Precious Bodily Fluids
By Bret Burquest
In the 1964 cold-war movie classic
"Dr. Strangelove," General Jack D. Ripper (Sterling Hayden) was a bit
paranoid about the fluoridation of drinking water. “I can no longer sit back
and allow Communist infiltration, Communist indoctrination, Communist
subversion, and the international Communist conspiracy to sap and impurify all of our precious bodily fluids,” he declared,
then ordered a squadron of B-52s on a nuclear strike of the
The vast majority of dental
professionals, including my brother (an endodontist
in
According to "Applied
Chemistry, Second Edition" by William R. Stine, it was discovered in 1931
that the fluoride ion in drinking water was responsible for a defective dental
condition called mottled enamel. Also known as dental fluorosis,
this defect results from disturbance by fluoride of the enamel forming cells
during tooth formation and is one of the first signs of chronic fluoride
poisoning.
During the 1930s, the U.S. Public
Health Service concluded there was less tooth decay among children in
communities where dental fluorosis was found. Until
then, as a byproduct of aluminum manufacturing and fertilizer production,
fluoride was considered a dangerous substance and an environmental pollutant.
But when news spread of the positive use of fluoride in preventing tooth decay,
holders of toxic waste became clever profiteers of toxic waste. Even though
further studies in the 1930s indicated other factors in the drinking water were
responsible for the results, the profiteers won over and fluoride was
introduced into public water systems.
Fluoride is listed in the handbook
titled "Clinical Toxicology of Commercial Products" as more poisonous
than lead and just slightly less poisonous than arsenic. It’s classified as a
hazardous material during shipping.
According to "Physicians Desk
Reference" -- “in
hypersensitive individuals, fluorides occasionally cause skin eruptions such as
atopic dermatitis, eczema, or urticaria.
Gastric distress, headache, and weakness have also been reported. These
hypersensitive reactions usually disappear promptly after discontinuation of
the fluoride.”
The "Journal of the American
Medical Association" reported, in 1992, that increased hip fractures were
linked to rates of fluoride in the water. The "New England Journal of
Medicine" reported in the
Research in the 1970s by the
National Cancer Institute showed that more than 10,000 fluoride-linked cancer
deaths occur in this country each year. The Argonne National Laboratories
demonstrated in 1989 the ability of fluoride to transform normal cells into
cancerous cells. A study by Proctor and Gamble showed that as little as half
the amount of fluoride in public water supplies resulted in a significant
increase in genetic damage.
Dr. Michael B. Schachter
contends, “fluoride even at dosages of one part per million, found in
fluoridated water, can inhibit enzyme systems, damage the immune system,
contribute to calcification of soft tissues, worsen arthritis and cause dental fluorosis in children; up to 80% of the children in certain
fluoridated areas.”
If that isn’t scary enough, many
recent studies show that water fluoridation is ineffective in reducing tooth
decay. The U. S. Public Health Service, in the largest study of its kind,
examined the dental records of over 39,000 school children, ages 5-17, from 84
different areas around the country. The number of decayed,
missing and filled teeth per child were virtually the same in
fluoridated and non-fluoridated areas.
Because of evidence of harmful
effects, fluoridation has been abandoned in most of
As with most science these days, I
don’t know what to believe. But as a container of precious bodily fluids, I
tend to be cautious about what I eat, drink and breathe. I prefer my drinking
water to be void of toxic waste.
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Bret Burquest is an award-winning columns and author of four
novels. Contact bret@centurytel.net
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