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Show Page 8 The UTAH INDEPENDENT Continued From Page 1 April 28; 1972 rang through the land. The fact that Newburgh's molars were beginning to go, was not mentioned. But the Passaic thing made the Congressional sell, tcrsocicty Board, published a table of eleven poisons and their factors of safety in human consumption. Fluoride was the only one with a safety factor of zero, meaning that it is dangerous even in minute amounts. Nevertheless, fluoride is running through the water mains of thousands of American communities today. How could such a fearful mistake have been made? I Back in 1939, G. J. Cox, a biochemist at the Mellon Institute in Pittsburgh, accepted a commission from the Aluminum Company of America to find a use for the sodium fluoride wastes produced by aluminum pot lines. Some fifty other industries had fluoride disposal problems, too; many were bedeviled by damage suits arising from the noxious effects of the poison on crops and livestock. Steel, brick, fertilizer, tile, and ceramics plants, oil refineries, metal smelters, and many installations of the Atomic Energy Commission were involved. The cost of elimination of the chemical was probe hibitive. Couldn't this instead? use to profitable put Cox found that it could, and very (imply. Why not dissolve the stuff in drinking water. Fluoride might be specifically required for healthy teeth, he thought. Cox was without medical background and had made no clinical researches on its behavior in the body. But his idea rang the bclL A rash of company largess to eager scientists soon brought good news. The discovery jvQuld be a perfect shortcut to glowing, ijhialasting teeth for all. And absolutely Jafcf It would be, the promoters effused, the greatest health measure of modern times. Alcoa began advertising fluorides for water treatment Public Health officials jumped on dm bandwagon in a hurry. In 1945, the city of Newburgh, New York, .was invited" to try out mass fluoridation, using untouched Kingston, nearby, as its control for comparison. The test y would last ten y&rjIlut, even wait couldn't the to expert; through, Newsuccess. announce a sweepiig half-wa- . t's younger chftetaa, erupting per-cteeth under. Bnbridation, were of cavities a score of 100 percent Soon after, cavities begain to show up; but the score, compared to Kingston's, was still sixty-fiv- e percent better. The news spread far and wide. This marvelous result for the price of one candy bar per year! Similar miracles were reported from Grand Rapids, Michigan, tad Brantford, Ontario, which had h parade. joined the Meanwhile Oscar Ewing, an Alcoa . attorney, resigned to become head boy for the United States Public Health Ser vice (U.S.P.H.S.), and started fluoridating in earnest Surgeon General Leonard Scheele joined the shouting, hailing this happy scheme as a mass application method for controlling far more serious diseases diseases than dental decay. The principle of mass medication had been disnt fluoride-for-healt- this as a full green light from the most powerful medical group in the world. Ask any ordinary citizen today why he is for fluoridation and he'll tell you the Record. organized doctors and dentists sav it's In 1952, the Delaney Subcommittee okav and that's enough for him. Truth of the House of Representatives looked is, the A.M.A. has never been certain into fluoridation, decided solidly against enough of it to make an unequivocal enit when they heard independent sciendorsement. tists express shocked disapproval at the At any rate, from Newburghs modest character of the so of all men. slipshod experiments start in 1945, over far. Here and there, too, a few dentists women, and children in the U.S.A. and doctors stood up and objected. A have the fluoride habit today, and a trickle of independent fluoride research great many of them don't even know began in laboratories. It was reported theyve.. got it. The lure of a fancied that Newburghs adult health was poorpanacea is irresistible. Virtually every er than Kingston's. Nor were dentists big city is in the fold and smaller comleaving the fluoridated towns in droves. munities join up every dav. A handful K. K. Paluev, an alert General Elechave tried the medication and hacked tric engineer, studied the Newburgh out, only to be harassed until they refigures and showed that fluoride only turn to common sense." The bureautooth for a of decay postponed couple crats of the U.S.P.H.S. and the belliger. years. The zealots had made a statistical ent AD.A. are gaining all the time. So blunder by comparing children of the are the makers of fluoridation eniip-men- t and the suppliers of the same age in the two towns. Naturally salts. The fluoride boon, it this had made fluoridated teeth look better at first. By the