-Caveat Lector- Dave Hartley http://www.Asheville-Computer.com http://www.ioa.com/~davehart Famous Quotes on Fluorides and Fluoridation part 3/3 "We ought to go slowly. Everybody knows that fluorine and fluorides are very poisonous substances and we use them in enzyme chemistry to poison enzymes, those vital agents in the body. That is the reason things are poisoned; because enzymes are poisoned, and that is why animals and plants die." Mr. James B. Sumner, Director of Enzyme Chemistry, Department of Biochemistry and Nutrition, Cornell University, and a Nobel Prize winner for his work in the field of enzyme chemistry. "No study in the past three decades has demonstrated any significant dental benefit from fluoridation. The older historical studies, on which claims of dental benefit are based, are so seriously flawed that most independent researchers conclude they should be ignored. In fact, several recent studies, here and abroad, show that fluoridation is correlated with higher caries rates, rather than lower ones." John R. Lee, M.D."The Truth About Fluoridation" "It is known as a scientific fact that fluoride is a deadly poison to enzymes, upon which all life depends." Dr. J.J. Rae, 20-year associate professor of chemistry, and Ph.D. in biochemistry and organics, Univ. of Toronto. "The fluoride ion exerts its toxic effect by inhibiting the action of many enzyme systems." Hugo Theorell, M.D., Nobel Prize winner for his research in the field of enzyme chemistry. "Contrary to what is widely assumed, the toxicity of fluoride is not always related to concentration. Under certain conditions fluoride toxicity actually increases as the concentration decreases. This is what is known as a paradoxical effect." Albert Schatz, Ph.D., M.C.R.S., Professor at the Univ. of Chile and co-discoverer of streptomycin. "The debate should not be the merits of fluoridation of the water supply, which is a public health problem, but rather the ethical aspects of universal fluoridation which creates an untenable situation for those individuals who are intolerant to fluorides. Do we have the moral right to create a situation from which the intolerant individual has no escape? The answer thus becomes very simple. Each individual should be granted the option to choose fluoride prophylaxis depending upon his need and tolerance. You have my permission to state my position and quote me as against universal fluoridation of the water supply." Ben F. Feingold, M.D., Chief Emeritus, Department of Allergy, Kaiser Permanente Medical Center, San Francisco Calif. (Dr. Feingold headed an organization which cares for hyperactive children, which has found, incidentally, that fluoride causes a severe adverse reaction upon the nervous system of hyperactive children. Coincidentally, so-called "Attention-Deficit-Disorder" or "A.D.D." is a common misdiagnosis for hyperactive or overly-enthusiastic children, and for which RITALIN is commonly prescribed. Thus, when a hyperactive child has an adverse reaction to FLUORIDE, he's commonly put on destructive RITALIN or fluoridated PROZAC as a "cure.") "It is of doubtful legality; it offends deep convictions concerning doctoring without consent; it is against the medical tradition of care for the individual; against the function of a public water supply; against sane economics; against the considered opinion of eminent nutritionists, biochemists, physiologists, pharmacologists, allergists, toxicologists; above all, it is against natural caution and common sense." Dr. C. G. Dobbs, Prof. of Microbiology, Univ. of North Wales, Associate Royal College of Science, formerly at King's College, Univ. of London. " Hereford, Texas has been called the TOWN WITHOUT A TOOTH ACHE. This is not true. But the phrase has been used effectively by the people interested in marketing SODIUM FLUORIDE all over the country. ...I believe that fluorine does in a mild way, retard cavities, but I also believe that the damage it does is far greater than any good it may appear to accomplish. It even makes the teeth so brittle and crumbly they can be treated only with difficulty, if at all. The dental investigators who came to our county some fifteen years ago did, in my opinion, make a serious mistake when they gave fluorine the credit for our good teeth, and overlooked the quality of food grown in our rich, well mineralized soil. Every person I found who had no dental caries, consumed much milk. Why use a poison, when correct food will maintain our bodies free from diseases and tooth decay? It is hellish and non-American to put poison in city water supplies and force citizens to drink it." George W. Heard, DDS, 15 March 1954. " ... My contact with fluoridation came about as a result of cancer research. In one project, various chemicals were added to the drinking water of mice susceptible to cancer in order to check the responsibility that some chemicals might delay the onset of the disease or prevent it altogether. Among the chemicals used in this research was sodium fluoride. Alfred Taylor, Ph.D, in a scientific letter appearing in the Oct. 2, 1965 issue of Saturday Review, June 1965. "The data indicated that drinking water with as little as 1 PPM shortened the life span of mice an average of nine per cent. This was true whether death was due to cancer or non-cancerous diseases. The only notice proponents of fluoridation gave to this work was to discredit