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  <p><st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on"><span style='font-size:
    11.0pt;font-family:Arial'>America</span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span
  style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial'>'s really big sacred cow is
  fluoridation of drinking water.&nbsp;<o:p></o:p></span></p>
  <p><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Fact: <b
  style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'>Fluoride is so toxic that only one
  milligram constitutes a prescription dose.&nbsp; <o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
  <p><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial'>In spite of this, the Environmental
  Protection Agency (EPA) allows up to this amount in a <b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:
  normal'>single glass</b> of drinking water.&nbsp; <o:p></o:p></span></p>
  <p><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Fact:<b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:
  normal'> Virtually every country in <st1:place w:st="on">Europe</st1:place>
  has stopped fluoridation.</b>&nbsp;Research shows that fluoride confers
  little if any real benefit.&nbsp;<o:p></o:p></span></p>
  <p><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Fact: <b
  style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'>Persons who have grown up with
  fluoridated water have, on the average, only 1/2 of one filling less per
  lifetime than people who did not drink fluoridated water</b> (<i>Chemical and
  Engineering News</i>, May 8, 1989).&nbsp; <o:p></o:p></span></p>
  <p><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial'>&nbsp;Fluoride naturally
  and properly occurs mostly in bones and teeth.&nbsp;In extremely small
  amounts, it contributes to their hardness.&nbsp; Excess fluoride may be
  excreted in the urine... or retained in the body. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
  <p><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial'>&nbsp;Overdose is both
  well known and widespread.&nbsp;Fluoride overdose (<span class=SpellE>fluorosis</span>)
  is characterized by mottling of the tooth enamel.&nbsp;This overdose
  condition is so common in <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">India</st1:country-region></st1:place>
  and many other countries that they must operate fluoride removal facilities
  for their drinking water. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
  <p><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial'>&nbsp;Artificial
  fluoridation of water has also caused <span class=SpellE>fluorosis</span> in
  widespread communities in our country.&nbsp; Curiously, fluoridation of
  public water supplies is rarely seen as the rather imprecise
  supplementation... or mass medication... program that it is.&nbsp;
  Nutritionists who are repelled at the fact that now half of all Americans
  take vitamin C supplements almost always endorse mass fluoridation of
  everyone's water. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
  <p><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial'>&nbsp;Excess fluoride is
  vastly more dangerous than most minerals.&nbsp;Even pro-fluoride textbooks
  such as <i>Nutrition and Diet Therapy</i>, 6th edition (p. 305) indicate that
  &quot;the range of&nbsp;safe intake is not wide.&quot; <o:p></o:p></span></p>
  <p><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial'>&nbsp;<b
  style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'>There is absolutely no way to control the
  dose of fluoride once it is in the drinking water</b>, for different people
  and different ages drink radically different amounts of water each day. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
  <p><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial'>&nbsp;The alleged
  decay-preventing properties of fluoride are not as clearly established by
  scientific means as <span class=SpellE>fluoridationists</span> would have you
  believe.&nbsp; Federal, state and local politics... and the American Dental
  Association... have been biased.&nbsp; At least! Some evidence of this is
  provided by an article in the <i>Canadian Whig-Standard</i>, Monday January
  27, 1992: Dr. Richard <span class=SpellE>Foulkes</span>, who had once urged
  water fluoridation for the entire <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceType w:st="on">province</st1:PlaceType>
   of <st1:PlaceName w:st="on">British Columbia</st1:PlaceName></st1:place>, is
  quoted saying that he was misled by &quot;a powerful lobby.&quot;&nbsp; He
  adds, &quot;Even before 1973 there was very clear evidence that not only is
  fluoride in water ineffective for dental care, but it is also highly toxic,
  even at one part per million.&quot; <o:p></o:p></span></p>
  <p><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial'>&nbsp;The authoritative <i>Physician's
