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UPDATE TO THIS ARTICLE: November
17, 2002 If any of the links in the article below are no longer working, visit the Wayback Machine at http://www.archive.org/ and put the URL into their search engine. You will most likely be able to find it there. April 5, 1999 Fluoride - Poison in the Water? Would you intentionally ingest a material that is used as a pesticide and has been suspected of causing cancer, hip fractures, intellectual impairment, fertility problems, deformed fish and dental deformities? Well, two-thirds of the population of the United States, and soon the entire population of the city of Los Angeles and its surrounding communities, take this material into their bodies every day if they use tap water in any way. Listed as one of the top 25 censored stories of 1998, the use of fluoride in our drinking water may have originated over 50 years ago as a way to cover-up the dangers of fluoride first discovered during the project to create the first atomic bomb. While going over hundreds of declassified documents about the U.S. atomic bomb development program, the Manhattan Project, reporters Joel Griffiths and Chris Bryson found that fluoride was the key chemical in atomic bomb production. Millions of tons were subsequently used during the Cold War period to manufacture the high-grade uranium and plutonium for nuclear weapons. Fluoride was the top chemical hazard of the U.S. nuclear weapons program, not only for workers, but for those living in nearby communities as well. The documents show that the first U.S. lawsuits levied against the atomic weapons program were over fluoride poisoning, not radiation damage. The documents reveal that the U.S. government secretly ordered atomic bomb scientists to create "evidence useful in litigation" against defense contractors who were being accused of injuring citizens with fluoride. In order to gather information, the government experimented with the residents of Newburgh, New York between 1945 and 1955. In a highly classified operation, the government secretly gathered blood and tissue samples from people of that town with the help of the New York Department of Health. Some of the results were published, but the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission (now the Nuclear Regulatory Commission) censored the report for reasons of "national security" by removing the evidence of the adverse health effects from fluoride. Damage to the teeth of a 10-year old girl from too much fluoride (Photo courtesy the Canadian Dental AssociationThe evidence is compelling that the entire U.S. - and now international - program of water fluoridation began as a massive effort to coverup one of the most toxic materials to come out of the nuclear weapons program. If fluoride was presented to the country as beneficial, then no one could sue the government for being harmed by it.
Have you seen children and young adults among your family and friends with those whitish spots or flecks on their teeth or, in more extreme cases, dark streaks that look like decay? This is the effect of dental fluorosis, the first visible sign of overexposure to fluoride. In some communities, the incidence of dental fluorosis is 30 to 60 percent or more.
National brand of toothpaste for childrenIn the last 50 years, fluoride has shown up in toothpastes, in byproducts from the chemical industry and even in tablets for children, increasing our exposure to the chemical greatly. Unprecedented levels of fluoride are accumulating in our bodies, particularly the bodies of children. Fluoride accumulates in the bones and has been linked to an increase in the occurrence of stress fractures in young people in the United States.The U.S. government's efforts to keep fluoride toxicity secret has had effects to this day. Very few studies have been done investigating the harmful effects of fluoride. Dr. Phyllis Mullenix, former head of toxicology at Forsyth Dental Center in Boston and now a critic of fluoridation, conducted animal studies in the early 1990s. She found that fluoride is a powerful central nervous system toxin and that the human brain could be adversely affected even at low doses. In fact today, research from China has shown a correlation between exposure to low doses of fluoride and diminished IQ in children. But when Dr. Mullenix applied for a grant from the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) to continue her central nervous system research, she was turned town. An NIH panel flatly told her that "fluoride does not have central nervous system effects." Yet a declassified atomic bomb program memo dated April 29, 1944 states clearly that "clinical evidence suggests that uranium hexafluoride may have a rather marked central nervous system effect..." The memo goes on to ask for a series of animal tests to be done on central nervous system effects and says, "this is important not only to protect a given individual, but also to prevent a confused workman from injuring others by improperly performing his duties."
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