The American Dental Association and the US Public Health Service rejected fluoridation up until 1931 and recognized that fluoride caused dental problems and that every effort should be made to remove such contamination from drinking water. (Fluoride the Aging Factor, p 140)
In 1943, an article in JAMA described fluoride as a poison that damaged enzyme systems even at a concentration of 1 PPM. The article showed concern about 25,000 tons of fluorine released into the atmosphere every year from the phosphate-fertilizer industry, (JAMA, Sept 18, 1943) {This is the provider of the fluosilicic acid currently used for water fluoridation in the San Francisco Bay Area. It also comes from as far as China.}
Then, the following year the Journal of the American Dental Association ran another article warning that fluoridated water caused osteoporosis, goiter, and spinal disease. They stated that "the potentialities for harm far outweigh those for good." (JADA, 1 Oct 1944).
ALCOA Aluminum, mega-giant producer of aluminum, was founded by Andrew Mellon, who was also appointed Secretary of Treasury. ALCOA funded a top research facility known as the Mellon Institute. In 1931, a Mellon Institute report by Gerald Cox suggested that 1 PPM fluoride added to drinking water would be good for the teeth. That was it. No studies, no comparisons, no data. All previous research studies had shown that fluoride was toxic. The US Public Health Service (USPHS) at that time was under the jurisdiction of the Secretary of Treasury -- Andrew Mellon, who also owned ALCOA.
The USPHS sponsored some research put out by their own Dr. HT Dean, manipulating data so that it "proved" that this same figure of 1 PPM resulted in reduction of tooth decay. So now there were two studies, one by Cox and one by Dean, both funded by agencies controlled by ALCOA, both supporting this arbitrary figure of 1 PPM fluoride that should be added to the water to lower tooth decay. Next sell it to the American Medical Association and the American Dental Association.
In 1944, ALCOA hired an attorney named Oscar Ewing at a salary of $750,000 per year. That same year Ewing was appointed to the Federal Security Administration. The USPHS was a division of the Federal Security Association. So now ALCOA's attorney was in a position to control the policies of the Public Health Service.
Edward L. Bernays, described by the Washington Post as the 'original spin doctor', was responsible for evolving the pro-fluoridation propaganda-and-disinformation machine. How anxious he was to put his uncle's ideas and methods of persuasion into action. (Dr. Y, p143) "Those who manipulate this unseen mechanism of society constitute an invisible government, which is the true ruling power of our country. Our minds are molded, our tastes formed, our ideas suggested, largely by men we have never heard of"- Bernays, (Propaganda). Bernays maintained that a well-oiled propaganda machine could make the public believe practically anything, even the exact opposite of what had been already proven by all existing scientific research. And this is exactly what Ewing needed in the case of fluoridation.
With help from "experts" of the Manhattan Project, like Harold Hodge, New York State politicians quickly learned which side their bread was buttered on. In May of 1945, the city of Newburgh, NY, was the first to "try" fluoridation. In the total absence of scientific proofs, a toxic industrial waste could be passed off on the public as a nutrient with necessary health benefits, to the eventual tune of $10 billion per year and growing.
The rest is history except the truth must emerge as it did with leaded gasoline after 40 years of research funded by the manufacturers of lead additives that financially benefitted from its addition to gasoline were found wrong and unethical! The US banned lead in indoor paint 44 years after most of Europe. Lead was not removed from food containers until 1993.
Now is the time to remove fluosilicic acid from our public-water supply! As far as the ADA's "respect for providing water-fluoridation information"- there seems to be a wide chasm between the truth and fabrication.
Join us March 22nd, 2013, and into the future to ban water fluoridation.
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