  Desk Reference</i> lists adverse reactions to fluoride as low as one-quarter
  part per million.&nbsp; <o:p></o:p></span></p>
  <p><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial'>&nbsp;Some communities,
  such as the one I live in (<st1:City w:st="on">Brockport</st1:City>, <st1:State
  w:st="on">NY</st1:State>) successfully resisted water fluoridation until the
  town water plant was taken over by the neighboring, fluoridating <st1:place
  w:st="on"><st1:PlaceType w:st="on">county</st1:PlaceType> of <st1:PlaceName
   w:st="on">Monroe</st1:PlaceName></st1:place>.&nbsp;Then, without any public
  hearings, all local water was announced as now fluoridated... a month after
  they started doing it. No hearings; no discussion; no vote. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
  <p><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial'>&nbsp;In an age of
  fluoride toothpastes, fluoride mouthwashes and even fluoridated children's
  vitamins, it is very difficult to justify the very real danger of mandating
  still more fluoride in everyone's drinking water. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
  <p><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial'>&nbsp;Please remember
  that your Grandma and spouse may be getting fluoride that even an <st1:place
  w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">ADA</st1:City></st1:place> dentist would say no
  longer benefits their now-mature (or artificial) teeth. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
  <p><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;
  font-family:Arial'>&nbsp;Fluoride</span></b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;
  font-family:Arial'> <b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'>(in vitamins or
  water) interferes with magnesium metabolism</b> in the body according to Dr.
  John R. <span class=SpellE>Marier</span>, of the Division of&nbsp; Biological
  Sciences at the Canadian National Research Council, Ottawa, in a paper
  published in <i>The Proceedings of the Finnish Dental Society</i>, vol. 76,
  1980, pages 82-102.&nbsp; This is significant because fluoride toxicity is
  increased when magnesium levels are low.&nbsp; Magnesium deficiency is
  widespread in the <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">U.S.</st1:country-region></st1:place>,
  especially among children and teenagers, reaching the 99th percentile among
  young women. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
  <p><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial'>&nbsp;<b
  style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'>Did you know that young children swallow
  as much as one third of their toothpaste?</b>&nbsp; Kids have been consuming
  so much excess fluoride that the US Public Health Service has urged parents
  to see that kids brush with only a &quot;pea-sized portion&quot; of fluoride
  toothpaste... and rinse carefully afterwards.&nbsp; (<i>Daily News</i>,
  Wednesday February 20, 1991, page 26) <o:p></o:p></span></p>
  <p><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial'>&nbsp;<b
  style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'>Fluoride DOES accumulate in bone</b>
  &quot;regardless of the level of&nbsp;intake.&quot; (<span class=GramE>text</span>,
  p. 305).&nbsp;The Environmental Protection Agency responded to all these red
  flags by increasing the allowed fluoride levels for drinking water.&nbsp;Now
  4 parts per million (<span class=SpellE>ppm</span>) is allowed.&nbsp;At only
  1 <span class=SpellE>ppm</span>, four glasses of&nbsp;fluoridated water,
  equals a 1 mg prescription fluoride tablet. (one mg in one liter is 1 <span
  class=SpellE>ppm</span>)&nbsp;This literally means that in parts of the <st1:place
  w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">USA</st1:country-region></st1:place>,
  persons may be getting a prescription dose of fluoride in every single glass
  of water they drink. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
  <p><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial'>&nbsp;Dissenting EPA
  scientists, such as Robert Carton (<a
  href="http://www.doctoryourself.com/carton.html">http://www.doctoryourself.com/carton.html</a>)
  and William Marcus, are subject to being fired, and Dr. Marcus was. EPA's own
  work on rats fails to demonstrate the safety of fluoride.&nbsp;Marcus and
  others think that the cancer danger is being played down.&nbsp;Fluoride
  appears to cause <span class=SpellE>osteosarcoma</span> (bone cancer) in lab
  animals. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
  <p><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial'>&nbsp;Marcus also cites
  numerous studies, up to and including 1991 JAMA
  articles&nbsp;&quot;demonstrating adverse effects to bone caused by fluoride
  at levels to which the majority of the <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region
   w:st="on">U.S.</st1:country-region></st1:place> population on public water
