FLUORIDE DATE LECTURE #31 - FLUORIDE'S "SOCIAL BENEFIT": WHY THE LIE IS CRUMBLING
Good afternoon, Mayor Leffingwell and councilmembers. Last Wednesday I was sitting in the Fluoride Free Austin booth at the Earth Day Festival in Triangle Park educating my fellow Austinites about water fluoridation. A majority of those I talked with were already on board—not surprising for such an environmentally-aware crowd. But in fact, I’ve been getting pretty much the same reaction wherever I go—from all kinds of people. Folks everywhere are really waking up to the issue right now. .
I told this to a bright young Daily Texan reporter who stopped by, and she responded with a very perceptive question: Why the awakening at this particular time?
I actually had to think about it for a minute. And I concluded the key factor is economics. For more than a half century, following World War II, water fluoridation rode the rising tide of American prosperity. Dental health is a direct function of living standard. And for decades, as our standard of living steadily rose, rates of tooth decay fell correspondingly. Though this was equally true in fluoridated and non-fluoridated areas, fluoride got the credit for the improvement.
Today, amidst a widespread economic downturn, it’s a different story. With incomes flat or dropping, with jobs and medical benefits disappearing, the population sector unable to afford dental care has soared. In 2000, after decades of smugness, the U.S. Surgeon General’s office announced that a “silent epidemic” of oral diseases from cavities to mouth cancer now afflicts minorities and low-income Americans. The Texas Dental Association’s 2008 report stated the same thing, and both reports singled out poor children as especially vulnerable. The longer this goes on—and it’s going on everywhere—the harder it is to maintain the fiction that water fluoridation provides any health benefits to the low income children in whose name it is implemented.
Austin has weathered the current recession better that most places, buoyed by our thriving high tech industry, great university, and status as capital city. We’re a pace-setting city, admired and emulated. We have an opportunity to take the lead in ending the outdated and futile practice of water fluoridation. I urge the Council to exercise that opportunity. Thank you.
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One day this will seem so OBVIOUS to everyone that water should not be fluoridated.
Thank you for continuing to fight the good fight! I can only surmise that the industry has people in their pockets. Either that or our city leaders have their brain cells numbed out on fluoride and can't think?! How ironic.
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I have learned to expect deception from public health professionals. It is rare they will actually answer questions except to list endorsements or simplistic talking points avoiding the question. Even a fool knows when they are avoiding a question and the health department people full well know they must avoid current data at all costs.
I actually have more issues with the dentists as they are bright enough to figure out something stinks in their blind promotion of a theory they all know has some very weak points. Most jump in both feet and often attack those actually showing real science and studies as unqualified to discuss the complex issue. My point of view is by following the ADA policy that all dentists must promote fluoridation it is no longer about real science. Actually it never was.
The Yoder K.M. 2007 testing Illinois and Indiana showed shocking near total ignorance of the dental community that ingested pre eruptive fluoride is near worthless. well over 80% blindly followed the official party line. 14% in Illinois understood any benefit is topical post eruptive like toothpaste. Many of the dentists who know the truth still do not speak out publicly as they can be shunned by the dental community for honesty.
How can the EPa union opposition to fluoridation be ignored by anyone. This started in 1985 and was followed by an attempted fedral lawsuit in 1986 but grew to 11 Unions by 2005 asking for a moratorium immediately. As of 29 Feb 2008 the number was 19 Unions 10,000 professions blowing the whistle to halt fluoridation now. The 2006 Mar 23 NRC also by a 12-0 said the EPA management should revise downward the current Max as it is not protective(safe). The EPA unions using standard risk assesment did the math and just like other cumulative toxins arsenic and lead Fluoride should have a goal of ZERO.
The current Goal and Max is 4000ppb but the max for arsenic is 10ppb and lead 15ppb with a goal of ZERO. Fluoride is the only toxin with a goal and Max the same which is impossible to explain with science. Politics and lobbist money does explain it.
John Remmington Graham just came out with a book on the
Fluoridation battle with 2 doctors. He is the attorney who won 3 State fluoridation lawsuits proving it worthless but excellent for causing cancer ,thyroid malfunciton,bone damage and so on. The federal courts over ruled on jurisdiction only and all the finding of fact still stand in 3 States. Ignored of course. I am starting to see asbestos lawsuits advertising during the daytime also. Someday that might be fluoride lawsuits.I just work for an end what ever it takes. Sometimes it takes lawsuits to do the right thing.
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