FLUORIDE-DATE LECTURE #8 - QUESTION AUTHORITY II
Good afternoon, Mayor Wynn and Councilmembers. Last week I was going over a short Austin Water Utility document called “Fluoride in Drinking Water” which contains some misleading information. (http://www.ci.austin.tx.us/water/fluoride.htm) I had covered four points, and I’ll finish the last two now.
Point Five—Quote. . .The beneficial aspects of fluoride are widely recognized.—Unquote. It goes on to list supposedly “impartial” groups endorsing fluoridation: the American Dental Association, the Texas Dental Association, the American Medical Association, the World Health Organization, The Centers for Disease Control. . . . OK, Question: How impartial are these groups? Answer: They’re not. The first three—the ADA, the TDA and the AMA, despite their reassuring names—are marketing-oriented organizations more focused on the well-being of their membership than the public. They’re about profits as well as health. Since fluoride product sales are a huge part of the dental profession’s bottom line, don’t look to those trade groups to kill their golden goose any time soon.
Then there’s the CDC. The same CDC that calls water fluoridation one of the 20th century’s ten greatest public health achievements, yet warns against it for infants*. The CDC that recently conceded that fluoride’s benefits—if any—are derived topically, not through ingestion,** but still insists it belongs in the water. The same CDC that now claims water fluoridation is more crucial to preventing tooth decay than a healthy diet and good oral hygiene. I kid you not. Drinking fluoridated water is more important than brushing your teeth, according to them.. So much for the CDC. The FDA isn’t mentioned in this list, for good reason. It hasn’t weighed in on fluoride since approving it as a rodent poison in the 1920’s.
The World Health Organization endorses fluoride, but with reservations. In computing their notion of “optimal” fluoridation, they at least take into account the total amount of fluoride a person is likely to receive from all sources—an idea that’s anathema to our American trade associations and alphabet agencies. And fluoride is all-pervasive in our food, from the fluoridated pesticides widely sprayed on crops. WHO also produces charts like this one
comparing the decline of tooth decay in fluoridated versus non-fluoridated countries over many years. And it clearly shows there’s no advantage to fluoridation. But they support it anyway. Go figure.
Finally—Point 6—the paper invokes the FDA as guardian of our safety. In fact, the FDA’s regulatory limits for fluoride in drinking water are so outrageously high that thousands of their own employees have rebelled with a petition denouncing the standards and demanding a halt to all fluoridation. Those professionals are questioning authority, and so should we. Thank you.
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*http://www.cdc.gov/fluoridation/safety/infant_formula.htm
**"[L]aboratory and epidemiologic research suggests that fluoride prevents dental caries predominately after eruption of the tooth into the mouth, and its actions primarily are topical for both adults and children" (CDC, 1999, MMWR 48: 933-940).
Point Five—Quote. . .The beneficial aspects of fluoride are widely recognized.—Unquote. It goes on to list supposedly “impartial” groups endorsing fluoridation: the American Dental Association, the Texas Dental Association, the American Medical Association, the World Health Organization, The Centers for Disease Control. . . . OK, Question: How impartial are these groups? Answer: They’re not. The first three—the ADA, the TDA and the AMA, despite their reassuring names—are marketing-oriented organizations more focused on the well-being of their membership than the public. They’re about profits as well as health. Since fluoride product sales are a huge part of the dental profession’s bottom line, don’t look to those trade groups to kill their golden goose any time soon.
Then there’s the CDC. The same CDC that calls water fluoridation one of the 20th century’s ten greatest public health achievements, yet warns against it for infants*. The CDC that recently conceded that fluoride’s benefits—if any—are derived topically, not through ingestion,** but still insists it belongs in the water. The same CDC that now claims water fluoridation is more crucial to preventing tooth decay than a healthy diet and good oral hygiene. I kid you not. Drinking fluoridated water is more important than brushing your teeth, according to them.. So much for the CDC. The FDA isn’t mentioned in this list, for good reason. It hasn’t weighed in on fluoride since approving it as a rodent poison in the 1920’s.
The World Health Organization endorses fluoride, but with reservations. In computing their notion of “optimal” fluoridation, they at least take into account the total amount of fluoride a person is likely to receive from all sources—an idea that’s anathema to our American trade associations and alphabet agencies. And fluoride is all-pervasive in our food, from the fluoridated pesticides widely sprayed on crops. WHO also produces charts like this one
comparing the decline of tooth decay in fluoridated versus non-fluoridated countries over many years. And it clearly shows there’s no advantage to fluoridation. But they support it anyway. Go figure.
Finally—Point 6—the paper invokes the FDA as guardian of our safety. In fact, the FDA’s regulatory limits for fluoride in drinking water are so outrageously high that thousands of their own employees have rebelled with a petition denouncing the standards and demanding a halt to all fluoridation. Those professionals are questioning authority, and so should we. Thank you.
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*http://www.cdc.gov/fluoridation/safety/infant_formula.htm
**"[L]aboratory and epidemiologic research suggests that fluoride prevents dental caries predominately after eruption of the tooth into the mouth, and its actions primarily are topical for both adults and children" (CDC, 1999, MMWR 48: 933-940).
Posted by M. Rae Nadler-Olenick at 3/5/2009 2:48 PM 
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This link www.pauapress.com/fluoride/files/1418.pdf accesses information about adverse health effects from fluoridation that The Establishment claims do not exist.
Via this link you can access, free, Dr Bruce Spittle's book "Fluoride Fatigue" that is sub-titled "Fluoride Poisoning: is fluoride in your drinking water and from other sources making you sick?"
Please turn to page 76 and read about the author who has received numerous medical awards and prizes.
Dr Spittle is the Managing Editor of "Fluoride" the official journal of the International Society for Fluoride Research and has meticulously referenced "Fluoride Fatigue" for the doubting Thomases who still think that fluoridation is safe for all.
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