  supplies are exposed.&quot;&nbsp;(<i>Environment Week</i>,
  Washington,&nbsp;D.C., Thursday, August 15, 1991)&nbsp;For instance, fluoride
  actually contributes to increased bone fractures.&nbsp;One wonders if perhaps
  there had been a politically-motivated attempt to find a rationale for
  continued fluoridation of water in aging communities. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
  <p><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial'>&nbsp;It gets even more
  dramatic: both the National Toxicology Program (January 22, 1990 Fact Sheet)
  and the National Cancer Institute found a <b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:
  normal'>fluoride-related increase in <span class=SpellE>osteosarcoma</span></b>
  (a bone cancer) in young males (&quot;Review of Fluoride Benefits and
  Risks,&quot; U.S. Public Health Service, February, 1991.)&nbsp; <o:p></o:p></span></p>
  <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial'>&quot;There
  is no evidence that fluoride is an essential nutrient for humans.&quot; (Physicians'
  Desk Reference)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
  <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><a
  href="http://www.pdrhealth.com/drug_info/nmdrugprofiles/nutsupdrugs/flu_0109.shtml">http://www.pdrhealth.com/drug_info/nmdrugprofiles/nutsupdrugs/flu_0109.shtml</a><span
  style='mso-spacerun:yes'>   </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
  <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>
  <p class=MsoNormal><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span
  style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Fluoride is not approved by the <st1:country-region
  w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">U.S.</st1:place></st1:country-region> Food and
  Drug Administration (FDA).<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
  <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>
  <p class=MsoNormal><st1:State w:st="on"><span style='font-size:11.0pt;
   font-family:Arial'>California</span></st1:State><span style='font-size:11.0pt;
  font-family:Arial'> is 28% fluoridated; <st1:State w:st="on"><st1:place
   w:st="on">Hawaii</st1:place></st1:State> is 9% fluoridated. These states are
  tied for the lowest rate of tooth loss in the <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region
   w:st="on">USA</st1:country-region></st1:place>. On the other hand, <o:p></o:p></span></p>
  <p class=MsoNormal><st1:place w:st="on"><st1:State w:st="on"><span
    style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Kentucky</span></st1:State></st1:place><span
  style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial'> is 100% fluoridated and has the
  highest toothless population of <o:p></o:p></span></p>
  <p class=MsoNormal><span class=GramE><span style='font-size:11.0pt;
  font-family:Arial'>older</span></span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;
  font-family:Arial'> adults. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
  <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:Arial'>(<a
  href="http://www.latimes.com/features/health/medicine/la-me-health2jan02,1,2990789.story?coll=la-health-medicine">http://www.latimes.com/features/health/medicine/la-me-health2jan02,1,2990789.story?coll=la-health-medicine</a>
  ) <o:p></o:p></span></p>
  <p><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial'>A lengthy and remarkably
  unbiased review of the detrimental effects of &quot;Fluoridation of
  Water&quot; appeared in <i>Chemical and Engineering News</i>, Vol. 66, August
  1, 1988, pp 26-42.&nbsp; This is the most important single reference on the
  fluoride controversy you will ever read, or not read, as the case may be. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
  <p><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;
  font-family:Arial'>The National Parent-Teachers Association withdrew its
  support for water fluoridation on April 17, 1991. <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
  <p><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial'>&nbsp;Does your community
  fluoridate your water?&nbsp;Is that what you want?&nbsp;Whose decision was
  it? <br>
  &nbsp; <o:p></o:p></span></p>
  <p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><b><i><span style='font-size:
  11.0pt;font-family:Arial'>THE FLUORIDE DECEPTION</span></i></b><span
  style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
  <p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;
  font-family:Arial'>by Christopher Bryson<o:p></o:p></span></p>
  <p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;
  font-family:Arial'>Reviewed by Andrew W. Saul<o:p></o:p></span></p>
  <p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;
  font-family:Arial'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>
  <p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><b><i><span style='font-size:
  11.0pt;font-family:Arial'>&quot;One of the best book reviews I have ever
