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Scientific Study Finds Fluoride Horror Stories Factual
Industrial by-product consumed by millions of Americans lowers IQ, causes
cancer

Paul Joseph Watson
Prison Planet
Tuesday, January 15, 2008
The establishment media will have to find a new tactic with which to
ridicule those who oppose the fluoridation of water after a major new
Scientific American report concluded that "Scientific attitudes toward
fluoridation may be starting to shift" as new evidence emerges of the
poison's link to disorders affecting teeth, bones, the brain and the thyroid
gland, as well as lowering IQ.
"Today almost 60 percent of the U.S. population drinks fluoridated water,
including residents of 46 of the nation's 50 largest cities," reports
Scientific American's Dan Fagin.
Fagin is an award-wining environmental reporter and Director of New York
University's Science, Health and Environmental Reporting Program.
"Outside the U.S., fluoridation has spread to Canada, the U.K., Australia,
New Zealand and a few other countries. Critics of the practice have
generally been dismissed as gadflies or zealots by mainstream researchers
and public health agencies in those countries as well as the U.S. (In other
nations, however, water fluoridation is rare and controversial.)"
Indeed, the zeitgeist for scoffing at those who spoke of the dangers of mass
medicating the public against their will with fluoride was the deranged and
paranoid character of General Ripper in the hit 1964 Peter Selllers movie
Dr. Strangelove.
But that stereotype is quickly fading as serious scientific research
uncovers proof that all the horror stories about sodium fluoride told down
the decades are essentially true.
The Scientific American study "Concluded that fluoride can subtly alter
endocrine function, especially in the thyroid -- the gland that produces
hormones regulating growth and metabolism."
The report also notes that "a series of epidemiological studies in China
have associated high fluoride exposures with lower IQ."
"Epidemiological studies and tests on lab animals suggest that high fluoride
exposure increases the risk of bone fracture, especially in vulnerable
populations such as the elderly and diabetics," writes Fagin.

Fagin interviewed Steven Levy, director of the Iowa Fluoride Study which
tracked about 700 Iowa children for sixteen years. Nine-year-old "Iowa
children who lived in communities where the water was fluoridated were 50
percent more likely to have mild fluorosis... than [nine-year-old] children
living in nonfluoridated areas of the state," writes Fagin.
The study adds to a growing literature of shocking scientific studies
proving fluoride's link with all manner of health defects, even as
governments in the west, including recently the UK, make plans to mass
medicate the population against their will with this deadly toxin.
In 2005, a study conducted at the Harvard School of Dental Health found that
fluoride in tap water directly contributes to causing bone cancer in young
boys.
"New American research suggests that boys exposed to fluoride between the
ages of five and 10 will suffer an increased rate of osteosarcoma - bone
cancer - between the ages of 10 and 19," according to a London Observer
article about the study.
Based on the findings of the study, the respected Environmental Working
Group lobbied to have fluoride in tap water be added to the US government's
classified list of substances known or anticipated to cause cancer in
humans.
Cancer rates in the U.S. have skyrocketed with one in three people now
contracting the disease at some stage in their life.
The link to bone cancer has also been discovered by other scientists, but a
controversy ensued after it emerged that Harvard Professor Chester Douglass,
who downplayed the connection in his final report, was in fact
editor-in-chief of The Colgate Oral Health Report, a quarterly newsletter
funded by Colgate-Palmolive Co., which makes fluoridated toothpaste.
An August 2006 Chinese study found that fluoride in drinking water damages
children's liver and kidney functions.
FACTS ABOUT FLUORIDE
- Fluoride is a waste by-product of the fertilizer and aluminum industry and
it's also a Part II Poison under the UK Poisons Act 1972.
- Fluoride is one of the basic ingredients in both PROZAC (FLUoxetene
Hydrochloride) and Sarin nerve gas (Isopropyl-Methyl-Phosphoryl FLUoride).
- USAF Major George R. Jordan testified before Un-American Activity
committees of Congress in the 1950's that in his post as U.S.-Soviet liaison
officer, the Soviets openly admitted to "Using the fluoride in the water
supplies in their concentration camps, to make the prisoners stupid, docile,
and subservient."
- The first occurrence of fluoridated drinking water on Earth was found in
Germany's Nazi prison camps. The Gestapo had little concern about fluoride's
supposed effect on children's teeth; their alleged reason for
mass-medicating water with sodium fluoride was to sterilize humans and force
the people in their concentration camps into calm submission. (Ref. book:
"The Crime and Punishment of I.G. Farben" by Joseph Borkin.)
- 97% of western Europe has rejected fluoridated water due to the known
health risks, however 10% of Britons drink it and the UK government is
trying to fast track the fluoridation of the entire country's water supply.
- In Germany, Belgium and Luxembourg fluoridation of water was rejected
because it was classified as compulsive medication against the subject's
will and therefore violated fundamental human rights.
- In November of 2006, the American Dental Association (ADA) advised that
parents should avoid giving babies fluoridated water.
- Sources of fluoride include: fluoride dental products, fluoride
pesticides, fluoridated pharmaceuticals, processed foods made with
fluoridated water, and tea.