it as much as possible. ... In experiments where the drug was added directly to suspensions of cancer tissue before inoculation into eggs or mice, sodium fluoride stimulated the growth of cancer tissue in concentrations of one part in more than 20 million. Scientists at Cambridge University (British Medical Journal, Oct 26, 1963) discovered that concentrations of sodium fluoride as low as one part in ten million inhibited the growth of a culture of human tissue. ... the growing weight of scientific evidence that water-borne fluorides, even at 1 ppm, have toxic possibilities must finally be recognized." ALFRED TAYLOR, Ph.D., Clayton Foundation, Biochemical Institute, University of Texas, Austin Texas, 1965. Some years later Dr. Taylor stated: "The terrifying conclusion of the studies was that fluorine greatly induced a cancer tumor growth. If doctors and the public can be made aware of this catastrophe, fluoridation shall end quickly. It will someday be recognized as the most lethal and stupid "Health Program" ever conceived by the mind of man, witch doctors and blood-letters not excepted." "In 1969 the country of Sweden intended to fluoridate their water supply due to the strong advice of Professor Yngve Ericsson, a Swedish dentist who was also the senior representative on the World Health Organization's Expert Committee on Fluoridation. However, it was then found that Professor Ericsson coincidentally was the holder of two highly-profitable patents on fluoride toothpaste!", 13 June 1970 the Gothenburg POST (Sweden); 5 Aug 1970 the NEWS REGISTER (Sweden); and 1 May 1970 NORSK FOLKEHELSELAG (Norway) TRANSLATED INTO ENGLISH: 1992: Statement by Pennsylvania Justice Flaherty, after 40 days of court hearings on fluoride: "... I entered an injunction against the fluoridation of the public water supply for a large portion of Allegheny County. ... In my view, the evidence is quite convincing that the addition of sodium fluoride to the public water supply at one part per million is extremely deleterious to the human body, and a review of the evidence will disclose that there was no convincing evidence to the contrary." Pennsylvania Supreme Court Justice John P. Flaherty (Townsend Letter For Doctors - June 1992, p. 450) "Of course there were also those gigantic financial benefits for the industries who could at least sell a poisonous waste product for stupendous amounts of money, but behind those financial assets loomed another spectre: the small powerful elite feeling the thrill of chemically manipulating a whole population." Dr. Hans Moolenburgh in his book "Fluoride: The Freedom Fight" "In 1978, the West German Association of Water and Gas Experts rejected fluoridation for legal reasons, and because "the so-caled optimal fluoride concentration of 1mg/liter is close to the dose at which long-term damage to the human body is to be expected." Chemical and Engineering News 8/1/88 "During the Fountain Congressional Hearings of 1977 the NCI admitted that they had relied upon no scientific data, whatsoever, when they claimed 25 years earlier that fluoride would be safe to add to the community water supplies. As a direct result of these hearings independent testing was ordered to begin immediately. Twelve years later they managed to produce a two year toxicological study of rats. They paid Battelle Research Institute of Columbus Ohio, an outside contractor, to run the study." David C. Kennedy, D.D.S. "The ACLU has never endorsed or taken any position on the merits of water fluoridation, not have we ever to my knowledge authorized the American Dental Association to list the ACLU as endorsing the practice." Ira Glasser, Executive Director, ACLU, January 21, 1997. "A review of recent scientific literature reveals a consistent pattern of evidence--hip fractures, skeletal fluorosis, the effect of fluoride on bone structure, fluoride levels in bones and osteosarcomas--pointing to the existence of causal mechanisms by which fluoride damages bones." New evidence on fluoridation. Diesendorf M, Colquhoun J, Spittle BJ, Everingham DN, Clutterbuck FW, Aust N Z J Public Health 1997 Apr 21:2 187-90 "The fifty-year-old fluoridation hypothesis has not been confirmed. Despite this, millions of people are still medicated with fluoride by government decree, on the assumption that this process has been proved to be entirely safe, and very efficacious in reducing dental caries. In fact, the scientific basis of fluoridation is very unsatisfactory. It is promoted, in the main, by emotion-based 'endorsements'rather than by scientifically-acceptable evidence." Sutton PR, Med Hypotheses 1988 Oct 27:2 153-6 "As you are all aware, there can be no legitimate debate about fluoridation because there is no scientific controversy about it - it remains safe, effective, efficient, and cost effective, regardless of what Frech and the other antifluoride ilk say about it. 135 million people drink fluoridated water in the U.S., with another 10 million drinking water that has natural fluoride at optimum levels. And the number is growing rapidly as we continue to fluoridate additional cities, despite the failed attempts of the fluorophobics. The world total approaches 300 million. 14,300 U.S. water systems fluoridate their drinking water for 10,500 cities, some cities since 1945...Spend your energy fluoridating communities. 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