third year, Kingis called. But the muted mutter of dissent has ston was rapidly catching up. At the Paluev stilled. Former Surgeon General Newnot mark, proved, deenforced medication Luther was burghs Terry has stiffened against it; here teeth the and there courageous doctors such kids' wholesale. stroying n the Paluev as Detroit allergist. G. observed, is the greatest "This," L. Waldbott, fight on, ducking brick con game of all time!" The American Dental Association bats and invective. So does Dr. F. B. (AD.A.), against fluoridation in 1944, Exner, Seattle radiologist, who has just was now being drawn in by the Public brought suit against what Waldbott Health Service, with the latter's emiscalls The Titans" for libeling him in saries regularly sitting in on dental A.M.A.s popularized publication. Toshow. the meetings, subtly running days Health. And behind such crusadThe dentists were starting a clamor for ers come the expanding ranks of prouniversal fluoridation. The Harvard fessionals such as the American Assoand University of Rochester dental ciation of Physicians and Surgeons, and schools quickly jumped into the vanbrilliant young Dr. Albert Burgstahlcr, guard. American Medical Association of the Department of Chemistry, Unibigwigs joined the combine, refusing to versity of Kansas. These people are rappublish technical articles by fluoridaidly getting tired of the monstrous tion opponents. Grant money poured conspiracy which seeks to strangle them from company coffers upon scientists and their protests. They are amazed who saw the light, but was carefully and appalled. denied those who didn't. Scientists never before refused publication for n genuine research had suddenly become Disparagement of anybody on die segregated. AD.A.'s Ethics CommitOpposition side is the standard weapon tee now issued countrywide orders to when flying wedges of troops invade a member dentists to express no derogachosen as the next victim. Months town tory opinions to anyone. When Detroit before the planned deadline for fluowas subverted to medicated water in ridation, local doctors and dentists are 1965, every member of the District Denapproached and told that fluoridation tal Society was assessed twenty dollars is no longer debatable in the scientific toward support of the campaign, on community. Most practitioners surpin of expulsion. This was a bit too render, usually won over by the flood much. The touch, being in violation of of propaganda, and the fear of being federal laws forbidding e discredited in the community. The tacorganizations to enter politics, stirred much tics are identical with many other govresentment This case also made the ernment pressure routines. Derision, Congressional Record. downgrading, and insult are never lackAlthough the American Medical Asing. The newspapers are quickly taken sociations technical committees were into the invaders' confidence, fed lush warning against mass fluoridation as stories of the Valhalla fluoridation will late as 1957, the Association's House of create. Mainly they go along, flailing Delegates hastened to pass a loosely men like Waldbott who stand up to be worded resolution accepting fluoridacounted. Such men are misinformed. tion At the same time, strenuous effort is principle. The bureaucrats in the U.S. Public Health Service grabbed made to avoid a popular vote. A few one-thir- d ten-ye- tax-fre- In non-infectio- us ... covered. stretch no been had published. figures complete yet But there were still level heads in the Department of Health at Passaic, New Jersey. There Dr. James G. Kerwin asked the Bureau of Health Service at the University of the State of New York results. for final Newburgh-Kingsto- n The Bureau Chief answered with unexpected frankness: Almost fifty percent more dental defects in Newburgh than in Kingston. Passaic decided against fluoridation. Teaming up with the American Dental Association, U.S.P.H.S. jumped into the breach, spreading contempt upon all unbelievers. Cries of Crackpots, malcontents, people with something else to At the end of the1 ten-ye- (Uto MCI tc w Presents the New ar C30SHY 500 West Center St Utah take advantage of our pre-openi- ng prices. $irtrtrkirfKit) Organic Cleaners 50 lbs., $15.50 (also in smaller quantities) Laundry Bath $2.65 Kitchen 54 gal., $2.65 Power 54 gal., $2.65 See Marva Bennett, 2729 Alden, S.L.C., Ut 84106 0 Phone (801) Also dealer for "Pedigree" game for ages 10 and up. Bio-degrada- ble 467-071- 10 H-Bountif- Come in and Utah Manufactured No Residua No Pollution ii 4-- discount with this ad. Distributors wanted. must eliminate lags by the engineermust gain their ing of consent. You health programs consent to your through many types of persuasion. Public health officers cannot afford the professional modesty professed by physicians. . . . A