  read.&quot;</span></i></b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial'>
  Abram Hoffer, M.D.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
  <p><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial'>It was an era of
  thalidomide and plutonium; school segregation and human experimentation;
  24-hour SAC bomber patrols and classroom &quot;duck and cover&quot; drills;
  atmospheric H-bomb testing and DDT. The Red Scare dominated the news and
  physicians endorsed their favorite cigarette on TV. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
  <p><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial'>The &quot;Atomic Genie&quot;
  was out of the bottle and radium treatment was in vogue. And, of course,
  there was the latest of modern wonders, water fluoridation. Scientists of
  post WW II America promised us the world. And, as with 3-D movies and the <span
  class=SpellE>Edsel</span>, the promise was far beyond what would be
  delivered.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
  <p><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Fluoridated water was
  idealized as the ultimate form of 1950's failsafe social engineering. What
  could be more appealing than to be able to have your children virtually drink
  away dental decay? Yet like vaccination, municipal water fluoridation has
  never been satisfactorily tested with double-blind, placebo controls. But it
  hardly mattered to those in power. Like the lure of a quick war, with the
  troops all to be home by Christmas, dental publicists promised 75% or even
  90% reductions in dental caries. Today, most of the strongest fluoridation
  proponents rarely offer expected benefits of over 35%. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
  <p><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial'>The real numbers are
  almost certainly far lower. There is little or no difference in decay rates
  between sister cities' caries incidence regardless whether they are
  fluoridated or not. And this, says Christopher Bryson, author of <i>The
  Fluoride Deception</i>, has been the case from the start.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
  <p><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial'>When <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City
   w:st="on">Newburgh</st1:City>, <st1:State w:st="on">NY</st1:State></st1:place>'s
  water was fluoridated nearly 60 years ago, it was more a test to see if
  fluorine would hurt people than to see if it would stop cavities. Mr. Bryson
  traces the whole scandal, using recently declassified US Army and other
  genuinely embarrassing government documents. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
  <p><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Fluoride pollution, much
  of it a byproduct of WW II nuclear weapons manufacturing, had opened industry
  and government to lawsuits. Fluoridated water was engineered to be an
  antidote to liability as much as to dental decay.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
  <p><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Fluoridation rode a wave
  of politicized science, the dark side of which was the nuclear arms race.
  According to Bryson's publisher, &quot;Documents discovered in the files of
  the Manhattan Project connect the atomic bomb program with the 1945 public
  experiment compared the teeth and health of the children of Newburgh with
  that of fluoride-free neighboring Kingston. It was the most significant of
  the early water fluoridation trials, purporting to demonstrate fluoride's
  safety in low doses. The top <span class=GramE>scientist</span> who oversaw
  the <st1:place w:st="on">Newburgh</st1:place> experiment, and the leading
  voice promoting water fluoridation, issuing reassurances of fluoride's safety
  in low doses, was Dr. Harold Hodge. Hodge is regarded as the dean of the
  science of toxicology in the <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">United
    States</st1:country-region></st1:place>. While selling fluoride to
  children, he was simultaneously head of the Division of Pharmacology and
  Toxicology for the Manhattan Project, charged with protecting the government
  from worker and community lawsuits for fluoride damage. Showing that fluoride
  was safe in low doses reduced the risk of lawsuits against the bomb
  program.&quot;<o:p></o:p></span></p>
  <p><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Blanket and blatant
  reassurances about safety is nothing new to the military. If you have ever
  viewed the documentary movie entitled <i>The Atomic Café</i>, you have seen
  actual U.S. Army film footage showing soldiers, shielded only by their cotton
  uniforms and a G.I. helmet, walking straight towards a still-rising mushroom
  cloud from an atomic detonation just a few miles away. It hardly ended there;
  from 1942 until the 1980’s, uranium was added to the materials in dentures.
