Prominent Researcher Apologizes for Pushing Fluoride

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Misty L. Trepke

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Prominent Research Apologizes for Pushing Fluoride

 

This article has been posted in the past and is also in our

archives, but it is a good example of what goes on year after year,

for long periods of time. 25 years, 50years, 100 years.

 

It mainly was because that there was no available source of true

information to the masses of people and they had no choice but to

rely on the " authorities " of the day to tell them what was

the " true " information..

 

Unfortunately, the " authorities " were spokespersons for large

special interest groups instead of the public. That has been a

pattern for over 150 years in the USA.

 

The internet has changed that, information is becoming available to

the average person if they want to find out what is true for

themselves and put in the effort involved to find it.

 

This pattern of the promotion of special interests over the public

safety and wellbeing is rampant in most areas of our lives and most

people do not recognize it, whether it concerns our food, water,

health care, etc. or many, many other areas.

 

You are being lied to about most things in your life, you have just

been programmed to believe it. Take a chance and open your mind.

Look deeper, read alternative viewpoints, etc.

 

If no one cares and does nothing, they win everything automatically

by default. They are so confident that the public masses are so

ignorant, lazy, stupid, egocentric, medicated, sidetracked by

frivolous entertainments, etc. that they can do as they please to us

and no one will say much.

 

I sure hope that they are wrong!!!!

 

Frank

 

Mon, 1 Sep 2003 10:31:02 -0400

Prominent Research Apologizes for Pushing Fluoride

(Planetnews)

 

 

Prominent Researcher Apologizes for Pushing Fluoride

by Barry Forbes

 

The Tribune, Mesa, AZ

 

Sunday, December 5, 1999

 

" Why'd you do it, Doc? Why'd you toss the fluoride folks overboard? "

I had just tracked down Dr. Hardy Limeback, B.Sc., Ph.D in

Biochemistry, D.D.S., head of the Department of Preventive Dentistry

for the University of Toronto, and president of the Canadian

Association for Dental Research. (Whew.) Dr. Limeback is Canada's

leading fluoride authority and, until recently, the country's

primary promoter of the controversial additive.

 

In a surprising newsmaker interview this past April, Dr. Limeback

announced a dramatic change of heart. " Children under three should

never use fluoridated toothpaste, " he counseled. " Or drink

fluoridated water. And baby formula must never be made up using

Toronto tap water. Never. "

 

Why, I wondered? What could have caused such a powerful paradigm

shift? " It's been building up for a couple of years, " Limeback told

me during a recent telephone interview.

 

" But certainly the crowning blow was the realization that we have

been dumping contaminated fluoride into water reservoirs for half a

century. The vast majority of all fluoride additives come from Tampa

Bay, Florida smokestack scrubbers. The additives are a toxic

byproduct of the super-phosphate fertilizer industry. "

 

" Tragically, " he continued, " that means we're not just dumping toxic

fluoride into our drinking water. We're also exposing innocent,

unsuspecting people to deadly elements: lead, arsenic and radium,

all of them carcinogenic. Because of the cumulative properties of

toxins, the detrimental effects on human health are catastrophic. "

 

A recent study at the University of Toronto confirmed Dr. Limeback's

worst fears. " Residents of cities that fluoridate have double the

fluoride in their hip bones vis-a-vis the balance of the population.

Worse, we discovered that fluoride is actually altering the basic

architecture of human bones. " Skeletal fluorosis is a debilitating

condition that occurs when fluoride accumulates in bones, making

them extremely weak and brittle.

 

The earliest symptoms? " Mottled and brittle teeth, " Dr. Limeback

told me. " In Canada we are now spending more money treating dental

fluorosis than we do treating cavities. That includes my own

practice. "

 

One of the most obvious living experiments today, Dr. Limeback

believes, is a proof-positive comparison between any two Canadian

cities. " Here in Toronto we've been fluoridating for 36 years. Yet

Vancouver, which has never fluoridated, has a cavity rate lower than

Toronto's. " And, he pointed out, cavity rates are low all across the

industrialized world, including Europe, which is 98% fluoride free.

Low because of improved standards of living, less refined sugar,

regular dental checkups, flossing and frequent brushing.

Now less than 2 cavities per child Canada-wide, he said.

 

" I don't get it, Doc. Last month, the Centers for Disease Control

(CDC) ran a puff piece all across America saying the stuff was

better than sliced bread. What's the story? " " Unfortunately, " he

replied, " the CDC is basing its position on data that is 50 years

old, and questionable at best. Absolutely no one has done research

on fluorosilicates, which is the junk they're dumping into the

drinking water. " " On the other hand, " he added, " the evidence

against systemic fluoride in-take continues to pour in. "

 

" But Doc, the dentists. " " I have absolutely no training in

toxicity, " he stated firmly. " Your well-intentioned dentist is

simply following 50 years of misinformation from public health and

the dental association. Me, too. Unfortunately, we were wrong. "

 

Last week, Dr. Hardy Limeback addressed his faculty and students at

the University of Toronto, Department of Dentistry. In a poignant,

memorable meeting, he apologized to those gathered before him.

 

" Speaking as the head of preventive dentistry, I told them that I

had unintentionally mislead my colleagues and my students. For the

past 15 years, I had refused to study the toxicology information

that is readily available to anyone. Poisoning our children was the

furthest thing from my mind. "

 

" The truth, " he confessed to me, " was a bitter pill to swallow. But

swallow it I did. "

 

South of the border, the paradigm shift has yet to dawn. After half

a century of delusion, the CDC, American Dental Association and

Public Health stubbornly and skillfully continue to manipulate

public opinion in favor of fluoridation.

 

Meantime, study after study is delivering the death knell of the

deadly toxin. Sure, fluoridation will be around for a long time yet,

but ultimately its supporters need to ready the life rafts. The

poisonous waters of doubt and confusion are bound to get choppier.

 

" Are lawsuits inevitable? " I asked the good doctor. " Remember

tobacco, " was his short, succinct reply. Welcome, Dr. Hardy

Limeback, to the far side of the fluoride equation. It's lonely over

here, but in our society loneliness and truth frequently travel hand

in hand. Thank you for the undeniable courage of your convictions.

 

Want more scientific information about fluoride/fluoridation? Find

it on thenet.

 

International Society for Fluoride Research

http://www.fluoride-journal.com

 

Dental Fluorosis http://www.inter-view.net/~sherrell

 

IAOMT Risk Assessment for ingested fluoride http://www.SaveTeeth.org

 

" We have a duty to look after each other. If we lose control of our

government, then we lose our ability to dispense justice and human

kindness. Our first priority today, then, is to defeat utterly those

forces of greed and corruption that have come between us and our

self-governance. "