Fluoride can kill. Prepare yourself for the tragic fable of the
chemist, the water board, the dentist and his life.
By George Glasser
The Ecologist, September, 2000
Once, there was a dentist. His name was Lester. For many years,
like
all the other dentists he knew, Lester believed that fluoride
in the
drinking water was good for everyone. Like all the other dentists,
Lester had learned in dental school that fluoride reduces tooth
decay.
And, like all the other dentists, Lester believed that fluoride
was
fluoride.
Then, one day, he met a chemist and began discussing drinking
water
fluoridation.
The chemist asked what kind of fluoride was being used to fluoridate
the drinking water. Lester replied, "We are simply adjusting
the
fluoride level in the water by adding one part per million of,
well,
just fluoride."
"There is no such thing as "just fluoride," said the
chemist.
Lester
scratched his head. "But they told me that it was only fluoride
they
are adding to the water."
The chemist laughed heartily. "Fluorine is the most reactive,
electronegative element, and it's never found alone in nature,"
he
said. "There are many kinds of fluorides, for instance: calcium
fluoride is found naturally in water. Then there are other fluorides
such as lead fluoride, aluminium fluoride, etc. If you add fluoride
to the water, it has to be a compound. You can't just add fluoride
to
the water.
"So which one is it?" Lester felt silly. He didn't know.
The next day Lester went to the library to check the chemistry
books
and learned that calcium fluoride is, indeed, found naturally in
the
water. He also discovered that calcium fluoride is almost insoluble
and could not be easily absorbed by the body. And his friend the
chemist was quite right - there were innumerable fluoride compounds.
Now intrigued, Lester looked up some scientific studies about
water
fluoridation. He read that in laboratory tests, workers use a
very
pure grade of sodium fluoride and purified water to do their
research. He discovered that sodium fluoride is taken up by the
body
much more readily than calcium fluoride. His friend was right.
The
dentist wondered how anyone could say that calcium fluoride is
the
same as sodium fluoride.
The next day, Lester called his water department to ask if they
were
adding sodium fluoride or calcium fluoride to his drinking water.
The
Water Department (WD) manager said that they were adding a product
called silicofluorides to the water. The WD manager said they bought
a
very low grade product because it would be too expensive to use
a
good grade and, anyway, the public health people would not pay
for a
good quality calcium fluoride because, they said, fluoride is
fluoride, no matter where it comes from.
By now, Lester was
completely bewildered.
"Where do you buy these silicofluorides from?" he asked.
The WD
manager said that the silicofluorides, known as hexafluorosilicic
acid, are the toxic waste product from phosphate fertilizer
pollution
scrubbers.
The dentist was aghast. "You have to be crazy
putting that
stuff in the water!"
The water department manager agreed because, he said, the
hexafluorsilicic acid also contains other toxic substances such
as
arsenic, beryllium, mercury, lead, and many more. He said he didn't
drink the city water because many of the contaminants in the
fluoridation agent cause health problems. "For instance,"
he
said, "arsenic causes prostate, bladder, kidney, skin and
lung
cancers, and there is no safe level for arsenic."
Lester was appalled. He asked the manager why he did not stop
fluoridating the water with this pollution scrubber liquor. "And
why
would anyone add any amount of a known carcinogen to the water?"
Shrugging, the manager replied, "I'm just doing my job. The
public
health people have their agenda, and I have a family to feed."
After a sleepless night, Lester contemplated the fluoridation
dilemma
as he soaped himself in the shower. "They say they are simply
adjusting the level of natural fluoride in the water which
is
calcium fluoride, but they are using a pure grade of sodium
fluoride
and very pure water for the rat experiments in the laboratory.
But
they are adding toxic pollution scrubber liquor to my drinking
water!" It didn't make sense.
He called a man at the dental association and told him what he
had
learned. The man said coldly, "If you value your licence
to practice,
don't ever mention this subject again!"
Lester was shocked.
He had worked hard and was very proud of his practice and his
two
classic cars. He couldn't bear to lose them. He thought about
his
wife and family and how they would miss their luxury home with
its
four bathrooms and a jacuzzi, the private schools, and foreign
vacations.
After a while he made a decision. "We won't drink
the tap
water. We'll buy bottled water." But he was not a happy man
as he
walked into the reception room and greeted his first patient of
the
day.
Several months later he visited his friend the doctor for his
annual
check-up and was stunned to learn that he had prostate
cancer. He recalled the words of the water department
manager. "Arsenic causes prostate cancer."
Lester was shattered. He couldn"t understand it. Yet there
was a
reason. Despite taking care to drink only bottled water, Lester
didn't know that much more of the pollution-laced tap water is
absorbed through the skin from bathing and washing clothes.
Poor Lester!
Although, 91 percent of exposure to waterborne contaminants
is
known to occur via dermal absorption, no studies have ever been
done
to determine the toxicity of pollution scrubber liquor, the
fluoride
used in water fluoridation schemes.
George Glasser is an investigative journalist who focuses on
environmental issues.
Taken from The Ecologist, September 2000 Vol 30 No 6.
(www.theecologist.org )
DR. MERCOLA'S COMMENT: As my long-time readers know, I am no fan
of
water fluoridation.
There
was an actual debate between a pro-fluoridation dentist and one
of
the leading and most well-respected anti-fluoridation activists,
Dr.
Paul Connett, PhD, who is a Professor of Chemistry at St. Lawrence
University in Canton, NY. It was chaired by the Morris County
League
of Women Voters.
The reason that this was such a rare event is that the pro-
fluoridation forces have been sticking to a strict "No-Debate"
policy, saying that this lends credibility to the anti-fluoridation
cause. Can you imagine the Democrats refusing to debate the
Republicans (or vice-versa), because this would lend too much
credibility to the other party? Dr. Connett has been asking for
a pro-
fluoridation authority to debate him for four years and this is
the
first time anyone has accepted.
Be sure to visit Dr. Connett's website at www.fluoridealert.org.
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