The dark side of fluoride explored
Dr Robert C Dickson
In both Canada and Australia,
pro-fluoridation advocates have had a field day, citing claims that
seemingly support their position to fluoridate water. Many of those
claims are misleading or erroneous and incorrect.
In the early to mid 1900s, dentists
noticed several communities where people, and particularly
children, had
white and brown staining on their teeth and fewer cavities. Their water
contained natural calcium fluoride, which is ubiquitous in the Earth’s
crust. They concluded fluoride must be good for teeth.
Fast forward to WWII and the Manhattan
Project. Large quantities of fluorine were essential to produce atomic
weapons. Yet workers in these facilities, and plants and animals around
them, were doing poorly, some even dying.
This created an unusual liaison between
the military, medical and dental establishment, and the industries
saddled with disposing of their highly toxic and regulated by-product,
hydrofluosilicic acid (HFSA).
Their solution was to enlist the master
spin doctor of the 20th century, Edward Bernays, whom the tobacco
companies had hired prior to the war to convince women that smoking was
good for them.
Within a very short time, studies were
set up and cherry picked, and doctors and dentists bought into the new
wave of ‘science’ – fluoride is good for kids! The sacred cow of water
fluoridation was born.
The chemistry
There are essentially three types of
fluoride: natural calcium fluoride, found in much of our rock and rivers
and in most of the Earth’s crust; pharmaceutical-grade sodium fluoride
that is in most toothpastes, fluoride rinses, prescriptions, and dental
office treatments; and HFSA, the highly toxic waste product scrubbed out
of industry stacks in the southern US, China and other parts of the
world along with traces of lead, mercury, cadmium, arsenic and other
highly unsavoury and harmful toxins.
It is HFSA that is used to fluoridate water in virtually all jurisdictions in Australia, Canada, the US and NZ.
This is a huge boon to industry which,
instead of paying dearly to dispose of this toxic by-product, now sells
it to municipalities to dispose of in our water supply. It therefore
ends up in our bodies, or flows unchecked into the environment after
washing our cars and flushing our toilets – where it was not allowed
originally by strict law.
The significance here is that natural
calcium fluoride is tightly bound and therefore much less is released
when ingested into the human body, whereas HFSA, which is ionised
immediately, is absorbed quickly and easily in the gut, and crosses the
blood-brain barrier, the placental barrier, and has access to virtually
every cell, organ and system in the human body.
Ethics and morality
According to the United Nations, everyone
has the right to clean, unmedicated water. Forcing mass medication on
entire populations, without informed consent, and without monitoring,
checking its levels in the human body, or studying short- or long-term
effects, is the epitome of poor, unethical and unprofessional medicine.
Fluoride is a medication according to
major health bodies worldwide, and strict control is required in dental
offices and through physician prescriptions. And yet the collusion of
industry and health associations, backed by huge corporations, has
bypassed these checks and balances.
Health associations and organisations
patronisingly attempt to assuage public concern by repeating their
mantra of safety as they control concentrations of fluoride in our
water.
These advocates never address the fact
that dose, the amount of a drug consumed, and dosage, the amount of drug
per kilogram of body weight, have little to do with concentration.
Therefore a 50kg woman who runs marathons
and drinks ten glasses of fluoridated water daily gets ten times the
dose as a sedentary office worker drinking only one glass per day.
No consent, no control of dose or dosage, no monitoring or follow-up – highly unethical in every sense and meaning of the word.
Where we are now
Byron Shire remains one of the few
bastions of common sense and protectors of human rights in this country,
as much of Australia has submitted to mass artificial water
fluoridation.
Dentists, public health officials and
many politicians, none of whom are toxicologists, continue to push for
fluoridation when more than 97 per cent of communities in Europe,
British Columbia and Quebec in Canada have eliminated this antiquated
practice.
In fact, more than 5,000 professionals
worldwide have had the courage to publicly call for an end to
fluoridation and, of special note, less than six per cent of the world
is fluoridated.
Interesting that Labor health critic Walt Secord speaks of ‘a
tiny group of conspiracy theorists’. We wonder if he also includes the
14 Nobel laureates in Medicine who are strongly opposed to this mass
medication?
Well-intentioned fluoridation proponents
such as Mr Secord say they’re helping children and the poor. Ironically,
it’s infants, children, the underprivileged, the chronically ill,
elderly and people of colour who are most susceptible to harm from, and
the side effects of, fluoridation.
Medical error
Medical science has historically and
frequently made errors. Medical and dental associations have endorsed
smoking, asbestos, lead, BPA, mercury, thalidomide, Vioxx and many other
dangerous products.
Just as they were wrong then, they’re
wrong again, despite Mr Secord’s insinuation that it is ‘mind boggling
that any group would oppose water fluoridation’. Indeed, it is beyond
reason and common sense that more groups don’t, or won’t, oppose this
enforced mass medication.
Fluoride, after all, is not necessary for
any body function, unlike calcium, vitamins B and D, or iodine, which
are essential to health; or chlorination, which kills organisms before
they reach our bodies.Artificial water fluoridation is not safe, ethical
or effective.
♦ Robert C Dickson, MD, CCFP, FCFP, is a
community physician in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, and is the founder of
Safe Water Calgary (www.safewatercalgary.com).
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