nephew of this man—Sigmund Freud—and he knew his psychology. Realizing that people place their trust in experts, for instance, he employed doctors’ testimonials to sell cigarettes. He also pioneered branding. He branded fluoride “anti-cavity” without any evidence whatever, and the brand stuck. He was lavishly financed by industry and those top echelons of the dental establishment—e.g. dental schools and research laboratories—that depend heavily on industry for funding.
There was tremendous grassroots opposition initially, but it was no match for the tidal wave of money flowing into the pro-fluoridation coffers. In time, the resistance caved in and the history was forgotten. Today, over 50 years later, two thirds of America’s water is artificially fluoridated and a condition called dental fluorosis is endemic among children living in fluoridated areas. About that, more next time. Check out The Fluoride Deception. And read my blog. Thank you.
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Keep up the good work !!
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Thanks for this. It really helped me out!
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Cool,
So they now know that the flouride is not good for people yet they keep it in the water,
Thanks for writing, most people don't bother.
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I am really enjoying reading your articles. They are very well written and I know I am one of the worst. I am challenged when it comes to using the language correctly. I do know how to draw attention to a issue but not skillfully.
I had read most of the back round data before but not presented so well.
It still baffles me how this can be ignored with such aggressive desire for ignorance and harmful actions in any city. It is not like we are not in their faces. Smart logical business men and women sitting on commission just get stupid when health departments and dentists step up. Most newspapers do little but repeat talking points and attack the anti people. Thank god some allow both sides to speak. Some even are very anti fluoride in editorials.
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The same talking points of attacking anyone against fluoridation as anti science wacko radical putting children at risk is still effective. People like Michael Easley DDS are the attack dogs paid for by government tax dollars. Easley has his hand in many of the mandatory fluoridation actions. California passed mandatory fluoridation by laying low until the last few days and sneaking legislation before resistance could form. Transparency is avoided as deception and slight of hand is the norm. Try to get real responses from any health department people and discover cut and paste non answers that are policy statements only. Selmer Tn Mayor Robinson fought back and still has no real answers. Poughkeepsie NY asked 33 questions also and the health department ignored them for over a year after first saying they would respond. I have had that happen many times or they admit the studies are new to them. Most know almost nothing of the science but are experts of comic book simple talking points. They also know the list of endorsements as if that is proof science exists because of 60 year old endorsements.
Easley is different in that he verbally attacks the opposition. He is not one of the ignorant fools as is is smart and crafts his statements like a con man who has actually read the material.
This year in California he was quoted talking about anti fluoridation people."Nobody drags anyone to a water faucet and makes them drink. Dig a well. Move out of the country." This public servant seems to have pure contempt for the rights of the citizen to a right of informed consent. I asked the State of Florida where he now works to tell me if this was acceptable behavior. They said this was taken out of context. I asked what possible context would be proper. They did not fire him as I asked for. He also has a 13 page policy statement on a Florida health site attacking anyone against fluoridation as not worthy of debate or even discussion. It also claims only a couple actually exist as we all use multiple names to sound like many. I am positive the cities I talk to all know my face and name as it is part of the record every time I speak to the many city commissions giving them hard science and peer r4eviewed data. The opposite of what the health department and dentists do. http://tinyurl.com/yoder should be the link to dental professional testing scores on fluoridation. Lets just say they are below the worst school in the worst state in results. This is at pubmed.com for Yoder K.M. 2007 Indiana Look it up and be shocked how little dentists know about fluoride science. I am shocked they allowed the results to be published.
I got to debate Easley in the lobby outside the commission room after the vote in Daytona Beach. He is a attacker and keeps repeating you do not know what you are talking about. I memorize lots of data and am used to being attacked verbally so no big deal. He had his mental midgets rooting him on. 6 state guys worked the commission.
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I always thought that fluoride was a good thing. I never knew that it was a scam. Have you all heard that some tanning salons are offering tooth services like teeth whitening. I guess it makes sense. What do you guys think about this?
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Teeth whitening at tanning salons? I never heard of that. But since tanning salons are about looking healthy/pretty and the people
who patronize them are appearance-concious, I guess it makes sense, as you say. Customers are going to want a gleaming white smile to show off against that glorious tan!
As long as nobody's practicing dentistry without a license, I guess it's OK. After all, you can purchase do-it-yourself whitening kits, so why not? I personally wouldn't do it, though. - RNO
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