Fwd: Prominent Research Apologizes for Pushing Fluoride

[Guest guest]

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 the

net.

 

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. "