Yesterday, the citizens of Juneau, Alaska received the welcomed news (see below) that, as of last Monday, fluoride is no longer going into their water supply. Hopefully in 2007, many more American, Australian, British, Canadian, Irish, Korean, Malaysian and New Zealand citizens will get the same welcome news. The house of cards of one of the biggest frauds ever perpetuated in public health is collapsing under the weight of new scientific evidence. For those of us who have closely followed the scientific literature, this has been apparent since the 1990s, but for those who haven’t, the issue of fluoride’s dangers, and the foolishness of deliberately adding this substance to the drinking water at 250 times the level found in mothers milk (1 ppm versus 0.004 ppm), was made clearly visible in the 500 page report of the National Research Council (2006).
It is not by chance that the ADA, the CDC, and the AWWA have gone out of their way to deny the significance of this report, because it represents the death blow to this foolish practice. The ADA on Nov 9 let the cat out of the bag by recommending that parents not give fluoridated water to babies, but sadly, too many journalists have played into the fluoridation promoters hands by not giving much coverage to the NRC report or the ADA recommendation.
As Dr. Robert Carton, a former scientist at the U.S. EPA wrote to me this morning, the NRC report “should be the centerpiece of every discussion, but most of the time it is not even mentioned...the NRC report changes everything.”
Our task is to get as many people as possible to read this report: citizens, public officials, scientists, and, of course, the media. Those who read this report with an unprejudiced mind will see that it is time (way past time) to end water fluoridation. In my view, there was no adequate margin of safety between the level at which fluoride is added (1 ppm) supposedly to fight tooth decay and the level (4 ppm) at which the EPA requires natural fluoride to be removed. Now that the NRC has called upon the EPA to lower this standard from 4 ppm, there is absolutely no way of protecting the whole population from dangerous exposures. To deny this is to demonstrate to the world either that you are more interested in protecting a policy than protecting the people, or you have little idea of the difference between a water concentration in (mg/liter) and a dose (mg/day). Barring accidents, a concentration can be controlled by engineers at the water plant, but no one can control the dose that each individual may receive, because people drink different amounts of water and get different amounts of fluoride from the multitude of sources which come at us each day. We are being overdosed on fluoride and it is time to stop this nonsense once and for all.
To get a paperback version of the NRC report ( “Fluoride in Drinking Water: A Scientific Review of EPA’s Standards”) order online at http://www.nap.edu/catalog/11571.html. With shipping it cost $55. That is the best investment any opponent of fluoridation could ever make. After reading just a few pages you will have the satisfaction of knowing that you will have read more on this topic than the vast majority of the ‘experts’ who vociferously promote this practice!
Now please read the “welcome news” from Juneau, Alaska.
City stops fluoridating water; traces will linger in some areas
Juneau empire (Juneau, Alaska)
January 17, 2007
http://www.juneauempire.com/stories/011707/loc_20070117024.shtml
Although Juneau authorities stopped putting fluoride into the city water system on Monday, the chemical will still be coming out of water taps for days or even months.
It all depends on location, the city said in an explanation on its Web site.
Areas near downtown and closer to water sources, such as the Highlands, the Cope Park area and the Governor's Mansion, should be fluoride-free within days.
Residents served by the million-gallon reservoir at Lena Point, in locations such as Randall Road, Cohen Drive and some parts of the Mendenhall Valley, are unlikely to be completely fluoride-free for a few months.
The Juneau Assembly on Dec. 11 directed the city manager to cease water fluoridation as of Monday.
