It's no surprise that the US government would look the other way when lower IQ and cancer are business as usual.
One of the major agencies that would look the other way is the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
---But suppose scientists within the EPA spoke out, revolted, and issued
official rebukes to their own Agency's position on fluorides?
Talk about cognitive dissonance. Contradiction. "We at the EPA know
fluorides are wonderful and safe and beautiful. Of course, our own
scientists disagree. Strongly. But don't worry, we're ignoring them.
And we're keeping their statements out of the press. Our position on
fluorides is administrative. It has nothing to do with science.
Anyway, we support cancer and plummeting IQ. They're wonderful."
Case in point, going back 17 years. Buckle up. Here is what the EPA Union of scientists had to say about fluoridation:
Quoting from a May 1, 1999, statement---
"Why EPA's Headquarters Union of Scientists Opposes Fluoridation"---written by William Hirzy, PhD, [Union of Scientists] Senior Vice-President, Chapter 280:
"...our opposition to drinking water fluoridation has grown, based on
the scientific literature documenting the increasingly out-of-control
exposures to fluoride, the lack of benefit to dental health from
ingestion of fluoride and the hazards to human health from such
ingestion. These hazards include acute toxic hazard, such as to people
with impaired kidney function, as well as chronic toxic hazards of gene
mutations, cancer, reproductive effects, neurotoxicity, bone pathology
and dental fluorosis."
"In support of this concern are results from two epidemiology studies
from China that show decreases in I.Q. in children who get more fluoride
than the control groups of children in each study. These decreases are
about 5 to 10 I.Q. points in children aged 8 to 13 years."
"Another troubling brain effect has recently surfaced: fluoride's
interference with the function of the brain's pineal gland. The pineal
gland produces melatonin which, among other roles, mediates the body's
internal clock, doing such things as governing the onset of puberty.
Jennifer Luke has shown that fluoride accumulates in the pineal gland
and inhibits its production of melatonin. She showed in test animals
that this inhibition causes an earlier onset of sexual maturity, an
effect reported in humans as well in 1956..."
"EPA fired the Office of Drinking Water's chief toxicologist, Dr.
William Marcus, who also was our local union's treasurer at the time,
for refusing to remain silent on the cancer risk issue. The judge who
heard the lawsuit he [Marcus] brought against EPA over the firing made
that finding---that EPA fired him over his fluoride work and not for the
phony reason put forward by EPA management at his dismissal. Dr. Marcus
won his lawsuit and is again at work at EPA."
"...data showing increases in osteosarcomas in young men in New Jersey,
Washington and Iowa based on their drinking fluoridated water. It was
his [Dr. Marcus'] analysis, repeated statements about all these and
other incriminating cancer data, and his requests for an independent,
unbiased evaluation of them that got Dr. Marcus fired."
"Regarding the effectiveness of fluoride in reducing dental cavities,
there has not been any double-blind study of fluoride's effectiveness as
a caries preventative. There have been many, many small scale,
selective publications on this issue that proponents cite to justify
fluoridation, but the largest and most comprehensive study, one done by
dentists trained by the National Institute of Dental Research, on over
39,000 school children aged 5-17 years, shows no significant differences
(in terms of decayed, missing and filled teeth) among caries [cavities]
incidences in fluoridated, non-fluoridated and partially fluoridated
communities. The latest publication on the fifty-year fluoridation
experiment in two New York cities, Newburgh and Kingston, shows the same
thing. The only significant difference in dental health between the two
communities as a whole is that fluoridated Newburgh, N.Y. shows about
twice the incidence of dental fluorosis (the first, visible sign of
fluoride chronic toxicity) as seen in non-fluoridated Kingston."
"John Colquhoun's publication on this point of efficacy is especially
important. Dr. Colquhoun was Principal Dental Officer for Auckland, the
largest city in New Zealand, and a staunch supporter of
fluoridation---until he was given the task of looking at the world-wide
data on fluoridation's effectiveness in preventing cavities. The paper
is titled,
'Why I changed My Mind About Water Fluoridation.'
In it Colquhoun provides details on how data were manipulated to
support fluoridation in English speaking countries, especially the U.S.
and New Zealand. This paper explains why an ethical public health
professional was compelled to do a 180 degree turn on fluoridation."
"...mutation studies...show that fluoride can cause gene mutations in
mammalian and lower order tissues at fluoride concentrations estimated
to be present in the mouth from fluoridated tooth paste. Further, there
were tumors of the oral cavity seen in the NTP cancer study...further
strengthening concern over the toxicity of topically applied fluoride."
"So, in addition to our concern over the toxicity of fluoride, we note
the uncontrolled -- and apparently uncontrollable -- exposures to
fluoride that are occurring nationwide via drinking water, processed
foods, fluoride pesticide residues and dental care products...For
governmental and other organizations to continue to push for
more
exposure in the face of current levels of over-exposure coupled with an
increasing crescendo of adverse toxicity findings is irrational and
irresponsible at best."
"We have also taken a direct step to protect the [EPA] employees we
represent from the risks of drinking fluoridated water...the union filed
a grievance, asking that EPA provide un-fluoridated drinking water to
its employees."
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