  No doubt this was to help Grandpa see them in the dark when he craved a
  midnight snack. Sounds pretty odd, doesn't it. Uranium in dentures. How very
  silly, we now say. Yet to this day, the American Dental Association, the FDA,
  and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control all maintain that mercury, a toxic
  heavy metal, is perfectly safe to have drilled into your living teeth. (1, 2,
  3) <o:p></o:p></span></p>
  <p><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Not surprisingly, they
  also all support fluoridation of water.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
  <p><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial'>History is stranger than
  fiction, and just as subject to revision. For decades, <span class=SpellE>fluoridationists</span>
  declared that teeth were strengthened from within by fluoride; it was
  supposedly a systemic, nutritional benefit. It is not. Fluoride weakens bone,
  increases incidence of bone cancer, and increases fracture rates. (</span><span
  style='font-size:11.0pt'><a
  href="http://www.doctoryourself.com/osteoporosis.html"><span
  style='font-family:Arial'>http://www.doctoryourself.com/osteoporosis.html</span></a></span><span
  style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial'>) <o:p></o:p></span></p>
  <p><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Today the
  &quot;authorities&quot; have quietly flip-flopped, and now claim that dilute
  fluoride has a topical, perhaps bactericidal effect. Think about that for a
  moment. If fluoride has that kind of killing power at just a few parts per
  million, what are doctors doing wasting their time writing antibiotic
  prescriptions? Forget the <span class=SpellE>Cipro</span>: Why not just tell
  patients to drink more tap water? If fluoride is that powerful, imagine the
  effect on the rest of the body. Indeed, fluoride is the most chemically
  reactive of all naturally-occurring elements. When Linus Pauling originated
  the four-point electronegative scale, fluorine was and remains the one and
  only top scorer with a perfect 4. All other elements are weaker. And this is
  the element you drink, without prescription, in doses that vary with how
  thirsty you may be on a given day.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
  <p><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Most of the <st1:place
  w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">United States</st1:country-region></st1:place>
  is now fluoridated. Most of <st1:place w:st="on">Europe</st1:place> is not. (</span><span
  style='font-size:11.0pt'><a href="http://www.fluoridation.com/c-country.htm"><span
  style='font-family:Arial'>http://www.fluoridation.com/c-country.htm</span></a></span><span
  style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial'>) Blinders on, everyone: surely <st1:country-region
  w:st="on">America</st1:country-region>'s scientists are smarter than <st1:place
  w:st="on">Europe</st1:place>'s. Scientific dogma lives in the sacred cow of
  fluoridation, and dissent over doctrine is enough to wreck a Yankee
  scientist's career in a hurry, even though fluoridation remains far more a
  matter of faith than of fact. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
  <p><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;
  font-family:Arial'>&quot;<i>The addition of fluoride to water supplies
  violates modern pharmacological principles</i>,&quot; writes Dr. <span
  class=SpellE>Arvid</span> <span class=SpellE>Carlsson</span>, Nobel Prize for
  Medicine laureate.</span></b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial'>
  <i>&quot;It is my sincere hope that Christopher Bryson's apparently thorough
  and comprehensive perusal of the scientific literature on the biological
  actions of fluoride and the ensuing debates through the years will receive
  the attention it deserves and that its implications will be seriously considered</i>.&quot;
  Dr. <span class=SpellE>Carlsson</span>, by the way, is the scientist
  &quot;who helped lead the successful campaign to stop water fluoridation in
  Sweden (and) argued that public water supplies were not an appropriate
  vehicle with which to deliver 'pharmacologically active' drugs to the entire
  population. According to <span class=SpellE>Carlsson</span>:<i> 'I am quite
  convinced that water fluoridation, in a not-too-distant future, will be
  consigned to medical history. . . The addition of drugs to the drinking water
  means exactly the opposite of an individualized therapy. Not only in that the
