The Flouride Conspiracy

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The Flouride Conspiracy

Submitted by goers on July 29, 2005 - an ekosTV User

 

 

The Fluoride Conspiracy

 

 

 

 

" Tell a lie loud enough and long enough and people will believe it. "

 

- Adolf Hitler

 

" Fluoridation is the greatest case of scientific fraud of this century. "

 

- Robert Carlton, Ph.D, former EPA scientist, 1992

 

 

 

The history of forcing fluoride on humans through the fluoridation of

drinking water is wrought with lies, greed and deception. Governments

that add fluoride to drinking water supplies insist that it is safe,

beneficial and necessary, however, scientific evidence shows that

fluoride is not safe to ingest and areas that fluoridate their

drinking water supplies have higher rates of cavities, cancer, dental

fluorosis, osteoporosis and other health problems. Because of the push

from the aluminum industry, pharmaceutical companies and weapons

manufacturers, fluoride continues to be added to water supplies all

over North America and due to recent legal actions against water

companies that fluoridate drinking water supplies, precedent has been

set that will make it impossible for suits to be filed against water

suppliers that fluoridate. There is a growing resistance against

adding toxic fluoride to our water supplies, but unfortunately,

because fluoride has become " the lifeblood of the modern industrial

economy " (Bryson 2004), there is too much money at stake for those who

endorse water fluoridation . The lies of the benefits of water

fluoridation will continue to be fed to the public, not to encourage

health benefits to a large number of people, but to profit the

military-industrial complex.

 

The story begins in 1924, when Interessen Gemeinschaft Farben (I.G.

Farben), a German chemical manufacturing company, began receiving

loans from American bankers, gradually leading to the creation of the

huge I.G. Farben cartel. In 1928 Henry Ford and American Standard Oil

Company (The Rockefellers) merged their assets with I.G. Farben, and

by the early thirties, there were more than a hundred American

corporations which had subsidiaries and co-operative understandings in

Germany. The I.G. Farben assets in America were controlled by a

holding Company, American I.G. Farben, which listed on it's board of

directors: Edsel Ford, President of the Ford Motor Company, Chas. E.

Mitchell, President of Rockerfeller's National City Bank of New York,

Walter Teagle, President of Standard Oil New York, Paul Warburg,

Chairman of the federal reserve and brother of Max Warburg, financier

of Germany's War effort, Herman Metz, a director of the Bank of

Manhattan, controlled by the Warburgs, and a number of other members,

three of which were tried and convicted as German war criminals for

their crimes against humanity. In 1939 under the Alted agreement, the

American Aluminum Company (ALCOA), then the worlds largest producer of

sodium fluoride, and the Dow Chemical Company transferred its

technology to Germany. Colgate, Kellogg, Dupont and many other

companies eventually signed cartel agreements with I.G. Farben,

creating a powerful lobby group accurately dubbed " the fluoride

mafia " (Stephen 1995).

 

At the end of World War II, the US government sent Charles Eliot

Perkins, a research worker in chemistry, biochemistry, physiology and

pathology, to take charge of the vast Farben chemical plants in

Germany. The German chemists told Perkins of a scheme which they had

devised during the war and had been adapted by the German General

Staff. The German chemists explained of their attempt to control the

population in any given area through the mass medication of drinking

water with sodium fluoride, a tactic used in German and Russian

prisoner of war camps to make the prisoners " stupid and

docile " (Stephen 1995). Farben had developed plans during the war to

fluoridate the occupied countries because it was found that

fluoridation caused slight damage to a specific part of the brain,

making it more difficult for the person affected to defend his freedom

and causing the individual to become more docile towards authority.

Fluoride remains one of the strongest anti-psychotic substances known,

and is contained in twenty-five percent of the major tranquilizers. It

may not seem surprising that Hitler's regime practiced the concept of

mind control through chemical means, but the American military

continued Nazi research, exploring techniques to incapacitate an enemy

or medicate an entire nation. As stated in the Rockerfeller Report, a

Presidential briefing on CIA activities, " the drug program was part of

a much larger CIA program to study possible means of controlling human

behavior " (Stephen 1995).