redefinition of ethics is necessary. The subject matter of the propaganda need not necessarily be true. dis- primitives; uninformed, stupid, honest." The above from none other than Dr. F. J. Stare, a Professor at the Harvard School of Public Health. And this from Dr. C. H. Patton, President of the American Dental Association: Absolutely safe . . . not debatable." One of the generals in this assault upon scientific sanity was Dr. Frank Bull, former Dental Director of the State of Wisconsin. Hes dead now, though his word still prevails. Back in 1951, at the Fourth Annual Conference of State Dental Directors, the U.S.PH.S., and the Childrens Bureau of the Department of Health, Education and Welfare, Dr. Bull read the riot act, as follows: ar well-know- -- states require it; U.S.P.H.S. boasts that the only five percent of the people in others get the chance. The song goes on and on. You don t mind your water being chlorinated. Fluoridation is the same idea." Fluorine is a mineral nutrient, essential to the human body. We are merely advalue. justing it to the optimum scientific are antis the These people What are we waiting for? Why dont we go ahead and fluoridate . We dare not let water supplies? these people the Opposition write a whole new standard for ns when we write oar dental program. . . . We tell them this, that one part per million dental fluorosis brings about the most beautiful teeth anyone ever had. This toxicity question is a difficult one. I cant give you the ansu'er on it. . . . Lay off it altogether, fust pass it over. . . . "We know there is absolutely no effect other than reducing decay you say and go on. .. . Invite your aldermen and mayor. Have your water man there . . . dont fail to push community responsibility. . . . Your local dental society, the PTA, any of them this is their BABY. They have got to get an ordinance passed. Let me tell you the PTA is a honey when it comes to fluoridation. . . . Give them all youve got. . . . And keep fluoridation from going to a referendum! Well, that was the blueprint. Dr. BuH was pushed, worried. If the Opposition had clobbered fluorides then, mass medication would have been done for. But nobody seemed to care. Meanwhile, the fluoridation crowd took Dr. Bull's adn vice to heart, and hired the L. Edward Bernays, to opinion maker, "engineer public consent." And engineer it he did, according to his own philosophy: well-know- well-teste- d The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses must be done by experts . . the invisible rulers who control the destinies of millions. A united leadership ... And there you have the modus operands of all bureaucracy. In the twenty-fou- r took the years since Newburgh plunge, fluoridation has been accepted as a medical necessity by most people. Few fear it because fluorine, working hand. craftily, has not yet shown its full is harmless; Millions believe it utterly millions more concede that a slight mottling of the teeth is the inoffensive price to pay. The Promoters are serene; their arrogance, their continuous insistence th.it the practice is safe and that it does help and beautify the teeth, their highhanded treatment of all dissenters all indicate the deliberate Big Lie. Well, we shall soon know, as fluorine takes over. For neither public health officials nor dentists can change the path of a single fluorine ion once it enters the human body. Only nature can do that. Dr. Robert Kehoe, outstanding scientist and head of the famous Kettering Laboratory, jointly owned by Ethyl Gas, Frigidaire, and DuPont, says: The question of the public safety of fluoridation is nonexistent from the viewpoint of medical science. Trouble is, Kehoe is not a medical doctor, and he does owe allegiance to interested parties. Today, all over the world, many doctors of medicine strongly disagree with him. Their first National Symposium, including many concerned laymen, was held in Washington in February of 1966, providing a public forum for physicians, dentists, and scientists of the highest reputation. Categorically, they disagreed with Kehoe, indicating that more and more informed specialists are coming to believe that the Promoters of fluoridation are wrong. Dead wrong. Ill The of kept science, so far as fluoride is concerned, is ending, and the research on it is passing into the hands of men who have no allegiance except to Truth. Several of these workers are winners of the Nobel Prize; all are movingahead quietly, publishing freeday ly in foreign countries. Their findings have long since passed the point of doubt. The insidious toxic condition of fluorosis" is no myth. Statistically, 700,000 people are believed to be suffering early effects of fluoride poisoning in America alone. The panorama of bodily damage falls into the following Continued On Page 9 |