  dose cannot be adapted to individual requirements: it is, in addition, based
  on a completely irrelevant factor, namely consumption of drinking water,
  which varies greatly between individuals and is, moreover, very poorly surveyed</i>.'&quot;
  (</span><span style='font-size:11.0pt'><a
  href="http://www.fluoridealert.org/basel.htm"><span style='font-family:Arial'>http://www.fluoridealert.org/basel.htm</span></a></span><span
  style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial'>) <o:p></o:p></span></p>
  <p><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Since the 1950's, we have
  learned a few things. Everyone now knows that nuclear radiation is dangerous;
  most know that heavy metals are poisonous. Although dentists still implant
  mercury into teeth, at least lead is no longer added to gasoline. You'll like
  this one: in his book, Bryson shows that &quot;the man who reassured the
  nation as to the safety of lead in gasoline, Robert Kehoe, Director of the
  Kettering Laboratory at the <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceType w:st="on">University</st1:PlaceType>
   of <st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Cincinnati</st1:PlaceName></st1:place>,
  simultaneously reassured us of the safety of water fluoridation. . . . He
  testified in a federal court there had been no cases of fluoride disability
  in <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">US</st1:country-region></st1:place>
  industry. His own laboratory, however, had confidentially reported numerous
  cases.&quot;<o:p></o:p></span></p>
  <p><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial'>What a story, and it's
  just one of many more to be found in <i>The Fluoride Deception</i>.
  Christopher Bryson's narrative has captured the feel of the
  progress-patriotism-and-profit postwar years with his comprehensive,
  interview-based history of fluoridation. <i>The Fluoride Deception</i> is
  genuinely interesting, impeccably referenced, and scary. For those who still
  believe that fluoridation is the public's passive panacea for tooth decay,
  here's the book that may finally set them straight.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
  <p><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial'>(This review reprinted
  with permission from </span><span style='font-size:11.0pt'><a
  href="http://www.orthomed.org/"><i>The Journal of Orthomolecular Medicine</i></a></span><span
  style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial'>.)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
  <p><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial'>The Fluoride Deception,
  by Christopher Bryson. NY: Seven Stories Press, 2004. (ISBN: 1-58-322526-9)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
  <p><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;
  font-family:Arial'>Doctor <span class=SpellE>Yourself’s</span> Andrew W. Saul
  Interviews CHRISTOPHER BRYSON</span></b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;
  font-family:Arial'>, author of <b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><i
  style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>The Fluoride Deception:</i></b><o:p></o:p></span></p>
  <p><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial'>DY: So, Mr. Bryson: How
  do you get along with your dentist?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
  <p><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Christopher Bryson: Very
  well. He has no idea I am the author of <i>The Fluoride Deception</i>. I
  cannot abide those one sided so-called &quot;conversations&quot; in the
  chair, talking with a mouthful of metal. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
  <p><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial'>DY: Questioning
  fluoridation is the kiss of death for many a scientist. Almost all of the
  over 5,000 fluoride-related scientific papers indexed on Medline are openly in
  favor of the practice. A search for &quot;fluoride dangers&quot; brings up
  only two papers; &quot;fluoride toxicity&quot; gets you a handful more. Where
  has there ever been any fair and reasonable discussion of fluoridation, pro
  and con?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
  <p><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Bryson: Perhaps the most
  balanced review I came across was a long article in Chemical and Engineering
  News, from August 1, 1988, by Bette <span class=SpellE>Hileman</span>. (Vol.