 

The `dental caries prevention myth' associated with fluoride,

originated in the United States in 1939, when a scientist named Gerald

J. Cox, employed by ALCOA, the largest producer of toxic fluoride

waste and at the time being threatened by fluoride damage claims,

fluoridated some lab rats, concluded that fluoride reduced cavities

and claimed that it should be added to the nation's water supplies. In

1947, Oscar R. Ewing, a long time ALCOA lawyer, was appointed head of

the Federal Security Agency , a position that placed him in charge of

the Public Health Service(PHS). Over the next three years,

eighty-seven new American cities began fluoridating their water,

including the control city in a water fluoridation study in Michigan,

thus eliminating the most scientifically objective test of safety and

benefit before it was ever completed.

 

American `education and research' was funded by the Aluminum

Manufacturing, Fertilizer and Weapons Industry looking for an outlet

for the increasingly mounting fluoride industrial waste while

attaining positive profit increase. The `discovery' that fluoride

benefited teeth, was paid for by industry that needed to be able to

defend " lawsuits from workers and communities poisoned by industrial

fluoride emissions " (Bryson 1995) and turn a liability into an asset.

Fluoride, a waste constituent in the manufacturing processes of

explosives, fertilizers and other `necessities', was expensive to

dispose of properly and until a `use' was found for it in America's

water supplies, the substance was only considered a toxic, hazardous

waste. Through sly public re-education, fluoride, once a waste

product, became the active ingredient in fluorinated pesticides,

fungicides, rodenticides, anesthetics, tranquilizers, fluorinated

pharmaceuticals, and a number of industrial and domestic products,

fluorinated dental gels, rinses and toothpastes. Fluoride is so much a

part of a multibillion-dollar industrial and pharmaceutical income,

that any withdrawal of support from pro-fluoridationists is

financially impossible, legally unthinkable and potentially

devastating for their career and reputation.

 

Funded by US industrialists, in an attempt to encourage public

acceptance of fluoride, Edward Bernays, known also as the father of

PR, or the original spin doctor, began a campaign of deception to

persuade public opinion. Barnays explained " you can get practically

any idea accepted if doctors are in favour. The public is willing to

accept it because a doctor is an authority to most people, regardless

of how much he knows or doesn't know " (Bryson 2004). Doctors who

endorsed fluoridation didn't know that research discrediting

fluoride's safety was either suppressed or not conducted in the first

place. Fluoride became equated with scientific progress and since it

was introduced to the public as a health-enhancing substance, added to

the environment for the children's sake, those opposing fluoride were

dismissed as cranks, quacks and lunatics. Fluoride became impervious

to criticism because of a relentless PR offensive, but also because of

it's overall toxicity. Unlike chemicals that have a signature effect,

fluoride, a systemic poison, produces a range of health problems, so

it's effects are more difficult to diagnose.

 

Recently declassified US Military documents such as Manhattan Project,

shows how Fluoride is the key chemical in atomic bomb production and

millions of tonnes of it were needed for the manufacture of bomb-grade

uranium and plutonium. Fluoride poisoning, not radiation poisoning,

emerged as the leading chemical health hazard for both workers and

nearby communities. A-bomb scientists were ordered to provide evidence

useful for defense in litigation, so they began secretly testing

fluoride on unsuspecting hospital patients and indignant, mentally

retarded children.. " The August 1948 Journal of the American Dental

Association shows that evidence of adverse effects from fluoride was

censored by the US Atomic Energy Commission for reasons of " national

security " (Griffiths 1998). The only report released stated that

fluoride was safe for humans in small doses.

