fluoride, teeth and the atomic bomb

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Fluoride, Teeth And

The Atomic Bomb

 

Project Censored

12-11-5

 

 

Intorduction - The following article was commissioned by the Christian Science

Monitor in the spring of 1997. Despite much favorable comment from editors, and

full documentation, the story remains unpublished by the Monitor. By any

yardstick, this report was an award-winning scoop for any national paper. The

report offers a glimpse into the history of fluoride, a bio-accumulative toxic

that Americans ingest every day. The authors, Griffiths and Bryson, spent more

than a year on research. With the belief that the information should be withheld

no longer, the authors gave their report to Waste Not, and others, with a short

note: " use as you wish. "

 

This introduction is taken from Waste Not #414 (September 1997) where the

article was first published. The article went on to be nominated as the year's

18th most censored story in the 1998 Project Censored Series.

 

 

 

Fluoride, Teeth, and the Atomic Bomb

 

By Chris Bryson & Joel Griffiths

 

 

Some fifty years after the United States began adding fluoride to public water

supplies to reduce cavities in children's teeth, declassified government

documents are shedding new light on the roots of that still-controversial public

health measure, revealing a surprising connection between fluoride and the

dawning of the nuclear age.

 

Today, two thirds of U.S. public drinking water is fluoridated. Many

municipalities still resist the practice, disbelieving the government's

assurances of safety.

 

Since the days of World War II, when this nation prevailed by building the

world's first atomic bomb, U.S. public health leaders have maintained that low

doses of fluoride are safe for people, and good for children's teeth.

 

That safety verdict should now be re-examined in the light of hundreds of

once-secret WWII documents obtained by Griffiths and Bryson --including

declassified papers of the Manhattan Project, the U.S. military group that built

the atomic bomb.

 

Fluoride was the key chemical in atomic bomb production, according to the

documents. Massive quantities of fluoride-- millions of tons-- were essential

for the manufacture of bomb-grade uranium and plutonium for nuclear weapons

throughout the Cold War. One of the most toxic chemicals known, fluoride rapidly

emerged as the leading chemical health hazard of the U.S atomic bomb

program--both for workers and for nearby communities, the documents reveal.

 

Other revelations include:

 

* Much of the original proof that fluoride is safe for humans in low doses was

generated by A-bomb program scientists, who had been secretly ordered to provide

" evidence useful in litigation " against defense contractors for fluoride injury

to citizens. The first lawsuits against the U.S. A-bomb program were not over

radiation, but over fluoride damage, the documents show.

 

* Human studies were required. Bomb program researchers played a leading role

in the design and implementation of the most extensive U.S. study of the health

effects of fluoridating public drinking water--conducted in Newburgh, New York

from 1945 to 1956. Then, in a classified operation code-named " Program F, " they

secretly gathered and analyzed blood and tissue samples from Newburgh citizens,

with the cooperation of State Health Department personnel.

 

* The original secret version--obtained by these reporters--of a 1948 study

published by Program F scientists in the Journal of the American Dental

Association shows that evidence of adverse health effects from fluoride was

censored by the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) --considered the most

powerful of Cold War agencies-- for reasons of national security.

 

* The bomb program's fluoride safety studies were conducted at the University

of Rochester, site of one of the most notorious human radiation experiments of

the Cold War, in which unsuspecting hospital patients were injected with toxic

doses of radioactive plutonium. The fluoride studies were conducted with the

same ethical mind-set, in which " national security " was paramount.

 

* The U.S. government's conflict of interest--and its motive to prove fluoride

" safe " -- has not until now been made clear to the general public in the furious

debate over water fluoridation since the 1950's, nor to civilian researchers and

health professionals, or journalists.

 

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What's Wrong With fluoridation?... Follow the Money

 

Excerpts from The Secret War and

The Fluoride Conspiracy

 

By Dr. Geoffrey E. Smith

 

 

The U.S. National Academy of Sciences has always measured the safety of

fluoridation on the basis of one study of crippling skeletal fluorosis, which

was first published in 1935.

 

EPA's regulation for the maximum allowable concentration of fluoride in drinking

water was established for one purpose - to prevent this disease. However

crippling is the end stage of chronic fluoride poisoning. The earlier stages

involve gastrointestinal problems, arthritis, and osteoporosis. None of these

earlier symptoms are considered in the regulation ... only the end stage.

 

In 1985, when EPA raised the maximum contaminant level to 4 milligrams of

fluoride per liter of water, they used dosage figures miscalculated in 1953 by

Harold C. Hodge, who was chairman of the NAS committee on toxicology. Hodge's

original figures (20-80 mg/day for 10-20 years) were corrected by Hodge in 1979,

and by NAS in 1993. The corrected figures, based on Roholm's classic study of

workers in the cryolite industry, amount to 0.2 to 0.35 milligrams of fluoride

per kilogram of body weight per day, for eleven years. When extrapolated over a

lifetime of 55 to 96 years, these crippling dosage figures equal 1 milligram of

fluoride daily for each 55 pounds of body weight ... 0.04 mg/kg/day.

 

In the early years of water fluoridation, this dosage was not the norm. At that

time, water was virtually the only source of fluoride in the American diet. The

total intake for most adults was 0.02 mg/kg/day ... about one to one and a half

milligrams of fluoride daily.

 

Today, the figure is 0.095 mg/kg/day... from food and drinking water alone ...

more than 6 milligrams daily.

 

This increase in ingested fluoride, largely due to the use of artificial

fertilizers containing fluoride, pesticide residues, dental products, and modern

food processing, has changed a relatively safe dosage into one capable of

causing crippling deformities of the spine and major joints, as well as the

muscle pain associated with fibromyalgia.

 

Beer and wine often contain significant quantities of fluoride, as does

ordinary tea. Grape juice often contains even larger quantities of fluoride, due

to the widespread use of pesticides, which remain on the grape skin. Fluoride in

toothpaste can be absorbed through the tissues of the mouth, as well as

swallowed accidentally. Many prescription drugs also contain fluoride. None of

these items are labeled to indicate the quantity of fluoride added to the daily

dietary total. [cont'd]

 

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