  66, p 26-42.) <o:p></o:p></span></p>
  <p><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial'>DY: Agreed. That article
  that showed that fluoridated water reduces dental caries by about 1/2 filling
  per person per lifetime. It is not indexed on Medline. There has also been
  what I consider to be a very good article on the cancer risk of fluoridated
  water published in the Journal of Orthomolecular Medicine, also posted at </span><span
  style='font-size:11.0pt'><a
  href="http://www.doctoryourself.com/fluoride_cancer.html"><span
  style='font-family:Arial'>http://www.doctoryourself.com/fluoride_cancer.html</span></a></span><span
  style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial'> . That is not on Medline, either.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
  <p><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Now for a standard
  question: how did you come to write this book?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
  <p><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Bryson: I was a BBC radio
  reporter in <st1:State w:st="on">New York</st1:State> in 1993 and was asked
  by a <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">London</st1:City></st1:place>
  producer to find an American &quot;angle&quot; on water fluoridation. I
  interviewed two dissident government scientists, Robert Carton (<a
  href="http://www.doctoryourself.com/carton.html">http://www.doctoryourself.com/carton.html</a><span
  class=GramE>)and</span> Bill <span class=SpellE>Hirzy</span>, with the US
  Army and the EPA respectively. They explained that the science underpinning
  the <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">US</st1:country-region></st1:place>
  government fluoride safety standards for drinking water was fraudulent. At
  the same time I read an extraordinary piece of journalism, &quot;Fluoride:
  Commie Plot or Capitalist Ploy,&quot; from the fall 1992 issue of Covert
  Action Information Bulletin, by the medical writer Joel Griffiths. (The full
  text is posted at </span><span style='font-size:11.0pt'><a
  href="http://www.fluoridealert.org/f-industry.htm"><span style='font-family:
  Arial'>http://www.fluoridealert.org/f-industry.htm</span></a></span><span
  style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial'>) He explained how industry had
  long manipulated health information about fluoride to launder fluoride’s
  public image, with the secret agenda of defending itself from lawsuits being
  launched by workers and farmers alleging fluoride pollution.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
  <p><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial'>DY: You researched and
  developed this into a major portion of your book. To shift gears: Is your
  community’s water fluoridated?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
  <p><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Bryson: Yes, <st1:City
  w:st="on">New York City</st1:City>’s water has been fluoridated since the mid
  1960’s, when the father of public relations Edward L. <span class=SpellE>Bernays</span>
  secretly worked the <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:State w:st="on">New York</st1:State></st1:place>’s
  Public Health Commissioner Dr. Leona Baumgartner, to &quot;engineer
  consent&quot; as he put it, for water fluoridation.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
  <p><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial'>DY: What steps have you
  taken, personally, to limit fluoride intake for your family?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
  <p><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Bryson: I do not use
  fluoridated toothpaste, and have a fluoride filter for drinking water.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
  <p><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial'>DY: In your book, one
  cannot help but notice how many personal interviews you conducted with your
  sources. What can you tell me about interviewees who did not wish to go on
  the record?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
  <p><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Bryson: Most everyone
  went on the record. Some of them, I’m sure, had no idea that my book would be
  as critical of fluoridation. Director Jack Hein of the Forsyth Dental Center
  was reluctant to a formal interview, but was drawn out in a telephone
  conversation, and ended up telling me a great deal. Attorney Pete Johnson who
  represented the Reynolds Metals Company in the 2000 Hurricane Creek lawsuit
  did not return my phone call. Arnold <span class=SpellE>Kramish</span> of the
  Manhattan Project also declined a request for an interview.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
  <p><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial'>DY: Your book, with its
  very commendable 110 pages of notes, might be well described as sort of a
  &quot;Fahrenheit FL.&quot; What facts, what parts of your book are your
  critics specifically attacking you over?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
  <p><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Bryson: I don’t know that
  I have any critics. If they exist, they have been profoundly silent, well
