Video: 1945 Human Experiment Predicts Current Fluoride Ill Effects

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Video: 1945 Human Experiment Predicts Current Fluoride Ill Effects

 

Sally Stride

OpEdNews

January 22, 2008

 

 

 

In 1945 dentists set out to prove that adding fluoride chemicals into

public water supplies safely prevented children's tooth decay. The

studies failed; but early fluoridationists ignored this inconvenient

truth and forged ahead. Now with 2/3 of public water supplies

fluoridated, Americans are fluoride overdosed and suffer from

fluoride's toxic effects as cavity rates climb.

 

In 1955, ten years into the experiment, researchers reported more bone

defects, anemia and earlier female menstruation in children purposely

dosed with sodium fluoride-laced drinking water (1956 Journal of the

American Dental Association). This is the first, and only,

fluoridation human health experiment which was carried out on the

entire population in the city of Newburgh NY.

 

How did this happen?

 

In the early 1900's, brown and yellow discolored, but decay resistant,

teeth were prevalent in healthier, wealthier U.S. populations drinking

and irrigating their crops with naturally calcium-fluoridated water.

 

Researchers discovered fluoride was the tooth discoloring culprit and

mistakenly thought fluoride was also the cavity-fighting hero –

unaware that calcium was required to grow sound dentition. And also

unaware of Dentist Weston Price's extensive research published in 1939

showing that without fluoride, healthier populations had healthier

teeth because of good diets.

 

Public health officials, so sure sodium fluoride safely benefited

children's teeth, had no misgivings about carrying out this very

unusual experiment without first doing animal studies, without

informed consent and without thought or interest about how sodium

fluoride could afflict adults.

 

Mistakenly assuming all fluorides are the same, in 1945, sodium

fluoride, waste products from industries such as Alcoa Aluminum

Company (not natural calcium-fluoride), was added to Newburgh NY's

water supply at about one milligram fluoride per liter of water.

Kingston NY, the control city for comparison purposes, was left

fluoride-free.

 

Kingston and Newburgh are thirty-five miles apart on the Hudson River

in New York State and in 1940 had populations of 31,956 and 28,817,

respectively. In Newburgh, 500 children were examined after ten years

and 405 in Kingston. Adults were never tested.

 

Although planned to last ten years, due to political pressure, the

Newburgh/Kingston study was declared a success after five years which

caused many U.S. cities to start fluoridation prematurely.

 

Newburgh's children were given complete physicals and x-rays, over the

course of the study, from birth to age nine in the first year and up

to age eighteen in the final year.

 

" ®outine laboratory studies were omitted in the control group during

most of the study, they were included in the final examination, "

according to Schlesinger and colleagues, in " Newburgh-Kingston

caries-fluorine study XIII. Pediatric findings after ten years. "

 

The researchers report after ten years of fluoridation in Newburgh New

York:

 

– " The average age at the menarche was 12 years among the girls

studied in Newburgh and 12 years 5 months among the girls in Kingston. "

 

–Hemoglobin (iron-containing part of a red blood cell): " a few more

children in the range below 12.9 grams per hundred milliliters in

Newburgh "

 

– " …a slightly higher proportion of children in Newburgh were found to

have a total erythrocyte (red blood cell) count below 4,400,000 per

milliliter "

 

–Knee X-rays of Newburgh children reveals more cortical bone defects,

and irregular mineralization of the thigh bone.

 

Only twenty-five Newburgh children had eye and ear exams. Two had

hearing loss; eight had abnormal vision. Even though researchers

discovered more adult cataracts in surveys conducted before 1944 in

communities with naturally high water fluoride concentrations Newburgh

and Kingston adults were never checked for this defect.

 

Only two groups of twelve-year-old boys were tested for fluoride's

toxic kidney effects.

 

In a statewide survey conducted in 1954, J. A. Forst, M.D a New York

public health official reported observing one-third more dental

defects, including malposition of teeth, in fluoridated Newburgh, New

York, than in the non-fluoridated control city of Kingston.

 

 

 

The 2004 book " The Fluoride Deception, " by Christopher Bryson, reveals

that in addition to NYS Dep't of Health examinations " the University

of Rochester conducted its own studies, measuring how much fluoride

Newburgh citizens retained in their blood and tissues. Health

Department personnel cooperated, shipping blood and placenta samples

to the Rochester scientists, " writes Bryson. Three times as much

fluoride was found in the placentas and blood samples gathered from

Newburgh as from non-fluoridated Rochester, reports Bryson.

 

Following back the scientific references in all current fluoridation

safety literature will invariably lead back to the Newburgh/Kingston

study which actually failed to prove fluoridation is safe for all who

drink it although public health officials and dentists tell a

different story..

 

On January 25, 1945, Grand Rapids Michigan was actually the first U.S.

city to fluoridate; without health effects measured. Even that study

is scientifically dishonest. After five years tooth decay declined

equally in Grand Rapids and its control city Muskegon Michigan so

Muskegon's water was fluoridated which actually invalidated this

experiment.

 

So it's not surprising that a toxicological review of current fluoride

science by the prestigious National Academies shows that fluoride

jeopardizes health - even at lowlevels deliberately added to public

water supplies.

 

Fluoride poses risks to the thyroid gland, diabetics, kidney patients,

high water drinkers and others and can severely damage children's

teeth. Further studies linking fluoride to cancer and lowered IQ are

plausible, they report.

 

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