 

During the Cold War, Dr. Harold C. Hodge, who had been the

toxicologist for the US Army Manhattan Project, was the leading

scientific promoter of water fluoridation. While Dr. Hodge was

reassuring congress of the safety of water fluoridation, he was

covertly conducting one of the nation's first public water

fluoridation experiments in Newburgh, New York, secretly studying

biological samples from Newburgh citizens at his US laboratory at the

University of Rochester. Since there are no legal constraints against

the suppression of scientific data, the only published conclusion

resulting from these experiments was that fluoride was safe in low

doses, a profoundly helpful verdict for the US Military who feared

lawsuits for fluoride injury from workers in nuclear power plants and

munitions factories. Fluoride pollution was one of the biggest legal

worries facing key US industrial sectors during the cold war. A secret

group of corporate attorneys, known as the Fluorine Lawyers Committee,

whose members included US Steel, ALCOA, Kaiser Aluminum, and Reynolds

Metals, commissioned research at the Kettering Laboratory at the

University of Cincinnati to " provide ammunition " (Bryson 2004) for

those corporations who were fighting a wave of citizen claims for

fluoride injury. The Fluorine Lawyers Committee and their medical

ambassadors were in personal and frequent contact with the senior

officials of the federal National Institute for Dental Research, and

have been implied in the `burying' of the forty year old Kettering

study, which showed that fluoride poisoned the lungs and lymph nodes

in laboratory animals. Private interests, sought to destroy careers

and censor information by ensuring that scientific studies raising

doubts about the safety of fluoride never got funded, and if they did,

never got published.

 

During the 1990's, research conducted by Harvard toxicologist Phillis

Mullenix showed that fluoride in water may lead to lower IQ's, and

produced symptoms in rats strongly resembling attention deficit and

hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). Just days before her research was

accepted for publication, Mullenix was fired as the head of toxicology

at the Forsyth Dental Center in Boston. Then her application for a

grant to continue her fluoride and central nervous system research was

turned down by the US National Institute of Health (NIH), when an NIH

panel told her that " fluoride does not have central nervous system

effects " (Griffiths 1998).

 

Despite growing evidence that it is harmful to public health, US

federal and state pubic health agencies and large dental and medical

organizations such as the American Dental Association (ADA), continue

to promote fluoride. Water fluoridation continues, despite the

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)'s own scientists, whose union,

Chapter 280 of the National Treasury Employees Union, has taken a

strong stand against it. Dr. William Hirzy, vice president of Chapter

280, stated that " fluoride (that is added to municipal water) is a

hazardous waste product for which there is substantial evidence of

adverse health effects and, contrary to public perception, virtually

no evidence of significant benefits " ( Mullenix 1998). Although

fluoride is up to fifty times more toxic than sulfur dioxide, it is

still not regulated as an air pollutant by the American Clean Air Act.

Since thousands of tonnes of industrial fluoride waste is poured into

drinking water supplies all over North America, supposedly to

encourage gleaming smiles in our children, big industry in the US has

the benefit of emitting as much fluoride waste into the environment as

they like with absolutely no requirement to measure emissions and no

way of being held accountable for poisoning people, animals and

vegetation.

 

In August 2003, the EPA requested that the National Research Council,

the research arm of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS),

re-evaluate water fluoride safety standards by reviewing recent

scientific literature, because the last review in 1993 had major gaps

in research. " Neither the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA), nor

the National Institute for Dental Research (NIDR), nor the American

Academy of Pediatric Dentistry has any proof on fluoride's safety or

effectiveness " (Sterling 1993). The International Academy of Oral

Medicine and Toxicology has classified fluoride as an unapproved

dental medicament due to it's high toxicity and the US National Cancer

Institute Toxicological Program has found fluoride to be an " equivocal

carcinogen " (Maurer 1990).

 

Currently the US government is continuing to introduce further

fluoridation schemes throughout the country, including the Water Act

passed in November 2003, which has made it impossible for water

companies to undergo civil or criminal hearings as a result of adding

fluoride to public water supplies.

 

In a society where products containing asbestos, lead, beryllium and

many other carcinogens have been recalled from the marketplace, it is

surprising that fluoride is embraced so thoroughly and blindly. It

seems absurd that we would consider paying the chemical industry to

dispose of their toxic waste by adding it to our water supply. Hiding

the hazards of fluoride pollution from the public is a

capitalist-style con job of epic proportions that has occurred because

a powerful lobby wishes to manipulate public opinion in order to

protect it's own financial interests. " 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 1991).