  aware that any attack would be good publicity for the book. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
  <p><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial'>DY: I think your book is
  so tightly documented that they haven't a leg to stand on if they try. I
  noticed that there was an advertisement for your book in the <i>NY Times</i>,
  but am unaware that the <i>Times</i> ever reviewed it. Where may we find and
  read major media reviews of <i>The Fluoride Deception</i>?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
  <p><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Bryson: Thus far, there
  has not been a single mention of the book in the <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region
   w:st="on">US</st1:country-region></st1:place> media, with the exception of <i>Publisher's
  Weekly</i>. I’m certain industry would love to keep it thus.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
  <p><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial'>DY News: The <i>Publisher's
  Weekly notice</i> (May 2004) was favorable, saying in part:
  &quot;Investigative reporter Bryson revisits the decades-long controversy,
  drawing on mountains of scientific studies, some unearthed from secret
  archives of government and corporate laboratories, to question the effects of
  fluoride and the motives of its leading advocates. . . Fluoride in its many
  forms may be one of the most toxic of industrial pollutants, and Bryson cites
  scientific analyses linking fluoridated drinking water to bone deformities,
  hyperactivity and a host of other complaints.&quot; <o:p></o:p></span></p>
  <p><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Thank you for getting the
  word out.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
  <p><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Bryson: Thanks for your
  interest in the book.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
  <p><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial'>MERCURY AMALGAM Quotes
  and Notes, referred to in the above review:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
  <p><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial'>1. &quot;Dental amalgam
  (silver filling) is considered a safe, affordable and durable material that
  has been used to restore the teeth of more than 100 million Americans. . .The
  ADA’s Council on Scientific Affairs’ 1998 report (J Am Dent Assoc. 1998 Apr;129(4):494-503.)
  <span class=GramE>on</span> its review of the recent scientific literature on
  amalgam states: 'The Council concludes that, based on available scientific
  information, amalgam continues to be a safe and effective restorative
  material.' The Council’s report also states, 'There currently appears to be
  no justification for discontinuing the use of dental amalgam.' . . . (T<span
  class=GramE>)he</span> <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">ADA</st1:City></st1:place>
  continues to believe that amalgam is a valuable, viable and safe choice for
  dental patients and concurs with the findings of the U.S. Public Health Service
  that amalgam has 'continuing value in maintaining oral
  health.'&quot;(American Dental Association </span><span style='font-size:
  11.0pt'><a
  href="http://www.ada.org/prof/resources/positions/statements/amalgam.asp"><span
  style='font-family:Arial'>http://www.ada.org/prof/resources/positions/statements/amalgam.asp</span></a></span><span
  style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial'>, revised January 8, 2003,
  accessed July 31, 2004)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
  <p><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial'>2. &quot;No valid
  scientific evidence has shown that amalgams cause harm to patients with
  dental restorations, except in the rare case of allergy.&quot; U.S. Food and
  Drug Administration (</span><span style='font-size:11.0pt'><a
  href="http://www.fda.gov/cdrh/consumer/amalgams.html"><span style='font-family:
  Arial'>http://www.fda.gov/cdrh/consumer/amalgams.html</span></a></span><span
  style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial'>, accessed July 31, 2004)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
  <p><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial'>3. &quot;The U.S. Public
  Health Service believes it is inappropriate at this time to recommend any
  restrictions on the use of dental amalgam . . . (C)<span class=SpellE>urrent</span>
  scientific evidence does not show that exposure to mercury from amalgam
  restorations poses a serious health risk in humans.&quot; (CDC/National
  Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion. Oral Health
  Resources. </span><span style='font-size:11.0pt'><a
  href="http://www.cdc.gov/OralHealth/factsheets/amalgam.htm"><span
  style='font-family:Arial'>http://www.cdc.gov/OralHealth/factsheets/amalgam.htm</span></a></span><span
  style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial'>, accessed July 31, 2004)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
  <p><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial'>(Editor's note: I
  disagree with all mercury apologists, and predict, in time, that each of
  these organizations will eat their words.)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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